Geza Silberer

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Geza Silberer (born December 1, 1876 in Werschetz , Austria-Hungary ; died April 5, 1938 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer who wrote under the pseudonym Sil-Vara .

Life

Geza Silberer was the son of the dentist Salomon Silberer (1842-1922), his older sister was the sculptor Rosa Silberer (1873-1942), she was murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto , as were his mother, his brother Siegfried, his brother Marcel and his Sister Paula victim of the Holocaust . After middle school he went to England at the age of 18. Through the mediation of Theodor Herzl , he was able to publish newspaper articles in the Wiener Neue Freie Presse . He became a permanent contributor to the newspaper and, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, succeeded Max Bach as London correspondent not only for the Neue Freie Presse, but also for other German-language newspapers. His collection of articles on English Statesmen has been translated into several languages. Since 1904, he has also written plays and prose under his pseudonym.

During the First World War he was a soldier and in May 1915 a war correspondent on the Galician front . On behalf of the “Neue Freie Presse” he wrote the “Diary of a Viennese Landsturmmannes”. As a lieutenant, he became a consultant in the kuk war press quarter and in 1917/18 he was a press attaché at the Austro-Hungarian embassy in Stockholm , where he analyzed the Anglo-Saxon press. He also edited a collection of letters from Austrian soldiers who were captured in Russia.

After the end of the monarchy in 1918, he participated as a ghostwriter in the memoirs of Ludwig Windischgraetz . He continued to write plays for the tabloid theater and also dealt with the new medium of film. His play Girl Years of a Queen was filmed in 1936 by Erich Engel in the National Socialist German Reich.

The Silvaraweg in Döbling was named after him in 1966.

Works (selection)

English statesmen (1916)
Why Doesn't Peace Come About (1932)
  • Baby's love story. Narratives . Strasbourg: Singer, 1904
  • View from the Kahlenberg . 1907
  • Trixie . Vienna, Huber, 1911
  • London walks . Munich: G. Müller, 1914
  • A Viennese land storm man. Diary Records from Galicia . Munich: H. Schmidt, 1915
  • The Gitana. Scenes from Spanish life around 1830 . Pictures by Erhard Amadeus. Vienna: A. Wolf, 1916
  • English statesmen . Berlin: Ullstein, 1916 (dedicated to Count Albert Mensdorff )
  • Letters from captivity . Vienna: Brüll, 1917
  • Why peace is not concluded . Vienna: Zsolnay, 1932
  • A queen's girl years . 1933
Plays
  • Pierrot's three-act drama . Vienna: Knepler, 1905
  • Golden youth: a play in three acts . Vienna: C. Konegen, 1907
  • The Gitana: Scenes from Spanish Life around 1830 . Pictures by Erhard Amadeus. Berlin: N. Salter, 1911
  • with Charles H. Fisher: The Hero of the Western World or The Hero of the Westerland . Adapted from JM Synge The Playboy of the Western World . 1912
  • Harley Granville-Barker : The Inheritance of the Voyseys: Five Acts from the English Bourgeoisie . Translation: G. Sil-Vara, Rudolf Kommer . Berlin: Berliner Theater-Verlag, 1913.
  • The woman of forty: a show in three acts . Vienna: Heller, 1913
  • One day: comedy in three acts . Leipzig: K. Wolff, 1915
  • Quartet Othmar. Comedy in three acts . Leipzig: K. Wolff, 1915
  • It goes on: a night and an epilogue . Drama. Munich: G. Müller, 1919
  • Playing with love: comedy in 3 acts . Berlin: Oesterheld, 1920
  • Fire in the castle: theater in 3 elevators . Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., 1923
  • The genius and his brother: comedy in 3 acts . Berlin: Oesterheld, 1927
  • A queen's girl years. Comedy in eight pictures . Vienna: Georg Marton, 1932

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ References to the siblings in the article by Rosa Silberer
  2. ↑ Max Bach was married to Ada Goulden, sister of Emmeline Goulden-Pankhurst
  3. ↑ Lajos Windisch-Graetz: From the red to the black prince . Berlin and Vienna, Ullstein & Co., 1920
personal data
SURNAME Silberer, Geza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sil-Vara (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Werschetz
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1938
Place of death Vienna