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Viertel was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. In 1928, his parents moved to Santa Monica, California, where Viertel grew up with his brothers, Hans and Thomas.
Viertel, who was born in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Santa Monica, California, is the son of a movie director who is also one of the best surviving Lyric poets of Austria. In World War II Viertel enlisted in the Marine Corps and wound up in the South Pacific.
Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel was born in Dresden, Germany, on Nov. 16, 1920. Six years later, he moved to Hollywood, where his father, Berthold, worked as a film director and screenwriter.
Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel was born Nov. 16, 1920, in Dresden, Germany. Growing up, Mr. Viertel said, he could identify far more with Southern California culture than with his immigrant parents and their...
Dec 21, 2007 · Peter Viertel was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1920. His Viennese father, Berthold Viertel, was a poet, novelist and playwright, and had acted and directed in the theatre prior to directing...
November 16, 1920 · Dresden, Germany. Died. November 4, 2007 · Marbella, Spain (lymphoma) Mini Bio. Peter Viertel, a WWII veteran whose first novel was published to glowing reviews when he was only 18, was born of parents of the European intelligentsia, refugees from Adolf Hitler 's Europe.
• Early childhood in Germany. • Growing up in Santa Monica. • His parents Berthold and Salka. • Salka’s salon: Peter remembers Bert Brecht, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley and many, many others. • Spanish civil war. • What the intellectual society in Hollywood thought of Adolf Hitler. • First novel THE CANYON (and why he wrote it)
