Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Film
1978
Die Tante Jolesch oder Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Episodic film based on the book by and starring Friedrich Torberg.
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Born
1908-09-16 · 71 yrs
Died
1979-11-10
From
Vienna, Austria
Known for
Writing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) 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 being invited by the New York PEN-Club as one of "Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers" (along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others) to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and then for Time magazine in New York City.…
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