Felice Hardy

YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2023 EVENT

FELICE HARDY: THE TENNIS CHAMPION WHO ESCAPED THE NAZIS 
Westlands, Wheeldon Suite 1

 Liesl Herbst, Austrian National Tennis champion, fled Nazi occupation with her family - this is the moving story of their escape and of what happened to those left behind In 1930, at the age of twenty-six, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David and their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports and rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl and her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother and daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon. This moving story of escape and survival is told by Liesl’s granddaughter Felice. It is as much a search for the author’s own identity as for her own children and grandchildren to ensure that their remarkable family history is never lost again.

Tickets: £9
Footlights: Discount applies

A £1.50 ticket levy is included in all stated ticket prices.

Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.