A brief biography of Vicki Baum, novelist.
BIOGRAPHY
Vicki Baum, novelist, was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Her original name was Hedwig Baum. She began her artistic career as a musician, playing the harp. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory and played in an orchestra in Germany for three years. She later worked for the magazine BERLINER ILLUSTRIERTE ZEITUNG.
Baum began writing in her teens. Her first book, FRUHE SCATTEN, was published when she was 31. She is most famous for her 1929 novel MENSCHEN IM HOTEL (GRAND HOTEL) which was made into an Academy Award winning film. Her memoire, IT WAS ALL QUITE DIFFERENT, was published posthumously in 1964.
Vicki Baum died of leukemia in Hollywood, California in 1960.
CHRONOLOGY
1888 She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. (January 24)
1916 She married Richard Lert.
1919 FRUHE SCATTEN
1920 SCHLOSSTHEATER; DER EINGANG ZUR BUHNE (THE STAGE DOOR)
1921 DIE TANZE DER INA RAFFAY
1922 WELT OHNE SUNDE; DIE ANDERN TAGE
1923 BUBENREISE
1924 ULLE, DER ZWERG; DAS CHRISTSTERNLEIN; DER WEG
1926 TANZPAUSE; FERNE; MINIATUREN; She moved to Berlin and became an editor for Ullstein-Velag, a publishing company.
1927 HELL IN FRAUENSEE
1929 MENSCHEN IM HOTEL (GRAND HOTEL); STUD. CHEM. HELENE WILLFUER
1930 ZWISHENFALL IN LOHWINKEL; HALL IN FAUEMSEE
1931 PARIZER PLATZ 13
1932 LEBEN OHNE GEHEIMNIS; She moved to the United States.
1933 DIVINE DRUDGE
1935 JAPE IM WARENHAUS; DAS GROSSE EINMALEINS
1936 DIE KARRIERE DER DORIS HART
1937 DER GROSSE AUSVERKAUF; LIEBE UND TOD AUF BALI (TALE OF BALI
1938 She became a U.S. citizen.
1939 HOTEL SHANGHAI
1941 DIE GROSSE PAUSE; MARION LEBT (MARION ALIVE); THE SHIP AND THE SHORE
1942 GRAND OPERA
1943 DAS WEINENDE LAND; ONCE IN VIENNA
1944 HOTEL BERLIN '43; KAUTSCHUK; HIER STAND EIN HOTEL
1946 MORTGAGE ON LIFE
1947 SCHIKSALSFLUG
1948 HEADLESS ANGEL
1949 CLARINDA
1951 DANGER FROM DEER
1952 VOR REHEN WIRD GEWARNT
1953 KRISTALL IM LEHM; THE MUSTARD SEED; TIBURON
1956 WRITTEN ON WATER; FLUT UND FLAMME
1958 EINZAMER WEG; DIE GOLDENE SCHULE; THEME FOR BALLET
1963 VERPFANDETES LEBEN
1964 IT WAS ALL QUITE DIFFERNT/ I KNOW WHAT I'M WORTH
