Description London, 1934.
Her specialist fields are 18th-19th-and 20th-century literary studies as well as cultural history & biography..
Since leaving academia, Daria has worked as an independent scholar and writer.
Between 2000 and 2002 she was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in German Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich.
She was Lecturer in German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford for fifteen years until 2010.
In 1992 she moved to London, where she still lives.
About the Author Daria Santini was born in Rome and studied in Italy and Germany.
Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the migr s from Hitler\'s Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.
Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great Actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, become well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market.
Description London, 1934
