Fritz-Grünbaum-Platz

The comedian and writer Fritz Grünbaum shaped the Viennese cabaret scene in the 1920s and 1930s together with Karl Farkas. Until the takeover of power by Hitler in Germany in 1933, he also performed frequently in Berlin and Munich. Grünbaum was persecuted by the NS regime as a Jew. After the takeover of power by the National Socialists in Austria in March 1938, his attempt to flee to Czechoslovakia failed. He was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp, from where he arrived at Buchenwald on 23 September 1938 and returned to Dachau again on 24 October 1940. His last performance took place already seriously ill on New Year's Eve 1940 in the Dachau concentration camp, where he died two weeks later.