Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber ( born August 15, 1885 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, † April 16, 1968 in New York City ) was an American author of Hungarian origin.

• 4.1 musicals
• 4.2 Movies

Life

Ferber was the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. They first wanted to be an actress, but gave up her studies when her father went blind, was a journalist and began writing at age 25. Later she was a member of the literary circle Algonquin Round Table in New York, where she got together with, among others, Dorothy Parker, Franklin Pierce Adams and George S. Kaufman. With her ​​colleague Alexander Woollcott she married a life-long enmity.

In her popular novels, short stories and stage works Ferber describes everyday life in the United States from the early days up to their presence. In a mixture of realistic and sentimental elements their works reflect the history of various regions of the United States. Frequently there are strong and militant women at the center of their work. Topics such as racism or the emancipation of women to be treated. 1925 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel So Big ( ger alone a woman). The novel was first filmed in 1925 with Colleen Moore. Other adaptations followed with Barbara Stanwyck and 1953 with Jane Wyman in the lead role of a farmer woman with vegetables comes to prosperity through trade and for her son a better life hoped for ( So Big ).

Numerous novels Ferber have been made ​​into successful films, including Take what you can get, 1936 by Howard Hawks and William Wyler with Joel McCrea, giants, 1955 by George Stevens with James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, and Cimarron, 1931 by Wesley Ruggles with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne (German pioneers of the Wild West ) and 1960 by Anthony Mann with Maria Schell and Glenn Ford (Eng. Cimarron ).

Her most famous works, the stage plays include Show Boat (Eng. The comedians ship ), which was filmed three times, and Dinner at Eight.

On April 16, 1968 Edna Ferber died in New York from stomach cancer.

Honors

Works (selection)

Autobiographies

• A Peculiar Treasure. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1960 ( EA New York 1939)
• A Kind of Magic. An autobiography. Vintage Books, New York 2014 ( EA New York 1963).

Anthologies

• Buttered Side Down. Doubleday Doran, New York 1941 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1912)
• Emma McChesney cycle Roast Beef, medium. The business adventures of Emma McChesney. Stokes, New York 1913.
• Personality Plus. Some experiences of Emma McChesney and her son, Jock. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1941 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1914).
• Emma McChesney and Co. Garden City, N. Y. 1944 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1915)

Stories

• Old Man Minick. In: Rose M. Somerville (ed.) Intimate relationship, marriage, family, and lifestyles through literature. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J. In 1975.
• At Iowa Childhood. In: John T. Flanagan (ed. ): American West is. An anthology of Middle Western life and literature. University Press, Minneapolis, Minn. , 1945.
• Gay old dog. Add: This is Chicago. An anthology. Holt, New York 1952.
• From Fanny herself. In: Jules Chametzky (ed.): Jewish American Literature. A Norton anthology. Norton Books, New York 2001.

Novels

• Dawn O'Hara. The girl who laughed. 8th edition. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1911. German translation: Laughter through tears. Novel. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1916.

• German Translation: The girl. Novel. Publisher Enoch, Hamburg 1928.

• German Translation: A woman alone. Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt / M. 1964 ( former Title: So great )

• German Translation: Show Boat. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 1979 ( former Title: The Comedians ship).

• German translation: Cimarron. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 1981 ( Munich Nachdr d ed 1930).

• German translation: The house of their fathers. Roman ( the world in the book). Desch, Munich 1957 ( former Title: American Beauty ).

• German translation: Saratoga. Novel. 2nd edition. Goldmann, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-442-06328-0 ( Nachdr d ed Zurich 1950).

• German Translation: The great sons. Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1990, ISBN 3-404-11562-7 ( Nachdr d ed Nuremberg 1950).

• German translation: giant. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-352-00723-3. (EA Zurich 1954)

• German translation: The White Palace. A novel from Alaska. (World in the book). Desch, Munich 1958.

Plays and screenplays

• The country 's bright. A play in three acts. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1941.
• Dinner at Eight. 1932 ( with George S. Kaufman ) German Translation: At 8 clock is eaten. A piece. Bloch Theater Verlag, Berlin, 1933.

Adaptations

Musicals

• Show Boat (1927 ) - Music: Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
• Saratoga ( musical) (1959 ) - Music: Harold Arlen, Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
• Giant ( 2009) - music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa

Movies

• Charles Brabin (director): So Big. In 1925. William A. Wellman (director): So Big. In 1932.
• Robert Wise (director): A Heart of Gold ( So Big ). In 1953.

• The Royal Family of Broadway., 1939.
• Paul Nickell (director): The Royal Family of Broadway. In 1954.
• Kirk Browning (director): The Royal Family of Broadway. In 1977.

• Anthony Mann (director): Cimarron ( Cimarron ). In 1960.

• George Sidney (director): Mississippi melody ( Show Boat ). In 1951.
• Kirk Browning (director): Show Boat. In 1989.

• Sidney Lumet (director): Stage Door. In 1955.