Alfred Polgar award received Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik
1920—1955
In the 1920s, Polgar lived mainly in Berlin and from here he supplied as a freelancer many articles for daily newspapers such as Berliner Tageblatt, Prager Tageblatt and for the weekly published literary magazine Die Weltbühne.
As a engaged columnist he enriched the college in which such illustrious people worked like Erich Kästner, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, Kurt Tucholsky, Robert Walser. 
In October 1929 he married Elise Loewy, born Müller, called Lisl, from Vienna.
After the Nazi regime came to power, there was no place for the “Austrian Jew and left-liberal anti-fascist Polgar in National Socialist Germany”, as Ulrich Weinzierl points.  
At the beginning of March 1933 he fled to Prague. On May 10, 1933, his books were burned. Later he went to Vienna. In 1937/38 he wrote about Marlene Dietrich; a text found by his biographer Ulrich Weinzierl in New York in 1984, and posthumously published in 2015.
During the Anschluss in March 1938, Alfred and Lisl Polgar were in Zurich. Because he could not get a work permit there, they fled to Paris. After the Germans invaded France in June 1940, he fled to Marseille, from where in October 1940, with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee, he managed to escape via the Pyrenees to Spain and via Lisbon to emigrate to the USA. In Hollywood he worked, among other things, as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
From 1943 he lived in New York, where he and his wife received American citizenship.
In 1949 they returned to Europe and settled in Zurich. In 1951 Polgar received the Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik which has been awarded annually since 1951 and endowed with eight thousand Euros. He died in 1955 and was buried in the Sihlfeld cemetery in Zurich.Awards and honors
1951: Preis der Stadt Wien für Publizistik
1965  Polgarstraße in the 22. Wiener Gemeindebezirk, Donaustadt.
The school located in this street was named Polgar-Gymnasium.
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