Vicki Baum

Hedwig (Vicki) Baum (January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She was born in Vienna into a Jewish family. She is known for Menschen im Hotel ("People at a Hotel", 1929), one of her first international successes.

Dicta

• "A woman who is loved always has success".
• "Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole".
• "Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings".
• "Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman".
• "To be a Jew is a destiny".

Vicki Baum died of leukemia in Hollywood, California, in 1960.

Related Topics:
Leukemia - Hollywood, California - 1960

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