About

Known credits:
9
Birthday:
1908-09-16
Place of birth:
Vienna, Austria
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Friedrich Torberg

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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

Acting
1978 Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes Actor Himself N/A
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Writing
1986 '38 - Vienna Before the Fall Writing Author 59
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1981 Student Gerber Writing Novel 59
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1981 Student Gerber Writing Writer 59
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1978 Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes Writing Writer N/A
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1953 The Venus of Tivoli Writing Writer N/A
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1944 Voice in the Wind Writing Screenplay 58
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1944 Voice in the Wind Writing Adaptation 58
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1937 Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld Writing Writer N/A
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