Stephan and Alfred Zweig, 1900.....Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942) Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world...... Zweig and his second wife, Lotte Altmann, committed suicide together as refugees in Brazil in February 1942....here he is, in happier times in Vienna, standing behind his older brother, Alfred (1879 - 1977)....