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George Tabori not only embodies the rare combination of playwright, director, and occasional actor, but, as German theater critic Peter von Becker points out in Materials for the Film "Tabori Theater Theater Tabori" (1991), he is also one of the last witnesses "from the generation of emigrants between 1933 and 1945, of the connection between overseas exile and the central European cultural tradition." His life as an emigrant made him understand that every "human being is different," and that to categorize human beings according to race or nationality is to objectify individuals and thereby smooth the path to their destruction. Of the many plays Tabori has written, those dealing with the Holocaust and questions of Jewish identity are the most acclaimed and have earned him many literary prizes and awards. Tabori's voice is distinct in the German-speaking theater landscape, an eclectic mixture of black humor with tragedy, of Judeo-Christian mythology with historical fact, of banality and vulgarity with human greatness.
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