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Peter Altenberg

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.

Gender:

Male

Birthday:

Mar 9, 1859

Deathday:

8 thg 1, 1919

Place of birth:

Vienna, Austria