!!!Rismondo, Piero

b. Trieste, Italy, Feb. 15, 1905, 
d. Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Feb. 9, 1989. writer and journalist. Raised 
in Vienna, where he began his career as a journalist in the 1920s. 
Left Austria in 1938; 1945-52 director of the Teatro Verdi in Rijeka, 
Croatia; returned to Vienna in 1952. On the staff of the  newspaper 
"Die Presse" from 1954 to 1970: cultural and literary editor 
1954-61, 1961-70 theatre critic and feuilletonist. Awarded the 
Austrian State Prize for Journalism in 1979, the Austrian State Prize 
for Literary Translation in 1986.

!Works
Dramas: Raimund, 1937; Der Herr Hofrat, 1947; Das unsichtbare 
Volk, 1947; Michaelerplatz, 1966. - Einfaelle und Ausfaelle, 1978 
(Essays);   "... Der Zeit am Wort den Puls zu fuehlen ...", 
1999 (Feuilletons, criticism and articles, edited by W. A. 
Greinert). - Translations of plays by Goldoni and Pirandello.



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