Gina Kaus
| Gina Kaus | |
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| Born |
Regina Wiener October 21, 1893 Vienna, Austria |
| Died |
December 23, 1985 (aged 92) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1933-1975 |
| Spouse(s) |
Josef Zirner (1913–1915), his death Otto Kaus (1920-1926) divorce |
| Children | Otto and Peter |
Gina Kaus, née Regina Wiener (21 October 1893, Vienna, Austria – 23 December 1985, Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-American novelist and screenwriter.
Biography
Regina Wiener, the daughter of money broker Max Wiener, attended an all-girls school. Regina married the Viennese musician Josef Zirner in 1913, but he died in 1915 on the battlefield in World War I. She was the mistress and common law wife of the banker Josef Kranz and used the last name Zirner-Kaus. Four years later, 1920, she married the writer Otto Kaus, but the couple divorced in 1926, after the birth of two sons, Otto and Peter.
In the twenties, Gina Kaus published her first novel The Rise, which won the Theodor Fontane Prize. And was very active in the circle of literary intellectuals in Berlin and Vienna. She had friendships with both Austrian writers Karl Kraus and a romance with Otto Soyka; in her autobiography she would write "... I had a lover, I am not loved." in 1933 she would watch both their books fall victim to the Nazi Bücherverbrennung or book burnings.
Kaus had visited America in 1936. And in March 1938 she moved from Vienna via Zurich to Paris. In Paris she wrote two screenplays from her novels "Gefangnis ohne Gitter" and "Die Schwestern Kleeh", which became the popular movies "Prison sans barreaux" and "Conflict", before coming to the United states in 1939. After a few months in New York, she settled in Hollywood in November 1939. Her 1940 novel written Devil Next Door was filmed by director Rolf Hansen in 1956, with Lilli Palmer and Curt Jürgens as Teufel in Seide or the Devil in Silk. Gina Kaus wrote many scripts in Hollywood, and would not return to Vienna until 1948 and visit Berlin until 1951.
In 1979 Kaus wrote an autobiography published in Germany as : Und was für ein Leben...mit Liebe und Literatur, Theater und Film.
She died in Los Angeles in 1985.
Works
Stageplays
- Diebe im Haus, Thieves in the house
Fiction
Gina Kaus wrote some of their works under the pseudonym, "Andreas Eckbrecht".
- Der Aufstieg (The Rise) (1920)
- Der lächerliche Dritte (the Third Ridiculous) (1926)
- Die Verliebten (the Lovers) (1928)
- Toni: Eine Schulmächen-Komödie in zehn Bildern. (Toni: a schoolgirl comedy in ten pictures) (1927)
- Luxusdampfer' (Luxury Ship) (1932)
- Die Überfahrt (the Crossing) (1932)
- Die Schwestern Kleh (The sisters Kleh) (1933)
- Dark Angel (1934)
- Katharina die Große (Catherine the Great) (1935)
- Whisky and Soda (1937)
Non Fiction
- Und was für ein Leben...mit Liebe und Literatur, Theater und Film, (And what a life ... with love and literature, theatre and film) (1979) - autobiography
Film credits
- Luxury Liner (1933), novel
- Prison sans barreaux (1938), story
- Prison Without Bars (1938), play Prison sans barreaux
- Conflict (1938) (novel "Les soeurs Kleh")
- Prison Without Bars (1939), play Prison sans Barreaux
- Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939), play
- Western Mail (1942), story
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942), play
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942), screenplay, story
- They All Kissed the Bride (1942), story
- Isle of Missing Men (1942), play White Lady
- Blazing Guns (1943), story
- Camino del infierno (1946), writer
- Her Sister's Secret (1946), novel Dark Angel
- Whispering City (1947), additional dialogue
- Julia Misbehaves (1948), adaptation
- The Red Danube (1949), screenplay
- Three Secrets (1950), story "Rock Bottom", uncredited
- We're Not Married! (1952), story
- All I Desire (1953), writer
- The Robe (1953), adaptation
- Teufel in Seide (1956), novel Der Teufel nebenan
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956), 1 episode
- Wie ein Sturmwind (1957), writer
- Schloß in Tirol, Das (1957), writer
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1957), 1 episode
- Geu yeojaui joiga anida (It's Not Her Sin) (1959), novel
- Verbotenes Land (1967), German TV version
References
Notes
Bibliography
- David H. Malone: Gina Kaus. : John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka (ed.): German literature in exile since 1933. Volume 1 California. Francke, Bern and Munich 1976, S.751-761. ISBN 3-7720-1158-6
- Sibylle Mulot: Last word on Gina Kaus. : Gina Kaus from Vienna to Hollywood. Memories of Gina Kaus. TB 1757. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, S.239-251. ISBN 3-518-38257-8
- Hartmut Vollmer: Gina Kaus. In: Richard B. Kilcher (ed.): Metzlers lexicon of German-Jewish literature. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart and Weimar 2000, S.301-303. ISBN 3-476-01682-X
External links
- Gina Kaus at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Gina Kaus in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Ancestors and Family Connections for the ZWIEBACK Family Name'
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