To commemorate the 83rd anniversary of Conrad Veidt's passing, there's a great new interview with the founder of the Conrad Veidt Society, Jim Rathlesberger, over on Monica Ilie-Prica's website. I highly encourage anyone interested in the history of the CVS and Veidt's legacy among various generations of fans to check it out.
I would love to do a longer post about the Society one day, but Mr. Rathlesberger gives a fairly comprehensive account of the CVS's founding, its mission and activities in the interview. Since I first read about the Society in Conrad Veidt on Screen, I've wondered if there's a place for a more conventional, organized fan space dedicated to Connie. We're scattered across various platforms and cross communication is relatively infrequent, despite the ultra-connected internet age we live in.
You can read Monica Ilie-Prica's interview with Jim Rathlesberger here.
And to celebrate Connie's life and work, go watch one of his films! There is a Youtube playlist and I just curated a list of several titles on the Internet Archive here as well.
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