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Vicki Baum. 3.99. 134 ratings27 reviews. Here is a Berlin luxury hotel, like its famous prototype still crowded with fascinating guests but drastically changed under a war-torn Nazi regime. Headquarters of the Gestapo, home of international parasites, Nazi officials, and the elite of Hitler's Reich, is a microcosm of the brutality and ...
Vicki Baum. Hedwig "Vicki" Baum ( 1888 Wien, Itävalta – 1960 Hollywood, Yhdysvallat) oli itävaltalainen kirjailija. Vicki Baumin muistolaatta Berliinissä. Baum toimi journalistina Berliinissä, ennen kuin hän sai mainetta romaanilla Naisyliopplas (1929). Hän oli juutalainen ja muutti Hollywoodiin, kun Loistohotellia alettiin kuvata.
Vicki Baum was born on 24 January 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was a writer, known for Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), Grand Hotel (1932) and The Great Flamarion (1945). She was married to Richard Lert and Max Prels.
Novelas. Tomo IV (Incluye: El bosque que llora. El ángel sin cabeza. Grand Hotel. Historia de una mujer. Vuelo fatal) Vicky Baum (Vicki Baum) Publicado por Planeta, Barcelona, 1958. Librería: MAUTALOS LIBRERÍA, Madrid, España.
by Vicki Baum, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, revised by Margot Bettauer Dembo, introduction by Noah Isenberg. 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.
Vicki Baum. 106 books72 followers. Vicki Baum (penname of Hedwig Baum) was born in a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. She moved to the United States in 1932 and when her books were banned in the Third Reich in 1938, she started publishing in English. She became an American citizen in 1938 and died in Los Angeles, in 1960.
Born (1888) and raised in Vienna, Vicki Baum first published stories as a teenager but then focused on musical studies at the Vienna Conservatory, where she made her professional debut in 1907. Shortly thereafter she met first husband, the writer Max Prels. Around the same time she won a juried prize for a story appearing in a Munich journal.
