George Tabori
George Tabori (24 May 1914 – 23 July 2007) was a Hungarian writer and theater director. Life and career. Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father Kornél (Cornelius) was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori (writer and psychical researcher), managed to escape the Nazis. As a young man, Tabori travelled to Berlin but was forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1935 because of his Jewish background. He first went to London, where he worked for the BBC and received British citizenship. In  1947 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a translator (mainly of works by Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch) and a screenwriter including Alfred Hitchcock's movie "I Confess" (1953). His first novel, "Beneath The Stone", was published in America in 1945. In the late 1960s, Tabori brought his own and the work of Brecht to many colleges and universities. At the University of Pennsylvania he taught classes in dramatic writing which resulted in Werner Liepolt's "The Young Master Dante" and Ron Cowen's "Summertree". Two of Tabori's plays in English -- "The Cannibals" and "Pinkville"—were produced  by Wynn Handman at the American Place Theatre in New York City from 1968 through 1970. His play "The Prince" was filmed by John Boorman as "Leo the Last" (1970) with Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw; the film won the Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in that year. During his period in America, Tabori married Viveca Lindfors. In addition to his own child with Lindfors, Lena, Tabori adopted Lindfors' two sons, John and Kristoffer. Kristoffer later became an actor and Lena a publisher. In 1971, Tabori moved to Germany, where his new emphasis was theater work, and  mainly worked in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. His 1991 "Goldberg Variations" is a satirical farce based on Biblical stories which end in disaster. He died in Berlin, aged 93.