Victoria Wolff

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Victoria Wolff , née Trude Victoria Victor (born December 10, 1903 in Heilbronn , † September 16, 1992 in Los Angeles ), was an American writer and screenwriter of German origin. She herself often gave 1908 as the year of birth.

Life

Victoria Wolff grew up as the daughter of the Jewish leather manufacturer Jacob Victor (1869–1918) in Heilbronn, where Albert Einstein , who was a distant relative, tried briefly to give tutoring in mathematics. There she was the first girl to graduate from high school in 1922. Her journalistic career began in the 1920s with reports for the local Neckar newspaper . The Frankfurter Zeitung , the Kölnische Zeitung , the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt and Die Dame followed later, and finally short stories for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk .

From 1932 onwards, the author's first novels appeared , which meanwhile with the textile manufacturer Dr. Alfred Max Wolf was married and had two children. Due to the publication ban after the National Socialist seizure of power , she emigrated with her children to Ascona on April 1, 1933 . In 1941 she finally managed to enter the USA via Nice and Lisbon . In 1945 she was divorced; In 1949 she married the Berlin doctor Dr. Erich Wolff. Have said this to: "After me, you no one can marry more than one wolf with three, f 'does not exist!" .

Victoria Wolff was a frequent guest in Heilbronn between 1949 and 1985. The former secondary school, where she graduated from high school, is now called Robert-Mayer-Gymnasium and has been awarding the Victoria Wolff Prize for above-average performance in the fields of art, music, literature and theater since 2002. Her daughter Julie Amador was present at the first award ceremony in Heilbronn in 2002.

Works

Unless otherwise stated, the title was published under the name "Victoria Wolf" (in different spellings).

  • A woman like you and me. Novel of love about George Sand . Reissner, Dresden 1932
  • A woman has courage . Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1933
  • Girl where Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1933
  • The world is blue. A summer novel from Ascona . Library of contemporary works, Zurich 1934
  • Guest in the home . Novel. Querido, Amsterdam 1935
  • Happiness is a quality . Roman (as Ellinor Colling). Verbano, Locarno 1937
  • Three days . Novel. Humanitas, Zurich 1937
  • King in the Valley of the Kings . Novel. Alemann, Buenos Aires 1945
  • The white evening dress . Novel. Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main 1951
  • No time for tears . Roman (as Claudia Martell). Schneekluth, Darmstadt 1954
    • New edition as: The time of tears is passing . Heyne, Munich 1969
  • City without innocence . Novel. Schneekluth, Darmstadt 1956
  • Brides for america . Novel. Heyne, Munich 1962
  • Another man . Novel. Hestia, Bayreuth 1962
  • Mother and daughter . Novel. German Book Association, Berlin 1964
  • Lies have long legs . Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1964
  • Love on Cape Kennedy . Novel. Lichtenberg, Munich 1970

literature

  • Amelie Heinrichsdorff: Just a woman? Critical studies on the literary neglect of the exiled writers in Los Angeles: Ruth Berlau , Marta Feuchtwanger , Gina Kaus and Victoria Wolff . UMI, Ann Arbor 1999
  • Anke Heimberg: Emigration is a rehab treatment. Life and work of the exiled writer Victoria Wolff . In: German-language exile literature since 1933 , Volume 3 (USA), Part 5. Saur, Munich 2005, pp. 271–301, ISBN 3-908255-42-2
  • Anke Heimberg: Emigration is a rehab treatment. Life and work of the exile writer Victoria Wolff , in: John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3. USA: Part 5 . Bern: KG Saur, 2005 ISBN 3-908255-42-2 , pp. 271-301

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Uwe Jacobi, At eight the cock crows. Stories from Altheilbronn , Gudensberg-Gleichen (Wartberg-Verlag) 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1371-7 , pp. 60-65, the family name was written with k.
  2. ^ Society for Exile Research e. V. (PDF; 234 KB), No. 23 (June 2004), p. 7f, ISSN  0946-1957
  3. ↑ John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka, Sandra H. Hawrylchak: German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3: USA . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-9082-5542-2 ( German exile literature since 1933. Volume 5), p. 272
  4. ↑ Uwe Jacobi, At eight the cock crows. Stories from Altheilbronn , Gudensberg-Gleichen (Wartberg-Verlag) 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1371-7 , p. 60
  5. ↑ biography
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Victor, Trude Victoria (maiden name); Wolf, Victoria; Wolf, Victoria Trude; Wolf, Victoria T .; Wolff, Viktoria; Collins, Eleanor (pseudonym); Colling, Eleanor (pseudonym); Martell, Claudia (pseudonym); Baysen, Hans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1992
Place of death los Angeles