Vicki Baum
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Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer best known for the novel Menschen im Hotel (1929).
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Works
- 1919 Frühe Schatten: Die Geschichte einer Kindheit (Early Shadows: The Story of a Childhood)
- 1920 Der Eingang zur Bühne (The Entrance to the Stage)
- 1921 Die Tänze der Ina Raffay (The Dances of Ina Raffay, republished as Kein Platz für Tränen in 1982)
- 1922 Die anderen Tage (The Other Days)
- 1923 Die Welt ohne Sünde (The World Without Sin)
- 1924 Ulle der Zwerg (Ulle the Dwarf)
- 1926 Tanzpause (Pause in the Dance)
- 1927 Hell in Frauensee (Martin's Summer)
- 1927 Feme
- 1928 Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (Helene)
- 1929 Menschen im Hotel (Grand Hotel)
- 1930 Zwischenfall in Lohwinkel (Incident in Lohwinkel, Results of an Accident in the UK, and And Life Goes On in the US)
- 1930 Miniaturen (Miniatures)
- 1931 Pariser Platz 13 ("13 Paris Square")
- 1932 Leben ohne Geheimnis (Published in the UK and US as Falling Star, 1934)
- 1935 Das große Einmaleins / Rendezvous in Paris (The Great Multiplication / Rendezvous in Paris)
- 1936 Die Karriere der Doris Hart (The Career of Doris Hart)
- 1937 Liebe und Tod auf Bali (Love and Death in Bali)
- 1937 Hotel Shanghai (Also printed in the UK under the name "Nanking Road")
- 1937 Der große Ausverkauf (The Big Sell-Off) Querido, Amsterdam.
- 1939 Die große Pause (The Big Break)
- 1940 Es begann an Bord (The Ship and the Shores or It Began On Board)
- 1941 Der Weihnachtskarpfen (The Christmas Carp)
- 1941 Marion lebt (Marion Alive; republished as Marion in 1954)
- 1943 Kautschuk / Cahuchu, Strom der Tränen (The Weeping Wood)
- 1943 Hotel Berlin/ Hier stand ein Hotel (Hotel Berlin/ Here Stood A Hotel, a sequel to Menschen im Hotel )
- 1946 Verpfändetes Leben (Mortgage on Life)
- 1947 Schicksalsflug (Flight of Fate)
- 1949 Clarinda
- 1951 Vor Rehen wird gewarnt (Deer Warning)
- 1953 The Mustard Seed
- 1953 Kristall im Lehm (Krystal Clay)
- 1956 Flut und Flamme (Written on Water)
- 1957 Die goldenen Schuhe (Theme for Ballet)
- 1962 Es war alles ganz anders (It Was All Quite Different) -- memoir
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Filmography
- Assassination, directed by Richard Oswald (Germany, 1927, based on the novel Feme)
- The Three Women of Urban Hell, directed by Jaap Speyer (Germany, 1928, based on the novel Hell in Frauensee)
- Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer, directed by Fred Sauer (Germany, 1930, based on the novel Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer)
- Grand Hotel, directed by Edmund Goulding (1932, based on the novel Grand Hotel)
- Lake of Ladies, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1934, based on the novel Hell in Frauensee)
- Helene, directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy (France, 1936, based on the novel Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer)
- Return at Dawn, directed by Henri Decoin (France, 1938, based on the short story Between 6 and 6)
- The Great Flamarion, directed by Anthony Mann (1945, based on the short story Big Shot)
- Hotel Berlin, directed by Peter Godfrey (1945, based on the novel Hotel Berlin)
- Week-End at the Waldorf, directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1945, based on the novel Grand Hotel)
- A Woman's Secret, directed by Nicholas Ray (1949, based on the novel Mortgage on Life)
- La Belle que voilà, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois (France, 1950, based on the novel Die Karriere der Doris Hart)
- Le Château de verre, directed by René Clément (France, 1950, based on the novel Das große Einmaleins)
- The Red Needle, directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert (France, 1951, based on the short story Das Joch)
- Dreaming Days, directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert (West Germany, 1951, based on the short story Das Joch)
- School for Love, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1955, based on the novel Der Eingang zur Bühne)
- Template:Interlanguage link multi, directed by Rudolf Jugert (West Germany, 1956, based on the novel Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer)
- Love, directed by Horst Hächler (West Germany, 1956, based on the novel Vor Rehen wird gewarnt)
- Menschen im Hotel, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt (West Germany, 1959, based on the novel Grand Hotel)
- Rendezvous in Paris, directed by Template:Interlanguage link multi (West Germany, 1982, based on the novel Das große Einmaleins)
- Die goldenen Schuhe, directed by Dietrich Haugk (West Germany, 1983, TV miniseries, based on the novel Die goldenen Schuhe)
- Hell in Frauensee, directed by Template:Ill (West Germany, 1983, TV film, based on the novel Hell in Frauensee)
- Shanghai 1937, directed by Peter Patzak (TV miniseries, Germany, 1997, based on the novel Hotel Shanghai)
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Screenwriter
- 1934: I Give My Love (dir. Karl Freund)
- 1935: The Night Is Young (dir. Dudley Murphy)
- 1938: The Great Waltz (uncredited) (dir. Dudley Murphy)
- 1940: Dance, Girl, Dance (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
- 1942: Powder Town (dir. Rowland V. Lee)
- 1942: Girl Trouble (dir. Harold D. Schuster)
- 1945: Behind City Lights (dir. John English)
- 1947: Honeymoon (dir. William Keighley)
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Dicta
- "A woman who is loved always has success".Template:Citation needed
- "Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole".Template:Citation needed
- "Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings".Template:Citation needed
- "Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman".Template:Citation needed
- "To be a Jew is a destiny".Template:Citation needed
- "There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them".Template:Citation needed
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