Egon friedell biography

  • Egon Friedell (born Egon Friedmann; 21 January , in Vienna – 16 March , in Vienna) was a.
  • Egon Friedell was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic.
  • Egon Friedell (born Friedmann) was a well-known Viennese personality during the early twentieth century.

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    Egon Friedell

    Egon Friedell (born Egon Friedmann; 21 January , in Vienna – 16 March , in Vienna) was an Austriancultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Before , he was also known by his pen name Egon Friedländer.

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    Ostensibly a sequel to H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Published in German in Translated by Eddy C. Bertin, and published in English in by Daw Books. All page numbers from this mass market paperback edition, ISBN
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      • Author’s Introduction: An Extraordinary Correspondence (pp. )
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      • To Refresh One’s Memory: A Short Lesson for the Ignorant and for Those Who Think They Know Better (p. 37)
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        Friedell, Egon

        FRIEDELL, EGON , pseudonym of Egon Friedmann (–), Austrian playwright and cultural historian. Born in Vienna, Friedell studied there and at Heidelberg. A witty and versatile bohemian, he not only wrote plays but often acted in them, particularly at Max Reinhardt's theaters in Berlin and Vienna. Among the plays he wrote was Die Judastragoedie (). Beside his occupation as drama critic, theater director, and cabaret artist, he wrote essays and satires for popular dailies as well as Karl Kraus' Fackel, the Schaubühne and the Neue Wiener Journal. Friedell's magnum opus was the three-volume Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit (; A Cultural History of the Modern Age, –32). Ranging from the Reformation to World War i, this highly original work is no solemn historical study but a brilliant, aphoristic, and sometimes ironic survey of world history and culture. He also wrote Kulturgeschichte des Altertums (2 vols., –49) and Das Jesusproblem (). Friedell, who conve

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        Egon Friedell

        Egon Friedell (born Friedmann) was a well-known Viennese personality during the early twentieth century. His eccentricity and wide-ranging interests earned him such labels as “universal man”, “Viennese original”, and “consummate man of letters”. A friend of many well-known authors and a member of the coffeehouse circle that included writers Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, he was an actor, cabaret director and scriptwriter, aphorist, feuilletonist, and theater critic. Friedell was not merely interested in socializing and entertainment, however. During his entire adult life he was also devoted to acting in serious roles, also to translating and to scholarship, primarily historical, but also literary and satirical, philosophical and religious. After earning a doctorate from…

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