Grand Hotel

Cruel Berlin. Cruel loneliness. Weimar Germany, March 1929, shortly before the economic crisis. Flipping in through the revolving doors, Austrian author Vicki Baum (1888 1960) draws the reader into the lobby of the ‘Grand Hotel’ – the archetype of which is so sumptuously conveyed in Wes Anderson......more

English: Grand Hotel Female writers from the time of the Weimar Republic are currently getting rediscovered, and I'm here for it! Baum was a Jewish author born in Vienna in 1888, she trained as a concert harpist at the conservatory, got divorced, married a conductor and became a writer. In the 1920's......more

GRAND HOTEL (1929) was a massive success when it was published: it became a bestseller, it sparked a new genre, it was turned into a Broadway play and adapted twice for Hollywood. It is a delightful, entertaining book which does not shy away from some mild social critique. The novel is set in Berlin......more