The corner of Wiedner Hauptstraße and Waaggasse in Vienna was named Vicki-Baum-Platz in her honor
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Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.
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Born 24 January 1888 · Died 29 August 1960 · Q93444
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1960· 1 entry
Died 1960-08-29.
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1942· 1 entry
In Novi Sad (present-day Serbia) by soldiers of the Hungarian occupation
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1938· 1 entry
And her post-World War II works were written in English rather than in German
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1937· 1 entry
And translated into English as 'A Tale From Bali' and then later republished under its original German title as Love and Death in Bali
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1929· 1 entry
Directed by Max Reinhardt, and an Academy Award winning film, Grand Hotel, in 1932
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1910· 1 entry
And in 1916, she married Richard Lert, a conductor
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1906· 2 entries
At the fall of the last independent kingdom in Bali to the Dutch
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Was to Max Prels, an Austrian journalist who introduced her to the Viennese cultural scene; some of her first short stories were published under his name
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-01-24.
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