It is well known that German artists and intellectuals fled to the USA during the Second World War. The Thomas Mann House and the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles bear witness to this. Little is known, however, about the women in exile. We want to change that.

Together with the successful writer and Villa Aurora alumna Tanja Kinkel, Étienne Roeder traces Marta Feuchtwanger in the first episode. Marta was a grande dame. She loved extravagant disguises and long party nights and made her shared home with the writer Lion Feuchtwanger the center of the artistic scene.

Whether in Munich, Berlin, on the run in France or, at last, in exile in Los Angeles; She was hands-on and athletic and saved her husband's life more than once. And she could tell stories - about her turtle with a sense of poetry or how she freed Lion from the prison camp.

Étienne Roeder, born in 1983 in Berlin, studied cultural anthropology, Latin American and Portuguese studies. For a time, the author of reportages and radio features lived in Portugal and Colombia. In 2018 he won the Åke Blomström Award of the EBU.