
Baum studied music six years at the conservatory and wasĮducated as a harp player. Her first stories appeared in print when she

Moreover, there was also a sadistic nurse. Had mental problems she spent a lenghty period in a sanatorium. Baum's father was tyrannical and her mother In her memoirs she has revealed that due family problems her childhood She spent her childhood in the fin-de-siècle bourgeois surroundings, as "the single child of a good family." ('Vicki Baum' by Robert Harrison, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers: Volume One, A-K, edited by Katharina M. Vicki Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family, the daughter of Hermann Baum and Mathilde Donat. After all, the routine of the hotel could not be upset jutīecause Hall Porter Senf's wife was having a baby." ( Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo, 2016) ) He was surprised to find them wet, but there was no time to wash his Switched off, he exhaled deeply and ran his fingers through his hair. Where the now quiet reading and writing rooms had half their lights The hospital and was about to have a child. He did this unconsciously because his wife had been taken to

Trivialliteratur, but her work has also received serious critical Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore. In 1932 under the title Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, Vicki Baum (1888-1960) - Original name Hedwig BaumĪustrian popular novelist, whose Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel, 1929) started herĬareer as one of the most widely-read authors of her time.īaum's novel was made into an Oscar winning film in Hollywood A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
