persons Viertel, Salka

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Name Viertel, Salka
Alternative Names
  • alternative name >> maiden name: Salomea Sara Steuermann
  • alternative name: Mea Steuermann
  • ID 834
    Gender female
    Lifespan 1889-06-15 - 1978-10-20
    Professions actor (Q33999), film screenwriter (Q69423232)
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  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/apis/api2/entity/834/
    https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/7611/
    https://d-nb.info/gnd/118626949
    Notes During the 1930s and 40s, Salka Viertel hosted a salon for artists and intellectuals at her home in Hollywood where Hollywood insiders, European émigrés, and German and Austrian refugees gathered. These gatherings not only "provided the newcomers from Europe with useful connections leading to employment [particularly in the film industry], advice how to negotiate the new environment, practical assistance and emotional support" but also constituted a venue for antifascist political activism (see Schreckenberger 2016, 161-78). As many others, she was watched by the FBI and struggled to find work due to her political engagement and presumed communist leanings.
    References For her biography see Prager, Katharina. " 'Ich bin nicht gone Hollywood!' Salka Viertel – ein Leben in Theater und Film." Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, 2007. Schreckenberger, Helga. "Salka Viertel's Transnational Hollywood Network." Networks of Refugees from Nazi Germany. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 161-78.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1920 related >> worked for/at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
    related >> was member of Hollywood Anti-Nazi-League
    related >> was member of Screen Writers Guild
    1910 related >> worked for/at Pressburger Stadttheater
    1913 related >> worked for/at Neue Wiener Bühne
    1923 established >> founding member of Die Truppe
    1946 1946 related >> worked for/at Warner Brothers Pictures
    1933 1943-05 related >> worked for/at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
    established >> founder of Hanns Eisler Defense Committee

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1918 1947 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Viertel, Berthold
    related >> student of Römpler, Alexander
    related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Garbo, Greta
    related >> acquainted with Einstein, Albert
    related >> acquainted with Ėjzenštejn, Sergej M.
    1944 1944 related >> collaborated with Brecht, Bertolt
    related >> acquainted with Chaplin, Charlie
    related >> acquainted with Hemingway, Ernest
    related >> acquainted with Schönberg, Arnold
    related >> friendship with Mann, Heinrich

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1978-10-20 related >> died in Klosters
    1889-06-15 related >> born in Sambir
    1929 related >> moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
    1929-06-01 related >> stayed in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA
    1953 related >> stayed in Klosters
    1931 1944 related >> lived at 165 Mabery Road, Santa Monica
    1960 related >> moved to Klosters
    1933 1953 related >> owner of 165 Mabery Road, Santa Monica

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    related >> wrote >> author of The Kindness of Strangers (Das unbelehrbare Herz)
    1933 related >> wrote >> wrote the screenplay of Queen Christina
    1934 related >> wrote >> wrote the screenplay of The Painted Veil
    1935 related >> wrote >> wrote the screenplay of Anna Karenina
    1937 related >> wrote >> wrote the screenplay of Conquest
    1941 related >> wrote >> wrote the screenplay of The Two Faced Woman

    Label

    Label Start End Label type ISO Code
    Salomea Sara Steuermann alternative name >> maiden name deu
    Mea Steuermann alternative name deu
    Viertel, Salka Legacy name (merge) deu

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