After a brief legal career in the University of Vienna and Salzburg, he devoted himself to journalism and literature, working as a journalist for a Viennese newspaper and a correspondent for "Neue Freie Presse", in Paris, occasionally making special trips to London and Istanbul. He later became literary editor of "Neue Freie Presse", and wrote several comedies and dramas for the Viennese stage. His early work did not focus on Jewish life. It was of the feuilleton order, descriptive rather than political.