Hugo Bettauer(1872-1925)
- Writer
Hugo Maximilian Bettauer was born in Baden near Vienna (Austria). He
was an Austrian-American author and journalist. In 1899 he immigrated
to New York and became an American citizen. He was a correspondent and
an editor for various newspapers in the US. He was famous for writing
"Fortsetzungsromane" (novels in magazines, to be continued). In 1910 he
returned to his home country Austria. From 1914 to 1918 he was an
editor for the "Neue Freie Presse" (The New Free Press). In 1924 he
worked together with R. Olden as a publisher of the magazine "Er und
Sie. Wochenschrift fuer Lebenskultur und Erotik" (A weekly magazine for
life culture and erotic), which was discontinued after 5 issues. His
famous novel was "Die freudlose Gasse" (The Street of Sorrow), 1924,
which was made into a film in 1925 by the Austrian film director G.W.
Pabst in Berlin. This made Greta Garbo famous in Germany. Bettauer was
assassinated by a national socialist fanatic in Vienna in 1925.