Erich-Fried-Straße

The approximately 270-meter-long Erich-Fried-Street in the Salzburg district of Gneis was named after the writer born in 1921 in 1989. Fried, who grew up in Vienna until 1938 and had been interested in literary production from an early age, fled immediately after the arrest of his parents and the murder of his father due to his Jewish heritage to London, where he got to know numerous exiled writers and writeresses. As a convinced communist, he was politically active in addition to his work at the BBC, which is also reflected in his writings. Erich Fried died on November 22, 1988.