Otto Zoff was an Austrian author, script writer, dramaturge, journalist and "all-round Bohemian".
10 Facts About Otto Zoff
1.
2.
Otto Zoff enjoyed great success during the early 1920s with stage adaptations of literary works, a notable example being a liberal reworking of von Eichendorff's "Die Freier", which was staged by almost a hundred theatres.
3.
At one point during the mid-1930s Otto Zoff's novels were publicly burned and placed on a list of banned books in Nazi Germany.
4.
Otto Zoff was joined in this enterprise by the archaeologist Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg.
5.
Liselotte Otto Zoff's previous husband's was a man called Ludwig Kobner.
6.
Otto Zoff saw his friends, but did not become attached to any particular social circle, preferring to remain a "loner": Liselotte thought that he might have feared being overshadowed.
7.
Otto Zoff spent long hours at his desk, and had grand ideas, but little came of it.
8.
Otto Zoff made his final visit to Germany in 1961, and stayed.
9.
Otto Zoff was now affected by the heart disease that would kill him.
10.
Otto Zoff died at Munich in his sleep during the night of 14 December 1963.