Friedrich Torberg

Friedrich Torberg

Born: September 16, 1908
Died: November 10, 1979
in Vienna, Austria
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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.

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.

Movies for Friedrich Torberg...

Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Title: Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Episodic film based on the book by and starring Friedrich Torberg.
bee
Title: Was bin ich?
Character: self
Released: January 2, 1955
Type: TV