5/26/2023 0 Comments Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum![]() Lert joined her, and eventually became conductor of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra. Influenced by the increasingly hostile political climate in Germany, she decided to accept the job and remain in the United States. While on a promotional tour in the United States for this Broadway adaptation, she was offered a job as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Her novel Menschen im Hotel was so popular that it was adapted into a Broadway show in 1931, and later into the Hollywood classic film Grand Hotel. During the 1920s she rose in prominence as a popular novelist, and in 1926 she moved to Berlin after being offered a job as an editor at the major book and periodical publisher Ullstein. By 1914 she moved to Darmstadt to play in the orchestra with future husband Richard Lert, whom she married in 1916. ![]() By 1911 her marriage to Prels had fallen apart, and in 1913 their divorce was finalized. Around the same time she won a juried prize for a story appearing in a Munich journal. ![]() Shortly thereafter she met first husband, the writer Max Prels. WorldCat record id: 84085248īorn (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. ![]() Works by Vicki Baum include GRAND HOTEL, SECRET SENTENCE, HELENE, MEN NEVER KNOW, THE SHIP AND THE SHORE, MARION ALIVE, THE WEEPING WOOD, DANGER FROM DEER, and HEADLESS ANGEL.įrom the description of Vicki Baum papers, 1929-1953. ![]()
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