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Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (/ b aʊ m /; Hebrew: ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as Grand Hotel ), one of her first international successes.
Vicki Baum (born Jan. 24, 1888, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]—died Aug. 29, 1960, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.) was an Austrian-born American novelist whose Menschen im Hotel (1929; “People at the Hotel”; Eng. trans. Grand Hotel) became a best-seller and was adapted as a successful play (1930), an Academy Award-winning film (1932 ...
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Aug 9, 2019 · Vicki Baum was a Jewish author who wrote modernist novels advocating for women's independence. Her books were among those burned by the Nazis in 1933 as "un-German."
Vicki Baum, eigentlich Hedwig Baum [Anm. 1] (* 24. Januar 1888 in Wien; † 29. August 1960 in Los Angeles (Stadtteil Hollywood ), Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten) war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin.
Vicki Baum (1888-1960) was a writer, playwright, and scriptwriter who wrote the novel People in a Hotel, adapted into the Oscar-winning film Grand Hotel. She emigrated to the United States in 1932 and became a best-selling author of novels set in Germany and Hollywood.
Grand Hotel (original German Menschen im Hotel, "People in the Hotel") is a 1929 novel by Vicki Baum, which was the basis for the 1932 film Grand Hotel. It should not be confused with Berlin Hotel (original German Hotel Berlin), published in 1945, which deals with the situation in Germany towards the end of World War I.
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A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Doctor Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half by a shell.
