Gina Kaus

Gina Kaus ( born October 21, 1893 in Vienna, † 23 December 1985, Los Angeles; actually Regina Vienna ) was an Austrian writer, translator and screenwriter.

Life

Regina Vienna was the daughter of the money broker Max Wiener and attended a young ladies school. Her half sister was the later to dubious fame of received, Stephanie Richter. Even before the outbreak of World War I in 1913, she married the musician Josef Zirner, but in 1915 fell on the battlefield. Gina lived then at her in-laws, the Zirners who operated a jewelry store. There she met a relative of the family, Joseph wreath know. The bank director, president and army supplier cartel was a well-known figure of the Jewish haute bourgeoisie in Vienna. She became his mistress and was finally adopt for the purpose of financial security from him. During this period, she wore the last name Zirner wreath. She began to write, and in 1917 premiered their comedy thieves in the house in the Vienna Burgtheater. The café manor belonged to the literary circle around Gina Franz Blei. There she met the writer and psychologist Otto Kaus, whom she married in 1920. This marriage produced two sons, Otto and Peter.

Meanwhile, she wrote for the BZ am Mittag, the Vossische newspaper, The Lady and the Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung. In the following twenties Gina Kaus took after the publication of her first novel The Rise, for which they also received ( 1921) the Fontane Prize, intensely alive the literary intellectuals circle in Berlin and Vienna in part. A friendship with Karl Kraus and a relationship with Otto Soyka over which they wrote in her later autobiography, From Vienna to Hollywood " ... I had a lover, whom I did not love ", were witnesses of this bond. 1928 Gina Kaus published her first novel, The Lovers at Ullsteinhaus in Berlin. 1933 dropped their books the books extermination by the Nazis to the victim. Her novel The Sisters Kleh came in 1933 Allert de Lange out in Amsterdam. The biographical novel Catherine the Great appeared in 1935 and was a bestseller in the United States. Gina Kaus left Vienna, along with her sons and the lawyer Eduard Frischauer, with whom she was living, on 14 March 1938. The family fled via Switzerland to Paris and southern France.

On 1 September 1939 it arrived with the ship Ile de France to New York, where she lived in New York after a brief internment on Ellis Iceland a few months and was able to settle in Hollywood on November 1, 1939. There she worked primarily own stories and plays for the film. The 1940 novel authored devil next door was filmed in 1956, directed by Rolf Hansen with Lilli Palmer and Curd Jürgens in the lead roles under the title Devil in silk. In 1948 she again visited Vienna, Berlin in 1951 for the first time. However, Gina Kaus could not decide to return to Europe. She died at the age of ninety-two years on 23 December 1985 in Los Angeles.

Works (selection)

Gina Kaus wrote some of their works under the pseudonym Andreas Eckbrecht.

Discount

The estate of Gina Kaus is in " German Exile Archive 1933-1945 " of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main (EB 96/82 ).