artists of the 20th
How a dictionary of artists to the first half of last century, read the names of friends who Salomea mate, everyone called only Salka to gather knew: Karl Kraus and Alfred Polgar, Max Reinhardt, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Albert Einstein and Arnold Schoenberg, Sergei Eisenstein and Greta Garbo, whose screenplay writer she was, Bertolt Brecht and Frank Bruno, Charlie Chaplin and Fritz Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor, Hanns Eisler - and many other artists ... with and without a name.
This fascinating and early emancipated Salka Viertel was not a Hollywood movie star and not a high society lady, but a gifted hostess, who made her house on Mabery Road Santa Monica to the much vaunted Salon - after a "haven for the homeless", the European immigrants after 1933.
Salka Viertel's memoirs, the late 60s in the United States appeared and disappeared since then forget to visualize the dramatic decades of European cultural history, especially the world of theater and film until 1933 and the exile of this culture in California.
Salka Viertel, the unteachable heart: memories of a life with artists of the 20th Century
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