Peter Altenberg
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: March 9, 1859
Day of Death: January 8, 1919 (60 years old)
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
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.
