Friedrich Torberg
Writing
- Born
- September 16, 1908 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- November 10, 1979 (age 71)
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Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France and, later, after being invited by the New York PEN-Club as one of "Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers" (along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others) to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and then for Time magazine in New York City. In 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he remained for the rest of his life.
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Torberg is known best for his satirical writings in fiction and nonfiction, as well as his translations into German of the stories of Ephraim Kishon, which remain the standard German language version of Kishon's work.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 1986'38 - Vienna Before the Fall Author
- 1981Student Gerber Writer, Novel
- 1978Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes Writer
- 1953The Venus of Tivoli Writer
- 1944Voice in the Wind Adaptation, Screenplay
- 1937Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld Writer
Acting1
- 1978Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes as Himself