| LC control no. | n 86818271 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Feld, Friedrich, 1902-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Rosenfeld, Friedrich, 1902- Rosenfeld, F. (Friedrich), 1902-1987 Rosenfeld, Fritz, 1902-1987 Feld, F., 1902-1987 Feld, P., 1902-1987 פלד, פ. |
| Birth date | 19021205 |
| Death date | 19871212 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Bexhill (England) |
| Affiliation | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Journalists Translators |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | nuc85-67334: His Mistr z Mohuče, c1972 (hdg. on CaOTP rept.: Rosenfeld, Friedrich, 1902- ; usage: Friedrich Feld [i.e. F. Rosenfeld]) LC data base, 4/7/86 (hdg.: Rosenfeld, Friedrich, 1902- ; usages: Friedrich Feld; Fritz Rosenfeld) ha-Ḥamor Yaḳ, 1975: t.p. (F. Feld [voc.]) German children's and youth literature in exile 1933-1950, 2001: page 74 (Friedrich Fedd (recte Friedrich Rosenfeld, 1902-1987); born December 5, 1902 in Vienna; died December 12, 1987 in Bexhill, UK; Friedrich Rosenfeld was born and educated in Vienna, where he studied German and English literature and art history; during his student days he wrote book reviews and became a theater and film critic for several Viennese journals and newspapers; after graduation he worked for the leftist newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung; when the newspaper was banned in 1934, Rosenfeld moved to Prague, where he made his living as a writer, as the literary representative of an American film company, and as the theater correspondent for a Croatian newspaper; his serialized stories for adults were published in several Eruopean newspapers; during this time he also had two books for children published; in 1939, Friedrich Rosenfeld emigrated to the United Kingdom; after a brief internment on the Isle of Man, he made a living as a metal turner before landing a job translating German and Czech news into English for a radio agency; his association with British new agencies lasted until his retirement in 1962 from the BBC; in 1948 he became a British citizen; during the late 1940s he resumed writing children's books in German; after his retirement, he settled in Bexhill where he contined to write children's stories, radio plays for both children and adults, plays, and occasional journalistic pieces; his children's books, which appeared under the pseddonym Friedrich Feld, were widely translated; footnote at bottom of page: "This author was unable to find out if Friedrich Feld was a pen name only, or if Rosenfeld officially changed his surname to Feld in the UK.") |
| Associated language | ger eng |
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