Siegfried Trebitsch was an Austrian playwright, translator, novelist and poet.
18 Facts About Siegfried Trebitsch
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Siegfried Trebitsch is known for translations of French writers, especially Georges Courteline.
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Siegfried Trebitsch identified himself as a Lutheran when he registered for military service.
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Siegfried Trebitsch entered the silk trade business of his stepfather Leopold, where he remained until 1903 when he took a year out for personal study and for travels across Europe and North Africa.
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Siegfried Trebitsch became the sole German translator of Shaw during his lifetime.
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Siegfried Trebitsch took up his residence in Vienna, where he built the prestigious "Villa Trebitsch" designed by Ernst Gotthilf.
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Siegfried Trebitsch married in 1907 to the Hungarian Princess Antoinette Engalitscheff, the widow of a Russian Grand Duke who had been killed in 1904 fighting the Japanese.
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Siegfried Trebitsch was a close friend of music critic Julius Korngold, father of Erich Korngold.
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Siegfried Trebitsch once suggested to him that one of his translations, a play called Die stille Stadt would make a good opera.
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Siegfried Trebitsch had agreed with Gregori, describing Arthur's work as "amateurish" and suggesting that he suffered from "megolamania and paranoia".
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Siegfried Trebitsch continued to live in Vienna until the 1938 Anschluss, when Austria was absorbed into Nazi Germany.
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Siegfried Trebitsch fled to Paris, where he was awarded an honorary French citizenship in 1939 in recognition of his promotion of French culture in Germany.
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Siegfried Trebitsch attempted to raise funds by unsuccessfully claiming royalties for The Chocolate Soldier, a German operetta based on Arms and the Man.
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Siegfried Trebitsch applied for an immigration visa to the United States in June 1941, as a precaution, but with Allied victory this was unnecessary.
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Siegfried Trebitsch remained in Zurich for the rest of his life.
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Siegfried Trebitsch visited Shaw after the war, but when he planned a second visit in 1948, the irritable Shaw wrote "do not come", later writing that European ideas of intimacy were considered "sentimental nonsense" in England.
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Siegfried Trebitsch was responsible for the translation and first production of Shaw's last full-length play, Buoyant Billions which was first performed in German in Siegfried Trebitsch's new home, Zurich, under the title Zu viel Geld.
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In 1951 Siegfried Trebitsch published an autobiography, Chronik eines Lebens, which was published in English, translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, two years later.