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Felix Salten

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born

September 06, 1869 in Budapest, Hungary

died

October 08, 1945

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Literature & Fiction

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Felix Salten was an Austrian writer. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867.

When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. He was soon publishing, on an average,...more Felix Salten was an Austrian writer. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867.

When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. He wrote film scripts and librettos for operettas. In 1927 he became president of the Austrian P.E.N. club.

His most famous work is Bambi, which he wrote in 1923. It was translated into English in 1928 and became a Book-of-the-Month Club hit. In 1933, he sold the film rights to Sidney Franklin for $1,000, who later transferred the rights to the Walt Disney studios. Disney released its movie based on Bambi in 1942.

Life in Austria became perilous for a prominent Jew in the 1930s. Adolf Hitler had Salten's books banned in 1936. Two years later (1938), after Austria had become part of Germany, Salten moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where he lived until his death.

He was married to the actress Ottilie Metzl, and had two children: Paul and Anna-Katherina. He wrote another book based on the character Bambi, titled Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family, 1939. His stories "Perri" and "The Hound of Florence" inspired the Disney films Perri and The Shaggy Dog.

Salten is considered to be the author of the erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher, the fictional autobiography of a Vienna prostitute, which was published in 1906.
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Average rating: 4.02 · 5,311 ratings · 169 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Bambi 4.03 avg rating — 4,977 ratings — published 1923 — 38 editions	My rating:
	Bambi's Children 3.94 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1939 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Fifteen Rabbits 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1942 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Perri 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1938	My rating:
	Walt Disney's Bambi (Little Golden Book) by Walt Disney Company, Felix Salten (Photographer) 4.17 avg rating — 5,710 ratings — published 1941 — 52 editions	My rating:
	Florian: The Lippizaner 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Josefine Mutzenbacher: die Lebensgeschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Bambi's Children Part One 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Jibby the cat 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1948	My rating:

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