Writing
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6.0
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Born
September 16, 1908
Died
November 10, 1979 (age 71)
Born in
Vienna, Austria
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.

'38 - Vienna Before the Fall
as Author
1986

Student Gerber
as Writer, Novel
1981
Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes
as Himself, Writer
1978
Was bin ich?
as Self
1955

The Venus of Tivoli
as Writer
1953

Voice in the Wind
as Adaptation, Screenplay
1944

Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
as Writer
1937