Background
Milo Dor was born a Serb. His father was a surgeon, his mother lead a beauty salon. Dor grew up in the Banat and later in Belgrade.
Milo Dor was born a Serb. His father was a surgeon, his mother lead a beauty salon. Dor grew up in the Banat and later in Belgrade.
He described himself as "an Austrian, Viennese, and European of Serbian heritage."
Having organised a school strike in 1940, he was expelled. Nevertheless, he passed his final exams in the following year. He participated in the resistance movement against the German occupants.
In 1942, he was arrested.
Stays in prison and camps followed until he was deported to Vienna in 1943. A year later, he was arrested again and put into "protective custody" (a euphemism used by the Nazis for the rounding-up of political opponents).
After World World War II, Dor stayed in Austria, studying drama and Romance languages at the University of Vienna until 1949 while working as a German writing journalist. Milo Dor died early on 5 December 2005 from heart failure in a hospital in Vienna and was interred in an honorary grave at the Zentralfriedhof.
In highschool, he was a member of the Communist Youth and wrote lyrics. From 1951, he was a member of the literary association Group 47. He was also a member of the Austrian Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club and president of the Austrian Writers Federation.