Gina Kaus

Infobox actor
name = Gina Kaus


imagesize = 150px
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birthname = Regina Wiener
birthdate = birth date|1893|10|21
birthplace = Austria, Austria
deathdate = death date and age|1985|12|23|1893|10|21
deathplace = Los Angeles, California, California
occupation = Novelist, Screenwriter
spouse = Josef Zirner (1913–1915), his death; Otto Kaus (1920-1926) divorce
children= Otto and Peter

Biography

Gina Kaus was born Regina Wiener daughter of a money broker Max Wiener and attended an all girl's 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

tageplays

* "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

*imdb name|0442456

Persondata
NAME= Kaus, Gina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Screenwriter, novelist
DATE OF BIRTH= October 21 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH= Vienna, Austria
DATE OF DEATH= December 23 1985
PLACE OF DEATH= Los Angeles, California, California