ABSTRACT
George (György) Tabori, a novelist, essayist, translator, dramatist, stage director, and radio play and film scriptwriter, was born in Hungary and has lived and worked in Germany, Austria, England, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Middle East, and the United States. Today, Tabori lives in Vienna, Austria. He possesses a British passport, but he breaks with all concepts of a “national” writer. He is a global citizen who feels more comfortable with a transnational, transcultural identity. This cosmopolitan heritage is reflected in his writing. After his breakthrough as stage director in 1984 (with Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot), and as playwright in 1987 with Mein Kampf, Tabori emerged in the early 1990s as one of the major contemporary dramatists and stage directors in German theater. The major reception of his work has taken place in Germany and Austria, even though Tabori writes in English and his work for German-speaking audiences is published in translation.
