Vicki Baum

Vicki Baum, actual name Hedwig Baum (Vienna, 24 January 1888 - Los Angeles, August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. The success of her work was due to the topicality of her subjects em the exact painting of different environments.

She was born in Vienna and made a career as first harpist in Berlin, Kiel, Hannover and Mannheim. From 1914 she was also working on writing novels. They acquired international fame with her novel Menschen im Hotel, first published in 1929 and a year later was already translated into many European languages. Also her novel ''Stud. Chem. Helene Willfüer'' from the same year had a great success.

Vicki Baum In 1931 traveled on the occasion of the filming of Menschen im Hotel to New York and Hollywood. In 1932 she decided to live in California and finally in 1938, after her father was annexed by nazi Germany and land her books were banned there, she became American citizen and they also began to publish in English

In 1935 she spent several months in Walter Spies on Bali. On the basis of her experiences there, she wrote her novel in 1937 Liebe und Tod auf Bali. In it she describes from the point of view of a simple Balinese farmer the events preceding the conquest of South Bali by the Dutch in 1907.

She died in 1960 in Los Angeles. Posthumously, she published her autobiography Es war ganz everything else. ==List of works[ Edit] ==
 * Frühe Treasures (novel, 1919)
 * Ulle, der Zwerg (novel, 1924)
 * Menschen im Hotel (novel, 1929)
 * Stud. Chem. Helene Willfüer (novel, 1929)
 * Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel (novel, 1930)
 * Leben ohne Ga (novel, 1932)
 * Das große Einmaleins (novel, 1935)
 * That Karriere der Doris Heart (novel, 1936)
 * Liebe und Tod auf Bali (novel, 1937)
 * Hotel Shanghai (novel, 1939)
 * The Ship and the Shore (novel, 1941)
 * Cahuchu (novel, 1944)
 * Es war alles ganz anders (autobiography, ed. 1962)