Friedrich Torberg (Friedrich Kantor-Berg)
"[The café] was the fertile soil from which the dramatis personae extracted their secret life-giving juices, . . . a protection and sounding board, in short, a spiritual home." - Torberg, Die Tante Jolesch, oder der Untergang des Abendlandes in Anekdoten (Aunt Jolesch; or, the decline of the West in anecdotes).
Friedrich Torberg (Kantor-Berg) (1908–1979) was an Austrian novelist, journalist, and editor. In 1940 he escaped to the U.S. as a persecuted writer from Switzerland, where he fought with the French army. He lived as a scriptwriter in Los Angeles and New York before returning to Vienna in 1951.
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