Alfred Polgar is an austrian writer, critic and translator. He started writing regularly for Die Schaubühne in 1905. He also writes plays for cabarets, such as Goethe im Examen. During the First World War, he works at the military archives and publishes in journals. After the rise of the Nazis, his books are banned and burned in Germany. Polgar has to flee and ends up in Hollywood. In 1949 he returns to Europe and moves to Zurich. He continues writing in German-speaking journals.