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Vicki Baum: Ausgewählte Werke. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Bd. 4: Leben ohne Geheimnis
Laura Tezarek
2025
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In her novel “Leben ohne Geheimnis” (Engl.: “Falling Star”), published by Ullstein in 1932, Vicki Baum takes up current topics and discourses in the transition phase from silent movies to so-called “talkies”: film as a new mass product, the beginnings of 'celebrity culture', the self-marketing of stars with the exploitation of their private lives for PR purposes, the culture industry with its fan culture. She presents Hollywood – which she got to know when she was involved in the production of the film adaption of her novel “Menschen im Hotel” (Engl.: “Grand Hotel”) – as “Sehnsuchtstopos” (“topos of longing”) in which her characters act in various stages of disillusionment, and confronts them with the film production companies‘ capitalist greed for profit; she shows that sexual exploitation was already omnipresent in the film industry around 1930. Using cinematic narrative techniques, she demonstrates how the characters behave in the game of appearance and reality, how they lose old identities and form new ones as emigrants.
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Keywords
- Cinéma
- Cultural history
- Film
- History of Literature
- hollywood
- Kulturgeschichte
- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
- Literatur
- Literature
- Literaturgeschichte
- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000
- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
- Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch
- Novel
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- ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Literaturgeschichte (602031)
- ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- History of literature (602031)
- ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Other Humanities (605) -- Other Humanities (6050) -- Cultural history (605002)
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- Thema Klassifizierung -- Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete (F) -- Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch (FB) -- Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch (FBA)
- Thema Subject Codes -- Biography, Literature and Literary studies (D) -- Literature: history and criticism (DS) -- Literary studies: general (DSB) -- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 (DSBH)
- Thema Subject Codes -- Fiction and Related items (F) -- Fiction: general and literary (FB) -- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary (FBA)
- Vicki Baum
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DOI: 10.46500/83535861-04Editions