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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.
Filmography
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Movies 9
Writer 8
self 2
TV Shows 1
'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)
Student Gerber (1981)
Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes (1978)
Hier bin ich, mein Vater (1970)
Panoptikum (1965)
Kaiser Joseph und die Bahnwärterstochter (1963)
Was bin ich? (1955)
The Venus of Tivoli (1953)
Voice in the Wind (1944)
Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1937)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1908-09-16
Deathday1979-11-10 (71 years old)
Birth NameFriedrich Ephraim Kantor-Berg
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
FatherAlfred Kantor
MotherTerezie Kantorová
SiblingsIlse Daus, Sidonie Kantor
CitizenshipsCisleithania, Czechoslovakia, United States of America
AwardsGrand Austrian State Prize for Literature, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Berufstitel Professor
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