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Literary movement. Wiener Moderne. Alfred Polgar (originally: Alfred Polak; 17 October 1873 in Vienna – 24 April 1955 in Zurich) was an Austrian -born columnist, theater critic, writer and occasionally translator . Jewish life and culture in Leopoldstadt, 1915.
Alfred Polgar. Born in Vienna in 1873, Alfred Polgar was educated in the cafes. He established himself early in his adult career as the unsurpassable exemplar of German prose in modern times, even ...
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Alfred Polgar (* 17. Oktober 1873 in Wien; † 24. April 1955 in Zürich; bis 1914 amtlich Alfred Polak; Pseudonyme Archibald Douglas, L. A. Terne) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller, Aphoristiker, Kritiker und Übersetzer. Er ist einer der bekanntesten Autoren der Wiener Moderne .
Vienna 1900. Biography. Alfred Polgar was born Alfred Polak on October 17, 1873 in the Leopoldstadt district in Vienna. His Jewish parents, Henriette and Josef, owned a piano school, and he was the youngest of three children. Polgar attended business school and became a member of the editorial staff of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung.
POLGAR, ALFRED (1873–1955), Austrian essayist and critic. One of Austria's foremost prose stylists and drama critics, Polgar, who was born as Alfred Polak, was the son of a Viennese musician. He worked as a reporter and as drama critic for the Wiener Allgemeinen Zeitung.
One of the most celebrated writings on cafés is Alfred Polgar’s Theory of the Café Central (1926), essentially a feuil-leton-manifesto written from within the world of the iconic Viennese literary café. The ‘theory’ amounts to a somewhat acerbic tongue-in-cheek insider exploration of the characteristically modern forms of stranger ...
- Paul Manning
- 2013
Polgar is commonly considered to be a master of the literary miniature, the smallform writing consisting of imagistic language and a lapidary style that gained currency in the 1920s and 1930s and typically combined engaged social commentary, philosophical reflection, and a claim to aesthetic value.
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