Hans Weigel

Hans Weigel (1908-1991), the son of a Jewish factory director from Vienna, studied law in Hamburg and Berlin, worked for a Viennese publisher, then wrote for the city's cabarets. He took refuge in Switzerland in 1938, returned in 1945 and became an influential theatre critic, an avowed opponent of Brecht. He had the first texts of young authors published in the yearbooks he edited from 1951 to 1954, translated Molière into alexandrines, adapted Nestroy and hosted a radio programme on the Austrian German language.

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• NovelUnvollendete SymphonieHans Weigel · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature