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    Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. He worked...
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    The Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal (until 2002 named Friedrich Torberg Medal) is an award given by the Vienna Israelite Community. It is awarded...
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  • Vienna from 1954 to 1995, founded by Friedrich Hansen-Loeve, Felix Hubalek, Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Friedrich Torberg with the financial and logistical...
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    performed his works. The initiators were the publicists Hans Weigel and Friedrich Torberg as well as the Burgtheater director Ernst Haeussermann. Bertolt Brecht's...
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    Other coffee house poets include Arthur Schnitzler, Alfred Polgar, Friedrich Torberg, and Egon Erwin Kisch. Famous writer and poet Peter Altenberg even...
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    substitution of margarine for butter in the baking of the cake. The author Friedrich Torberg, who was a frequent guest at both establishments, served as a witness...
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    Axelrod, Lauren. "Ancient Digger Archaeology". Retrieved 2022-12-07. Friedrich Torberg "Kaffeehaus war überall" (1982) pp 8. Helmut Luther "Warum Kaffeetrinken...
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    critics like Heimito von Doderer, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Hilde Spiel, Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel. After the closing of the Café Herrenhof in 1961,...
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    Karel Schwarzenberg (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Verdienstorden – in Dresden, Saxony. In 2015, he received the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal. In 2021, he received the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise...
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  • co-owner to the cultural journal FORVM in Vienna, in 1965 he followed Friedrich Torberg as owner and chief editor, changing the name to NEUES FORVM. Nenning...
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    Gerhard Roth (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer. Roth was born in Graz. The son of a medical practitioner, Roth, too, originally wanted...
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    Wolfgang Petritsch (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Wolfgang Petritsch (born 26 August 1947) is an Austrian diplomat who served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1999 to 2002. Petritsch...
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    kulturelle Leben in Wien". https://utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/1675 Friedrich Torberg "Kaffeehaus war überall" (1982) pp 8. Wolfram Siebeck "Die Kaffeehäuser...
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    Andreas Maislinger (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and former...
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  • Somerset Maugham) Der Schüler Gerber [de] (1981) — (based on a novel by Friedrich Torberg) Tatort: Mord in der Oper (1981, TV series episode) Brigitta (1982...
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    (1819–1895), composer Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935), music theorist Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), U.N secretary-general...
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    writers Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Anton Kuh and Franz Werfel. Friedrich Torberg, who witnessed the German invasion ("Anschluss") in Prague, did not...
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    Carl Sternheim Robert Louis Stevenson J.R.R. Tolkien Ernst Toller Friedrich Torberg B. Traven Leon Trotsky Kurt Tucholsky Mark Twain Voltaire Jakob Wassermann...
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  • 1944 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley and written by Friedrich Torberg, based on a story written by Arthur Ripley. The drama features Francis...
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    when writers like Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch and Friedrich Torberg decided to use them as places of work and socializing. Celebrated...
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  • an Austrian statesman. Sara Telek (born 1988), football referee. Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer and journalist. Maria von Trapp (1905–1987), guitarist...
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    Ute Bock (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Ute Bock (27 June 1942 – 19 January 2018) was an Austrian educator who was known for her projects helping asylum seekers. Bock was born in Linz. After...
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    Organization. In 2013, Clemens Hellsberg received the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Viennese Israelite...
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    first café in Vienna". www.wilanow-palac.pl. Retrieved 2019-09-27. Friedrich Torberg "Kaffeehaus war überall" (1982) p. 8. Helmut Luther "Warum Kaffeetrinken...
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    Terezija Stoisits (category Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal recipients)
    Terezija Stoisits (pronounced [ˈtɛrɛzija ˈstɔjʃitɕ]; born 14 November 1958 in Stinatz, Austria) is an Austrian politician of the Green Party. She served...
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  • winner Franziska Tausig (1895–1989), Holocaust survivor and memoirist Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna...
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    example Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Jakob Wassermann, Theodor Herzl and Friedrich Torberg, spent their summer holidays in the small alpine village. After the...
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    that his death was an accident, suicide or murder. Austrian writer Friedrich Torberg later dedicated the poem "Auf den Tod eines Fußballspielers" ("On...
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    Alexander Roda Roda, Joseph Roth, Johannes Urzidil, Sándor Márai and Friedrich Torberg. Other important contributors were: Hans Bauer, Benjamin M. Bloch...
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  • Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Egon Erwin Kisch, Friedrich Torberg, Oskar Baum, Johannes Urzidil, Felix Weltsch and Paul Leppin by some...
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