Tabori, George#

b. Budapest (Hungary), May 24, 1914, writer and director. 1936 emigrated to Great Britain, 1947 moved to the USA; student of L. Strasberg, whose acting philosophy he later brought to the German-speaking countries. Met B. Brecht, T. and H. Mann, T. W. Adorno and A. Schoenberg. First novels and dramas in English, film scripts e.g. for A. Hitchcock ("I Confess", 1953). From 1956 own theatre productions, 1966 set up the theatre group "The strolling players"; 1969 in Berlin, then worked as director in Germany; from 1986-1999 in Vienna. First productions at the Vienna Akademietheater (among them his own work, "Mein Kampf" in 1987); 1987-1990 founded and managed the theatre group "Der Kreis" at the Vienna Schauspielhaus; subsequently worked again as director at the Burgtheater and Akademietheater until 1999 (mostly his own plays, e.g. "Weismann und Rotgesicht", 1990; "Die Goldberg-Variationen", 1991; "Die 25. Stunde", 1994; "Die Ballade vom Wiener Schnitzel", 1996; "Purgatorium", 1999) as well as in Germany, followed C. Peymann to Berlin to become one of the directors of the Berlin Ensemble theatre in 1999. 1988 awarded the J. Kainz Medal, 1992 first non-German native speaker to receive the Georg Buechner Prize, 1997 awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.

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