In this city in the 1930s, the meteorologist Wilhelm Gustlo f organized a local Nazi party before being shot by the young Jew David Frankfurter, an event described in Gunter Grass's novel Crabwalk.
In this city in the 1930s, the meteorologist Wilhelm Gustlo f organized a local Nazi party before being shot by the young Jew David Frankfurter, an event described in Gunter Grass's novel Crabwalk. In a 1929 disputation in this city, Ernst Cassirer challenged Martin Heidegger on his concept of "thrownness," inspiring Heidegger to write Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Ernst Kirchner (KEERK-ner) spent the last 20 years of his life painting in this city, where he committed suicide. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in one of the 40 tuberculosis sanatoriums constructed in this city, which was also the site of the  ctional Berghof (BAIRG-ho f) sanatorium visited by Hans Castorp in Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. Klaus Schwab (SHVAHB) founded an organization that uses a  ve-day annual meeting in this city to bring together business elites and world political leaders. For 10 points, name this ski resort in the Swiss Alps that is home to the annual World Economic Forum.
In this city in the 1930s, the meteorologist Wilhelm Gustlo f organized a local Nazi party before being shot by the young Jew David Frankfurter, an event described in Gunter Grass's novel Crabwalk.
Davos