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Gustav A. "Geza" Silberer (1 December 1876 – 5? 8? April 1938) was an Austrian journalist and author of Jewish extraction〔http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1938_1939_5_YRAppendices.pdf〕 born in Werschetz who wrote in German under the pseudonym Sil-Vara. He was a journalist of long standing on the staff of ''Neue Freie Presse'' . A contemporary critic (who described him as a "literary non-entity") wrote of his book ''Englische Staatsmänner'' that he appeared to have spent some time in London and had close relations with the leading political figures he describes. The Vossische Zeitung "Aunt Voss" informed readers that they would be "agreeably surprised" to find the likes of Asquith, Curzon, Viscount Grey and Churchill treated "not as enemies but as men".〔("Germany Day by Day" ''Kalgoorlie Argus'' 7 November 1916 p.1,2 )〕 In 1912, while living in London, he and Charles H. Fisher adapted ''The Playboy of the Western World'' as ''Der Held des Westerlands''〔https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15206553W/Der_Held_des_Westerlands〕 and had it published by Georg Müller and performed at Max Reinhardt's Kammerspiele, Berlin, at the Neue Wiener Bühne in Vienna and at the Stadttheater in Münster.〔(Bourgeois, Maurice ''John Millington Synge and the Irish theatre'' p.18 )〕 His play ''Ein Tag: Lustspiel in Drei Akten'', adapted by theatre director Philip Moeller as ''Caprice'', had a successful run in 1929 at New York's Theatre Guild, then elsewhere.〔("New comedy at Independent" ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 8 January 1944 p.11 )〕 His play ''Mädchenjahre einer Königin'' about the young Queen Victoria was the basis of several movies of the same name in 1936 and 1954〔(''The Story of Vickie'' at IMDb )〕 Several of his books are still in print: ''Ein Wiener Landsturmmann'' (ISBN 9781161145694) and ''Ein Tag: Lustspiel in Drei Akten'' (ISBN 9781168352613) ==Bibliography== *''Londoner Spaziergänge'' 1914 *''Ein Wiener Landsturmmann: Kriegstagebuchaufzeichnungen Aus Galizien'' 1915 *''Englische Staatsmänner'' (1916) biographies of Asquith, Balfour, Chamberlain, Churchill, Curzon, Bonar Law, Kitchener, Lloyd-George, Rosebery, Parnell and others. *''Die Gitana. Szenen aus dem spanischen Leben um 1830'' 1916 illustrated by Erhard Amadeus *''Briefe aus der Gefangenschaft'' 1917 *''Es geht weiter: Eine Nacht und ein Epilog'' 1919 *''Warum kommt der Friede nicht zustande'' 1932 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geza Silberer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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