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Felix Salten (German: [ˈzaltn̩]; 6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna.

Felix Salten
Felix Salten, ca. 1910
BornSiegmund Salzmann
(1869-09-06)6 September 1869
Pest, Austria-Hungary
Died8 October 1945(1945-10-08) (aged 76)
Zurich, Switzerland
Resting placeIsraelitischer Friedhof (Friesenberg), Fluntern, Zurich, Switzerland
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustro-Hungarian
Notable worksThe Hound of Florence
Bambi, a Life in the Woods
Bambi's Children
SpouseOttilie Metzl
ChildrenPaul
Anna-Katharina
RelativesHans Rehmann (son-in-law)
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Life and death


Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann on 6 September 1869 in Pest, Austria-Hungary. His father was Fülöp Salzmann, the telegraph office's clerk in Pest; his mother was Maria Singer.[1] He was the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. When he was four weeks old, his family relocated to Vienna, Austria, as many Jews did after the Imperial government had granted full citizenship rights to Jews in 1867.

When his father went bankrupt, the sixteen-year-old Salten quit school and began working for an insurance agency. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. He became part of the "Young Vienna" movement (Jung-Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic for Vienna's press (Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, Zeit). In 1900, he published his first collection of short stories. In 1901, he initiated Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret Jung-Wiener Theater Zum lieben Augustin.

He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. In 1906, Salten went to Ullstein as an editor in chief of the B.Z. am Mittag and the Berliner Morgenpost, but relocated to Vienna some months later. He wrote also film scripts and librettos for operettas. In 1927 he became president of the Austrian P.E.N. club as successor of Arthur Schnitzler.

His best remembered work is Bambi (1923). It was intended by Salten as a parable of the dangers and persecution faced by Jews in Europe.[2] A translation in English was published by Simon & Schuster in 1928, and became a Book-of-the-Month Club success. In 1933, he sold the film rights to the American director Sidney Franklin for only $1,000, and Franklin later transferred the rights to the Walt Disney studios, which formed the basis of the animated film, Bambi (1942).

Life in Austria became perilous for Jews during the 1930s. In Germany, Adolf Hitler had Salten's books banned in 1936. Two years later, after Germany's annexation of Austria, Salten moved to Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, and spent his final years there. Felix Salten died on 8 October 1945, at the age of 76. He is buried at Israelitischer Friedhof Unterer Friesenberg.

Salten married actress Ottilie Metzl (1868–1942) in 1902, and had two children: Paul (1903–1937) and Anna Katharina (1904–1977), who married Swiss actor Hans Rehmann. He composed another book based on the character Bambi, titled Bambi’s Children: The Story of a Forest Family (1939). His stories Perri and The Hound of Florence inspired the Disney films Perri (1957) and The Shaggy Dog (1959), respectively.

Salten was himself an avid hunter.[3][4]

Salten is now considered the probable author of a successful erotic novel, Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself published anonymously in 1906, filled with social criticism.[5]


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References


  1. "familysearch.org - Hungary - Pest - Jewish birth registers - Siegmund Salzmann - 1869. Sep 6".
  2. Ferguson, Donna (25 December 2021). "Bambi: cute, lovable, vulnerable ... or a dark parable of antisemitic terror?". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  3. Sax, Boria (2001), The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in World Myth, Legend, and Literature, ABC-CLIO, p. 146, ISBN 1-5760-7612-1
  4. Jessen, Norbert (2012-02-26). "Israel: Zu Besuch bei den Erben von Bambi". WELT (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  5. Eddy, Beverley Driver (2010). Felix Salten: Man of Many Faces. Riverside (Ca.): Ariadne Press. pp. 111–114. ISBN 978-1-57241-169-2.

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На других языках


- [en] Felix Salten

[ru] Зальтен, Феликс

Феликс Зальтен (нем. Felix Salten, до 1911 года — Зигмунд Зальцман, нем. Siegmund Salzmann; 6 сентября 1869 года, Пешт, Австро-Венгрия — 8 октября 1945 года, Цюрих, Швейцария) — австро-венгерский писатель-прозаик, журналист и критик, широко известный благодаря своему роману «Бэмби» (нем. Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde), опубликованному в 1923 году.



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