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        Vicki Baum: Ausgewählte Werke. Kommentierte Ausgabe. Bd. 4: Leben ohne Geheimnis

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        Tezarek, Laura
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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.
         
        Vicki Baum greift im 1932 bei Ullstein erschienenen Roman „Leben ohne Geheimnis“ aktuelle Themen und Diskurse in der Umbruchsphase vom Stummfilm zum Tonfilm auf: der Film als neues Massenprodukt, die Anfänge der ‚Celebrity Culture‘, die Selbstvermarktung der Stars mit der Ausschlachtung des Privatlebens für PR-Zwecke, die Kulturindustrie mit ihrer Fankultur. Sie stellt Hollywood – das sie selbst kennenlernte, als sie an der Verfilmung ihres Romans „Menschen im Hotel“ mitwirkte – als Sehnsuchtstopos dar, in welchem ihre Figuren in unterschiedlichen Stadien der Desillusionierung agieren und konfrontiert sie mit der kapitalistischen Profitgier der Filmproduktionsfirmen; sie zeigt, dass sexuelle Ausbeutung schon um 1930 in der Filmbranche allgegenwärtig war. Mit filmaffinen Erzählmitteln führt sie vor, wie sich die Figuren im Spiel von Schein und Wirklichkeit verhalten, als Emigrant:innen alte Identitäten verlieren und neue ausbilden.
         
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        https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106414
        Keywords
        History of literature; ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- History of literature (602031); Cultural history; ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Other Humanities (605) -- Other Humanities (6050) -- Cultural history (605002); Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000; 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); Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary; Thema Subject Codes -- Fiction and Related items (F) -- Fiction: general and literary (FB) -- Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary (FBA); Vicki Baum; literature; novel; cinema; Hollywood; Literaturgeschichte; ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Literaturgeschichte (602031); Kulturgeschichte; ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Andere Geisteswissenschaften (605) -- Andere Geisteswissenschaften (6050) -- Kulturgeschichte (605002); Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000; Thema Klassifizierung -- Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft (D) -- Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik (DS) -- Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein (DSB) -- Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 (DSBH); Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch; Thema Klassifizierung -- Belletristik und verwandte Gebiete (F) -- Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch (FB) -- Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch (FBA); Vicki Baum; Literatur; Roman; Film; Hollywood
        DOI
        10.46500/83535861-04
        Publication date and place
        2025
        Grantor
        • FWF - HASH(0x57b261e7f1d0)
        Imprint
        Wallstein
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        http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
        • Harvested from FWF

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        • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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