!!!Bettauer, Hugo Maximilian

b. Baden (Lower Austria), Aug. 18, 1872, 
d. Vienna, March 26, 1925 (murdered), writer and journalist. 1899 
moved to New York and took American citizenship; correspondent and 
literary editor on various newspapers (serialized novels); 1910 
returned to Austria; 1914-1918 on the editorial staff of the Austrian 
daily "Neue Freie Presse"; 1924 with R. Olden editor of the magazine 
"Er und Sie. Wochenschrift fuer Lebenskultur und Erotik" ("He and She. 
Life-Style and Erotic Weekly"), which ceased publication after five 
editions; his novel "Die freudlose Gasse", 1924 ("Street without 
Happiness") was adapted for the screen in 1925 by G. W. Pabst and 
featured G. Garbo. B. was murdered by a National Socialist fanatic.

!Works
Die Stadt ohne Juden, 1922; Der Kampf um Wien, 1923; Die 
freudlose Gasse, 1924; Das entfesselte Wien, 1924. - Edition: 
Gesammelte Werke, 6 vols., 1980.

!Literature
M. G. Hall, Der Fall B., 1978.



%%language
[Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Bettauer,_Hugo_Maximilian|class='wikipage austrian']
%%

[{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}]
[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]