Peter Altenberg

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

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.