Joseph Roth(1894-1939)

His novels and short stories have been successfully adapted by directors Bernhard Wicki and Michael Haneke, while his most famous work Radetzkymarsch was turned into a critically acclaimed mini-series drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Max von Sydow.

The feuilleton is as important as politics are to the newspaper, and to the reader it's vastly more important. I paint the portrait of the age. That's what great newspapers are there for. I'm not a reporter, I'm a journalist. I'm not an editorial writer. I'm a poet.