Hedwig (Vicki) Baum

Hedwig (Vicki) Baum was born on the 24^th January 1888; she died on the 29^th August 1960. She was an Austrian writer known for one of the major international successes she had called Menschen im Hotel of the year 1929.

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Life and Career

Hedwig (Vicki) Baum was born in the city of Vienna into a Jewish family. She started hr artistic career as a musician playing the musical instrument called harp. She studied at the Vienna conservatory and played in the music orchestra in Germany for the total of three years.

Baum later worked as a journalist for the magazine known as Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung that was published by Ullstein-Verlag in the city of Berlin.

Baum was married twice, the first was from the year 1914 to Max Prels a journalist of the country who got her introduced to the cultural scene of the city of Vienna and she was married for the second time from the year 1916 to Richard Lert a conductor who was her friend right from childhood.

Baum went into boxing in the later part of 1920s and she trained with the Turkish prizefighter called Sabri Mahir at his studio for the boxing and physical culture in the city of Berlin.

Baum started her writing career in her teen age. Her first book called Frühe Schatten was published when she was at the age of 31. She was brought to the light with the novel she wrote in the year 1929 called Menschen im Hotel.

Baum died of leukemia in Hollywood, California in the year 1960.

Baum Vicki is said to be one of the first modern bestselling writers and her works are categorized among the first examples of the modern day mainstream literature of the country.

Works

Ø  Frühe Schatten, 1919 (Early Shadow)

Ø  Der Eingang zur Bühne 1920 (The Entrance to the Stage)

Ø  Die Tänze der Ina Raffay 1921 (The Dances of Ina Raffay, republished as Kein Platz für Tränen in 1982)

Ø  Die anderen Tage 1922 (The Other Days) -- novel

Ø  Die Welt ohne Sünde 1923 (The World Without Sin)

Ø  Ulle der Zwerg 1924 (Ulle the Dwarf)

Ø  Tanzpause 1926 (Pause in the Dance)

Ø  Hell in Frauensee 1927 (Martin's Summer)

Ø  Feme, 1927

Ø  Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer 1928 (Helene)

Ø  Menschen im Hotel 1929 (Grand Hotel)

Ø  Zwischenfall in Lohwinkel 1930 (Incident in Lohwinkel, Results of an Accident)

Ø  Miniaturen 1930 (Miniatures)

Ø  Pariser Platz 13 1931 ("13 Paris Square")

Ø  Leben ohne Geheimnis 1932 (Published in the UK and US as Falling Star, 1934)

Ø  Das große Einmaleins / Rendezvous in Paris 1935 (The Great Multiplication / Rendezvous in Paris)

Ø  Die Karriere der Doris Hart 1936 (The Career of Doris Hart)

Ø  Liebe und Tod auf Bali 1937 (Love and Death in Bali)

Ø  Hotel Shanghai, 1937

Ø  Der große Ausverkauf 1937 (The Big Sell-Off) Querido, Amsterdam.

Ø  Die große Pause 1939 (The Big Break)

Ø  Es begann an Bord 1940 (The Ship and the Shores or It Began On Board)

Ø  Marion lebt 1941 (Marion Alive; republished as Marion in 1954)

Ø  Kautschuk / Cahuchu, Strom der Tränen 1943 (The Weeping Wood)

Ø  Hotel Berlin/ Hier stand ein Hotel 1943 (Hotel Berlin/ Here Stood A Hotel)

Ø  Verpfändetes Leben 1946 (Mortgage on Life)

Ø  Schicksalsflug 1947 (Flight of Fate)

Ø  Clarinda, 1949

Ø  Vor Rehen wird gewarnt 1951 (Deer Warning)

Ø  The Mustard Seed, 1953

Ø  Kristall im Lehm 1953 (Krystal Clay)

Ø  Flut und Flamme 1956 (Written on Water)

Ø  Die goldenen Schuhe 1957 (Theme for Ballet)

Ø  Es war alles ganz anders 1962 (It was all quite different)