!!!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.

!Further works
novels, dramas, stories.

!Literature
P. Radtke, M wie Tabori. Erfahrungen eines behinderten 
Schauspielers, 1987; J. W. Gronius and W. Kaessens, T., 1989; G. 
Ohngemach, G. T., 1989; B. Marschall, Verstrickt in Geschichte(n), 
1991; B. Sternthal, Der Kreis: 1987-1990, doctoral thesis, Vienna 
1992; A. Welker (ed.), G. T. Portraits, 1993; H.-P. Bayerdoerfer and 
J. Schoenert (eds.), Theater gegen das Vergessen 1997; J. Struempel 
(ed.), G. T., 1997; P. Hoeyng (ed.), verkoerperte Geschichtsentwuerfe: 
G. T. Theatherarbeit, 1998.


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