!!!Torberg, Friedrich eigentlich F. Kantor-Berg

b. Vienna, Sept. 16, 1908, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 10, 1979, narrative writer, essayist, critic and 
translator. Until 1938 as journalist and theatre critic in Prague and 
Vienna, fled via Switzerland to France and in 1940 to the USA, where 
he lived as a script author in Hollywood and New York. In 1951 
returned to Vienna; was one of the founders of the satirical monthly 
magazine  "Forum" in 1954, its publisher until 1965. Publisher of the 
legacy of F. von  Herzmanovsky-Orlando ("Collected works", 4 vols., 
1957-1963). His popularity was mainly founded on the novel "Der 
Schueler Gerber hat absolviert" (1930, 1954 under the title "Der 
Schueler Gerber"), in which he unfolds the psychogram of a high school 
student who ultimately is driven to suicide. In two volumes about 
"Tante Jolesch" ("Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes 
in Anekdoten", 1975, and "Die Erben der Tante Jolesch", 1978) he 
remembers the long-vanished world of the Jewish bourgeoisie after 
World War I in a very satirical, pungent manner. Awarded the Austrian 
Decoration for Science and Art in 1976 and the Grand Austrian State 
Prize in 1979.

!Further works
Novels: ...und glauben, es waere die Liebe, 1932; Die 
Mannschaft, 1935; Hier bin ich, mein Vater, 1948; Die zweite 
Begegnung, 1950; Suesskind von Trimberg, 1972. - Reviews, parodies, 
memoirs: PPP (pamphlets, parodies, post-scripta), 1962; Das fuenfte 
Rad am Thespiskarren, 3 vols., 1966-1967; Pegasus im Joch, 1983; Der 
letzte Ritt des Jockeys Matteo, 1985. - Translator of E. Kishon.

!Literature
F. Tichy, F. T. Ein Leben aus der Welt von einst, 1990; 
idem, F. T. Ein Leben in Widerspruechen, 1995; NOeB.



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