George Tabori

George Tabori, born György Tábori, was a British screenwriter, actor, speaker, novelist, translator, playwright and theater director. He rejected the term “director” as being too authoritarian and instead described himself as a “playmaker”. Tabori was very appreciated by the majority of his actors because of his pleasant way of working. In his plays he often countered the horror of racism and mass murder with black humor and absurd comedy. In the USA he worked as a screenwriter with, among others, Alfred Hitchcock and Bertolt Brecht. In 1971 he returned to Central Europe. There he reached the pinnacle of his theatrical art in Vienna from 1986 and in Berlin from 1999 with the Berliner Ensemble. Many theater fans valued the “longest-serving theater maker in the world” in his final years as the unofficial “theater king.”