BRUCKNER, FERDINAND (TAGGER, THEODOR)

(1891-1958)

   Austrian playwright. Born in Vienna, he studied in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. He founded the Berlin Renaissance Theater which he directed. He wrote a number of successful plays, and adapted and modernized various plays. With the rise of Hitler, he went into exile and spent 17 years in America writing scripts for Hollywood as well as historical and poetic drama. In 1951 he returned to Germany and settled in Berlin.