About
Georg Franz Kreisler (born in Vienna; died in Salzburg) was a composer, singer, and poet. In worldview he saw himself as an anarchist. He came from an Austrian family. Because of his Jewish origins, after the National Socialists came to power in Austria in 1938, he emigrated with his parents to the United States and took US citizenship in 1943. In 1955 he returned to Europe.
Against being called primarily a cabaret artist, Kreisler, who practiced this profession at a young age to earn a living, has repeatedly resisted. He also protested against being referred to as an Austrian: "But under no circumstances am I Austrian ... I have been an American citizen since 1943, although Clinton has never congratulated me on my birthday."
His career began in the USA. Since the mid-1950s, it became popular in the German-speaking area through songs such as Tauben Poison, Death, That Must Be a Viennese and Vienna without a Viennese. With his black, profound humor and linguistic wit, Kreisler strongly influenced the musical German-language cabaret of his time as an interpreter and author of his own works.