Johannes Mario Simmel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johannes Mario Simmel

austrian writer

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1924

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2009

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Johannes Mario Simmel

  • Johannes Mario Simmel (7 April 1924 – 1 January 2009), also known as J.
  • M.
  • Simmel, was an Austrian writer. He was born in Vienna and grew up in Austria and England.
  • He was trained as a chemical engineer and worked in research from 1943 to the end of World War II.
  • After the end of the war, he worked as a translator for the American military government and published reviews and stories in the Vienna Welt am Abend.
  • Starting in 1950, he worked as a reporter for the Munich illustrated Quick in Europe and America. He wrote a number of screenplays and novels, which have sold tens of millions of copies.
  • Many of his novels were successfully filmed in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • He won numerous prizes, including the Award of Excellence of the Society of Writers of the UN.
  • Important issues in his novels are a fervent pacifism as well as the relativity of good and bad.
  • Several novels are said to have a true background, possibly autobiographic. According to his Swiss lawyer, Simmel died on 1 January 2009 in Lucerne, at 84 years of age.
  • This date was the 99th birthday of "Thomas Lieven", the main character of "It can't always be caviar."

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