
Peter Altenberg
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1859-03-09
Day of Death
1919-01-08 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria
Peter Altenberg
Biography
Peter Altenberg, Richard Engländer, was an Austrian writer and poet. He was key to the genesis of early modernism in Vienna and a very influential part of a literary and artistic movement known as Jung-Wien. Altenberg was a contemporary of Karl Kraus, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler, Gustav Klimt, Frank Wedekind, and Adolf Loos, with whom he had a very close relationship.
Known For
Acting
(1921)