Casa Stefan Zweig

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The Casa Stefan Zweig is a building in Petrópolis, Brazil. It was the last home of the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig. It was a house where Zweig and his second wife Lotte (née Charlotte Elisabeth Altmann) committed suicide together on February 22, 1942. Zweig also completed his autobiography The World of Yesterday there.

In 2006, it was transformed into a non-profit organisation by a group of friends and admirers of Zweig, aiming to create a museum devoted to Stefan Zweig.

The first president of the association Casa Stefan Zweig was the Brazilian journalist and biographer of Stefan Zweig, Alberto Dines. For helping to establish this museum, Dines received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award in 2006.