Fritz Rotter

{{Short description|Austrian writer and composer}}

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| birth_date = 3 March 1900

| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

| death_date = 11 April 1984

| death_place = Ascona, Switzerland

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| occupation = Writer, composer

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Fritz Rotter (1900–1984) was an Austrian writer and composer.Otte p.246 Along with his brother Alfred he owned several Berlin theatres during the Weimar Republic but, due to his Jewish background, was forced to emigrate following the Nazi rise to power in 1933. After emigrating to the US he also used the writing alias M. Rotha ('Mausie Rotha').