Young Gerber

Kurt Gerber embarks enthusiastically on his last year at school, determined to focus on that all-important final exam. He soon finds, however, he is constantly at odds with his sadistic teacher, Professor Kupfer, known to the students as "Lord God Kupfer." Inspired by the real-life suicides of ten school peers during one week in 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless tale of classroom angst and an undisputed classic of Austrian literature. Friedrich Torberg worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague before being forced to emigrate. Whilst in America, he worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter and for Time magazine.