!!!Salten, Felix eigentlich Siegmund Salzmann

Salten, Felix (real name: Siegmund Salzmann), b. Budapest 
(Hungary), Sept. 6, 1869, d. Zurich (Switzerland), Oct. 8, 1945, 
writer, feature writer and critic at the Vienna Burgtheater. Belonged 
to the  "Jung-Wien" group, 1927-1933 president of the Austrian  P.E.N. 
Club, emigrated to Switzerland in 1939. With "Bambi" (1923, made into 
a film in 1942 by W. Disney) S. exerted considerable influence on the 
modern animal story; thought to be the author of "Josefine 
Mutzenbacher" (1906), an erotic novel on the life of a Viennese 
prostitute.

!Further works
Novels: Herr Wenzel auf Rehberg und sein Knecht Kaspar 
Dinckel, 1907; Olga Frohgemuth, 1910; Martin Overbeck, 1927. - Novels 
about animals: 15 Hasen, 1929; Florian. Das Pferd des Kaisers, 1933; 
Bambis Kinder, 1940; Djibi, das Kaetzchen, 1945. - Essays: 
Wurstelprater, 1911; Das Burgtheater, 1922. - Edition: Gesammelte 
Werke in Einzelausgaben, 6 vols., 1928-1932.

!Literature
L. Pouh, Wr. Literatur und Psychoanalyse: Felix Doermann, 
Jakob Julius David and Felix Salten, 1997; OeBL.


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