- With the outbreak of World War I Roda-Roda worked as a war correspondent and after the war he became an all-rounder in the fields cabaret and literature. His literally works were characterized by humour and satire.
- He died in New York at the age of 73. In contrast to him who was able to flee abroad, his sister Gisela was deported to Theresienstadt where she died.
- Roda is the Croatian word for stork. He chose his new surname because storks nested on the chimney of his house in Esseg (today Osijek).
- The takeover of the National Socialists ended his career in Germany and he went to Austria where he had to flee as well in 1938. He first went to Switzerland and later he emigrated to the USA.
- Roda-Roda began a study for law and when he gave it up he joined the military. There he was able to be active as an author as well and he wrote the "Slavonische Dorfgeschichten".
- The first filming of one of Roda-Roda's work was the movie "Die Liebe vom Zigeuner stammt..." (1920), it followed other scripts for "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1926), "Liebeskommando" (1931) and "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1932).
- Because of several offenses he was released from the military service in 1907 and Roda-Roda concentrated to his stage career. He used his experiences in the military for the writing of the play "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1909) which was filmed several times in later years.
- Because his family used the name Roda in order to hide their Jewish roots, the first works of Sandor Friedrich Rosenfeld - which he wrote together with his sister - were published under the name Roda. Therefore their books were published by their initials A. and M. as well as the doubling of their family name - A.M. Roda Roda. Sandor Friedrich Rosenfeld took over this doubling in 1906 and used it as his pseudonym.
- He was also able to act in front of the camera for few movies, among them "Der Feldherrnhügel" (1926) and Der Feldherrnhügel" (1932).
- His works were regularly published in the publication "Simplicissimus" from 1900 and in 1902 he wrote the play "Dana Petrowitsch" based on his liaison with the actress Adele Sandrock.
- In 1894, Roda Roda converted from Judaism to Catholicism.
- His sister was the physician Gisela Januszewska.
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