Gustav A. "Geza" Silberer (1 December 1876 – 5? 8? April 1938) was an Austrian journalist and author of Jewish extraction born in Werschetz who wrote in German under the pseudonym Sil-Vara .
7-554: Gustav Silberer (aka G. Sil-Vara) was a journalist for Neue Freie Presse and a colleague of Theodor Herzl , who was impressed by his work and provided him with encouragement early on in his career. In 1912, while living in London, he and Charles H. Fisher adapted The Playboy of the Western World as Der Held des Westerlands and had it published by Georg Müller and performed at Max Reinhardt 's Kammerspiele, Berlin, at
14-676: A successful run in 1929 at New York's Theatre Guild , then elsewhere. His play Mädchenjahre einer Königin about the young Queen Victoria was the basis of several movies of the same name in 1936 and 1954 Several of his books are still in print: Ein Wiener Landsturmmann ( ISBN 9781161145694 ) and Ein Tag: Lustspiel in Drei Akten ( ISBN 9781168352613 ) Silvaraweg, a street in Döbling , Vienna
21-811: The Neue Wiener Bühne in Vienna and at the Stadttheater in Münster . A contemporary review of Englische Staatsmänner states that it was clear he had spent time in London and had close relations with the political figures he describes. The Vossische Zeitung "Aunt Voss" observes that readers would agreeably surprised to find Asquith, Curzon, Viscount Grey and Churchill treated "not as enemies but as men". His play Ein Tag: Lustspiel in Drei Akten , adapted by theatre director Philip Moeller as Caprice , had
28-518: The entire Viennese bourgeoisie, important works were those that won praise in the Neue Freie Presse , and works ignored or condemned there didn't matter. They felt that anything published in the feuilleton was vouched for by the highest authority, and a writer who pronounced judgment there demanded respect merely by virtue of that fact. The paper was the frequent target of satirist Karl Kraus . This Austrian newspaper-related article
35-459: The newspaper Die Presse . It existed until January 31, 1939. Werthner was president of Oesterreichischen Journal-Aktien-Gesellschaft , the business entity behind the newspaper. In 1879, Eduard Bacher became the editor-in-chief of the paper. The editor from 1908 to 1920, and eventual owner, was Moriz Benedikt . Journalists employed by the paper included " Sil-Vara " (pseudonym of Geza Silberer) and Felix Salten . In Paris, its correspondent
42-671: Was Raphael Basch , Max Nordau , and from 1891, Theodor Herzl , both founders of the Zionist movement. Its music critics included Eduard Hanslick (1864–1904) and Julius Korngold (1904–1934). In his book The World of Yesterday , Stefan Zweig , a feuilletonist for the newspaper, called the Neue Freie Presse "the oracle of my fathers and the temple of the high priests," and described its role as arbiter of literary and artistic culture in fin de siècle Vienna, especially for those who "had little to do with literature, and did not presume to make literary judgments": [T]o them, and to
49-411: Was named for him in 1966. Neue Freie Presse (1864–1872) Michael Etienne (1872–1879) Edward Baher (1879–1908) Moritz Benedict (1908–1920) Julian Sternberg Neue Freie Presse ("New Free Press") was a Viennese newspaper founded by Adolf Werthner together with the journalists Max Friedländer and Michael Etienne on 1 September 1864 after the staff had split from
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