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Salten, Felix eigentlich Siegmund Salzmann
© Copyright Felix Salten, photo, 1907 Salten, Felix (real name: Siegmund Salzmann), b. Budapest (Hungary), Sept. 6, 1869, d. Zurich (Switzerland), Oct. 8, 1945, writer, feature writer and critic at the Vienna Burgtheater. Belonged to the "Jung-Wien" group, 1927-1933 president of the Austrian P.E.N. Club, emigrated to Switzerland in 1939. With "Bambi" (1923, made into a film in 1942 by W. Disney) S. exerted considerable influence on the modern animal story; thought to be the author of "Josefine Mutzenbacher" (1906), an erotic novel on the life of a Viennese prostitute. Further works: Novels: Herr Wenzel auf Rehberg und sein Knecht Kaspar Dinckel, 1907; Olga Frohgemuth, 1910; Martin Overbeck, 1927. - Novels about animals: 15 Hasen, 1929; Florian. Das Pferd des Kaisers, 1933; Bambis Kinder, 1940; Djibi, das Kätzchen, 1945. - Essays: Wurstelprater, 1911; Das Burgtheater, 1922. - Edition: Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben, 6 vols., 1928-1932. Literature: L. Pouh, Wr. Literatur und Psychoanalyse: Felix Dörmann, Jakob Julius David and Felix Salten, 1997; ÖBL.
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