!!!Viertel, Berthold

b. Vienna, June 28, 1885, 
d. Vienna, Sept. 24, 1953, writer, dramaturge, director, essayist and 
translator. Personally knew K.  Kraus and P.  Altenberg, 1910/1911 was 
on the permanent staff of the "Fackel" magazine, 1912-1914 director 
and dramaturge at the Vienna "Freie Volksbuehne" theatre, 1914-1917 
military service, then theatre critic and feuilletonist at the "Prager 
Tagblatt" newspaper (contact with F.  Kafka and M.  Brod). 1918 
married the actress Salomea Steuermann, known as Salka Viertel 
(1889-1978). 1918-1923 director in Dresden and Berlin, 1923 founded 
the expressionist theatre "Die Truppe" in Berlin, 1925-1928 worked in 
theatre and film in Germany and 1928-1947 in the USA and Great 
Britain. 1947 returned to Europe, 1948 worked as director in Zurich 
and 1949-1953 in Vienna, Berlin, Zurich and at the Salzburg Festival: 
famous productions of plays by T. Williams' ("The Glass Menagerie", "A 
Streetcar named Desire ") in his own German translation at the Vienna 
Akademietheater.

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Edition: Annotated edition in 4 vols., ed. by K. Kaiser, 1989ff.

!Literature
B. V. Zur 80. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstags, 1965; S. 
Viertel, Das unbelehrbare Herz, 1970; J. Mayerhoefer (ed.), B. V. 
Regisseur und Dichter (1885-1953), 1975; S. Bolbecher (ed.), Traum von 
der Realitaet - B. V., 1998.



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