- George Tabori
- George Tabori (
George TaboriMay 24 1914 –July 23 2007 ) was a Hungarian writer andtheater director .Born in
Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died inAuschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis.As a young man George Tabori went to
Berlin but was forced to leave Hitler'sGermany in 1935 due to his Jewish background. He first went toLondon , where he worked for theBBC and received British citizenship. In 1947 he immigrated to theUnited States , where he became atranslator (mainly of works byBertolt Brecht andMax Frisch ) and ascreenwriter [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/25/1988028.htm?section=entertainment Reuters via ABC News Australia, "Playwright George Tabori dies" 25 July 2007] ] (for example forAlfred Hitchcock 's 1953 movie "I Confess").In the late 1960's Tabori brought his own and the work of Brecht to many colleges and universities. At the
University of Pennsylvania he taught classes in dramatic writing which resulted in Werner Liepolt's "The Young Master Dante" and Ron Cowan's "Summertree". Two of Tabori's plays in English--The Cannibals and Pinkville--were produced by Wynn Handman at The American Place Theater inNew York City from 1968 through 1970.In 1971, Tabori returned to
Germany , where his new emphasis was theater work. Since then he mainly worked in Berlin,Munich , andVienna .Marriages
*Ursula Höpfner (1985 - 2007; his death)
*Viveca Lindfors (1954 - 1972) (divorced)
*Hannah Freund (1942 - 1951) (divorced)References
Further reading
*"Embodied memory : the theatre of George Tabori", 1999, ISBN 0877456860
*"DramaContemporary : Germany : plays by Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Georg Seidel, Klaus Pohl, Tankred Dorst, Elfriede Jelinek, Heiner Müller", 1996, ISBN 0801852803External links
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2569232.ece Obituary in "The Times", 2 October 2007]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/tabori-george.html A list of plays in English] en icon
* [http://www.literaturhaus.at/buch/buch/rez/gtabori/bio.html A complete bibliography] de icon
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846068/bio IMDb bio]
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