Berthold Viertel

Berthold Viertel ( born June 28, 1885 in Vienna, † September 24, 1953 ) was a born, working in Austria, Germany, the USA and the UK Jewish writer, playwright, essayist, translator and film and theater director. His son was the screenwriter Peter Viertel.

Life and work

Through his friendship with Karl Kraus and Peter Altenberg quarter worked from 1910 to 1911 to Kraus ' The Torch with.

After the First World War Berthold Viertel Graf von Seebach was invited to act as a director at the Royal Theatre in Dresden. From 1918-21 district worked as a director in Dresden, and staged at the Playhouse, the world premiere of Walter Hasenclever Hereafter ( with Bruno Walter Iltz ) and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His poetry collection The railway was also in Dresden and was published in 1921. Similarly, the Bachantinnen of Euripides, the comedy The beautiful soul and the charity.

Appointments as a director and playwright took him to Dresden, Berlin (1924 Hans Kaltnekers " The Sister " at the Goethe- stage ), Zurich, Great Britain and the United States. Quarter of 1933 was an actor in Berlin when he later had to emigrate to the United States to France and from there. In New York, he was co-founded in 1944 by Wieland Herzfeld's Aurora -Verlag.

In 1947 he returned to Europe, first worked in London with the BBC, then from 1948 as a director in Zurich and in 1949 finally back in Vienna.

Quarter was a translator important plays of Tennessee Williams, he also at the Vienna Academy theater - among other things A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski with Curd Jürgens - staged. He was also known as a poet and author.

Berthold Viertel was 1918-1947 with Salka Viertel, born helmsman, married and had three sons with her. Since the summer of 1940, he lived with the actress Elisabeth Neumann, whom he married in 1949.

Quarter is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 104). In the 10th district of Vienna Favorites Berthold - quarter alley in 1959 named after him.

Filmography

Works

• The track. Poems. Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1913.
• The railway. Poems. Jakob Hegner, Hellerau 1921.
• The bread of charity. Narratives. Jakob Hegner, Hellerau 1927.
• Fear not! New poems. Barthold Fles, New York, 1941.
• The CV. Aurora - Verlag, New York, 1946.
• Seals and documents. Poetry, prose, autobiographical fragments. Kösel, Munich 1956.
• Writings on the theater. Kösel, Munich 1970.
• Overcoming of the Superman. Exile writings. Publisher of social criticism, Vienna 1989. ISBN 3-85115-104-6.
• Childhood of a cherub. Autobiographical fragments. Publisher of social criticism, Vienna 1991 ISBN. 3-85115-125-9.
• The gray cloth. Poems. Publisher of social criticism, Vienna 1994. ISBN 3-85115-174-7.