The “father” of Käfer and Polt: cult author Alfred Komarek is dead

The “father” of Käfer and Polt: cult author Alfred Komarek is dead

The writer Alfred Komarek died at the age of 78.
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His list of works includes around 80 books and ranges from “The Easter Bunny Eberhard in Love” to “Weird Birds”, where he also portrayed himself – as a caveman. What made him particularly popular were the iconic book series about the fired editor-in-chief Daniel Käfer and the gendarme Simon Polt, which were also made into films.

In 2011, Alfred Komarek, who lived in Bad Aussee, Vienna and the Weinviertel, was awarded the Austrian Book Trade’s Honorary Prize for Tolerance in Thought and Action. “For Polt, as for me, being tolerant is a way of getting along to some extent with the world and people,” said the essayist and narrator in his acceptance speech.

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