Otto Tausig (13 February 1922 – 10 October 2011) was an Austrian writer, director and actor.

When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, she managed to send 16-year-old Otto to England in answer to an advertisement for factory workers which had been posted in The Times.

[3] The New Theatre closed in 1956, after which Tausig worked at the Deutsches Theater and the Volksbühne in East Berlin,[1] as a screenwriter and director of satirical short films of DEFA, the so-called "Das Stacheltier".

[1] Tausig also worked as a freelance artist throughout the German-speaking world, and taught courses at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

[citation needed] He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, his ashes are buried in Vienna Central Cemetery.