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George Tabori (né György Tábori; 24 May 1914 – 23 July 2007) was a Hungarian writer and theatre director.

George Tabori
George Tabori, Berlin 2003, photo by Oliver Mark
Born	György Tábori (1914-05-24)24 May 1914 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	23 July 2007(2007-07-23) (aged 93) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1950–2007
Spouses	Hannah Freund ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1954)​ Viveca Lindfors ​ ​ (m. 1954; div. 1972)​ Ursula Grützmacher-Tabori ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1984)​ Ursula Höpfner ​ ​ (m. 1986)​
Relatives	Paul Tabori (brother)

Life and career

Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father Kornél (Cornelius) was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori (writer and psychical researcher), managed to escape the Nazis.[1] As a young man, Tabori travelled to Berlin but was forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1935 because of his Jewish background. He first went to London, where he worked for the BBC and received British citizenship. In 1947 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a translator (mainly of works by Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch) and a screenwriter[2] including Alfred Hitchcock's movie I Confess (1953).

His first novel, Beneath The Stone, was published in America in 1945. In the late 1960s, 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 Cowen's Summertree. His play The Niggerlovers debuted in 1967 starring Morgan Freeman and Stacy Keach.[3] Two of Tabori's plays in English -- The Cannibals and Pinkville—were produced by Wynn Handman at the American Place Theatre in New York City from 1968 through 1970. His play The Prince was filmed by John Boorman as Leo the Last (1970) with Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw; the film won the Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in that year.

During his period in America, Tabori married Viveca Lindfors. In addition to his own child with Lindfors, Lena, Tabori adopted Lindfors' two sons, John and Kristoffer. Kristoffer later became an actor and Lena a publisher.

In 1971, Tabori moved to Germany, where his new emphasis was theater work, and mainly worked in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. His 1991 Goldberg Variations is a satirical farce based on Biblical stories which end in disaster.[4]

He died in Berlin, aged 93.[2]

Screenplays

• Thunder in the East (1951, based on the novel The Rage of the Vulture by Alan Moorehead)
• I Confess (1953, based on the play Nos deux consciences by Paul Anthelme Bourde)
• The Young Lovers (1954)
• The Journey (1959)
• No Exit (1962, based on the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Secret Ceremony (1968, based on the short story Ceremonia secreta by Marco Denevi)
• Parades (1972)

Film adaptations

• Crisis (1950, based on the short story The Doubters)
• Leo the Last (1970, based on the play The Prince)
• My Mother's Courage [de] (1995, based on an autobiographical story)
• Mein Kampf (2009, based on the play Mein Kampf)

Awards and honors

• 1983 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
• 1990 Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
• 2001 Kassel Literary Prize
• 2001 Nestroy Theatre Prize for Lifetime achievement

Marriages

• Hannah Freund (1942–1954; divorced)
• Viveca Lindfors (1954–1972; divorced); 1 stepson (Kristoffer Tabori)
• Ursula Grützmacher-Tabori (1976–1984; divorced)
• Ursula Höpfner (1985–2007; his death)

References

Further reading

• Feinberg, Anat (1999). Embodied memory: the theatre of George Tabori. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN 0-87745-686-0. OCLC 50416101.
• Russell, Susan. Masters thesis: BEYOND ALL TEARS: THE HOLOCAUST DRAMA OF GEORGE TABORI (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989)
• Weber, Carl (1996). DramaContemporary. Germany: plays by Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Georg Seidel, Klaus Pohl, Tankred Dorst, Elfriede Jelinek, Heiner Müller. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5280-3. OCLC 33162893.
• Martin Kagel, "Ritual Remembrance: George Tabori's The Cannibals in Transnational Perspective," in Martinson, Steven D. / Schulz, Renate A. (eds./Hrsg.), Transcultural German Studies / Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Building Bridges / Brücken bauen (Bern etc., Peter Lang, 2008) (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A: Kongressberichte, 94).

External links

• Obituary in The Times, 2 October 2007
• A list of plays in English (in English) (subscription required)
• A complete bibliography (in German)
• George Tabori at IMDb
• George Tabori at Playbill Vault (archive)
• George Tabori at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection

На других языках

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[de] George Tabori

George Tabori, geboren als György Tábori, (* 24. Mai 1914 in Budapest, Österreich-Ungarn; † 23. Juli 2007 in Berlin, Deutschland) war ein britischer Drehbuchautor, Schauspieler, Sprecher, Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Dramatiker und Theaterregisseur. Den Begriff „Regisseur“ lehnte er für sich als zu autoritär ab und bezeichnete sich stattdessen als „Spielmacher“.[1] Tabori wurde aufgrund seiner angenehmen Arbeitsweise vom Großteil seiner Schauspieler sehr geschätzt. In seinen Theaterstücken setzte er dem Grauen von Rassismus und Massenmord oft schwarzen Humor und absurde Komik entgegen. In den USA arbeitete er als Drehbuchautor unter anderem mit Alfred Hitchcock und mit Bertolt Brecht zusammen. 1971 kehrte er nach Mitteleuropa zurück. Dort erreichte er ab 1986 in Wien (Der Kreis, Burgtheater) und seit 1999 in Berlin beim Berliner Ensemble den Höhepunkt seiner Theaterkunst. Viele Theaterfreunde schätzten den in seinen letzten Jahren „dienstältesten Theatermacher der Welt“ als den inoffiziellen „Theaterkönig“.[2]

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- [en] George Tabori

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[ru] Табори, Джордж

Джордж Табори (венг. Tábori György, англ. George Tabori; 24 мая 1914, Будапешт, Австро-Венгрия, — 23 июля 2007, Берлин, Германия) — американский, немецкий и австрийский писатель, драматург, сценарист, журналист, театральный режиссёр, переводчик венгерского происхождения с еврейскими корнями. Работал в Великобритании, США, Германии, Австрии, писал на немецком и английском языках.

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