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Torberg, Friedrich, 1908-1979

LC control no.n 81055314
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LC classificationPT2621.A44
Personal name headingTorberg, Friedrich, 1908-1979
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Variant(s)Kantor-Berg, Friedrich, 1908-
Berg, Friedrich Kantor-, 1908-1979
Torberg, Frederick, 1908-1979
טורברג, פרידריך, 1908-1979
Birth date1908-09-16
Death date[1979-11-10, 1979-02-10]
Place of birthVienna (Austria)
Place of deathVienna (Austria)
Profession or occupationAuthors
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Found inHis Der Schüler Gerber hat obsolviert, 1930.
His Apropos, 1981: t.p. (Friedrich Torberg) jkt. (d. Feb. 10, 1979)
Voice in the wind [MP] 1944: credits (screenplay by Frederick Torberg)
IMDb, Aug. 18, 2010 (Friedrich Torberg; b. Sept. 16, 1908, Vienna, Austria; d. Nov. 10, 1979, Vienna, Austria; writer)
Wikipedia website, January 22. 2018: individual entry (Friedrich Torberg is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France and, later, after bing invited by the New York PEN-Club as one of "Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi Writers" to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and then for Time magazine in New York City. In 1951 he returned to Vienna, where he remained for the rest of his life. Torberg is known best for his satirical writings in fiction and nonfiction, as well as his translations into German of the stories of Ephraim Kishon, which remain the standard German language version of Kishon's work)
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