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Vicki Baum correspondence and film typescript
Collection — Pamphlet-binder 1: [Barcode: 31275058596728]
Identifier: 6267
Abstract
The Vicki Baum correspondence and film typescript consists of four typed letters signed "Vicki" on "Vicki Baum" letterhead, along with an unpublished draft for a film titled "Conspiracy (Working Title for Sands O' Life)." The correspondence is addressed to Baum's publisher Malcolm Johnsohn and his wife Mathilde Whitridge Johnson. Baum wrote the first three letters in 1943 and the fourth letter in 1946. The draft of the script for "Conspiracy (Working Title for Sands O' Life)"--authored by...
Dates:
1943 - 1946
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Lion Feuchtwanger papers
Collection
Identifier: 0204
Abstract
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a celebrated German-Jewish novelist and outspoken enemy of the Nazis. He began his literary career as a theater critic and turned his talent to writing plays in the 1910s and 1920s. He first became internationally known for his historical novel Jud Süss published in 1925. In 1933, he went into exile in Southern France and in 1941 he emigrated to the United States. He was an important figure in intellectual and artistic circles in Los Angeles during the...
Dates:
1906 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1958
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod
Collection
Identifier: 6246
Abstract
The Eduard Frank correspondence with Joseph Brod consists of a collection of letters written between Eduard Frank and Joseph Brod from 1953 to 1981. Eduard Frank was born in historical Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. After settling in Germany following World War II, Frank authored one book, Gustav Meyrink, Werk und Wirkung (1957) and served as editor on another book, Das Haus zur Letzten Latern: Nachgelassenes und...
Dates:
1953 - 1981
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Friedrich Hacker papers
Collection
Identifier: 6208
Abstract
Friedrich (Frederick) Hacker was a distinguished psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and cultural figure. Born in Vienna in 1914, Hacker left Austria soon after the Anschluss and made his way to Los Angeles via New York and Topeka, Kansas. In Los Angeles, Hacker founded the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills (1945) where he treated numerous Hollywood filmmakers and actors and where he socialized with other well-known members of the German-speaking émigré community. Hacker went on to become a...
Dates:
circa 1940s-1980s
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Oscar Homolka papers
Collection
Identifier: 0205
Abstract
This collection consists of manuscripts written by Oscar Homolka during his stay in Southern California. The collections also contains some photographs and ephemera relating to Homolka.
Dates:
1935 - 1960
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Fritz Kortner "Ein Traum, kein Leben" annotated script
Item — Pamphlet-binder 1: [Barcode: 31275058603326]
Identifier: 6280
Scope and Contents
A heavily annotated script for a work by Fritz Kortner (1892-1970), one of Austria's best-known character actors and the nation's foremost performer of Expressionist work. Kortner titled this early working draft Ein Traum, kein Leben, but he later renamed the work Donauwellen and turned it into a play that was first performed in Munich in 1949. Kortner wrote the draft titled Ein Traum, kein...
Dates:
1946 September
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Marta Mierendorff papers
Collection
Identifier: 0214
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera regarding the lives and work of many German-speaking emigre artists in Southern California.
One focus of the collection are German Expressionist Theater director Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) and his brother-in-law, the actor and director Fritz Jessner (1889-1946), both of whom left Germany in the 1930s to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. The collection also includes more extensive materials on Walter...
Dates:
1933 - 1985
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Grete Mosheim papers
Collection
Identifier: 0211
Abstract
This collection includes personal and business correspondence of the German-born actress Grete Mosheim(1905-1986), and articles and interviews covering Mosheim's acting career from the American and German press.
Dates:
1929-1986
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Joseph Roos papers
Collection
Identifier: 0313
Abstract
This collection contains papers documenting the activities of Joseph Roos (1905-1999) from his retirement from the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council in 1969 until his death in 1999. These papers include correspondence, research files, memoranda and publications. Some documentation of Roos's earlier activities investigating the activities of the German Bund in Los Angeles in the 1930s is also present.
Dates:
1921 - 1999
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275058596496]
Identifier: 6261
Abstract
The Wagner and Hubner families correspondence with the Wenger family consist of 49 letters sent to Clayton P. Wenger and Suie S. Wenger, a Mennonite couple in Pennsylvania involved in charitable work among displaced and impoverished families in Austria during the years following World War II. The collection includes ten letters from Mr. and Mrs. Karl Wagner, a displaced couple living in Linz, Austria, and 36 letters from the Hubner family, a large and destitute family in Vienna. The Wengers...
Dates:
1947 - 1951
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections