‘Grand Hotel’ ：dialogue about Weimar Berlin

“Perhaps one reason for the instant success of Vicki Baum’s ‘Grand Hotel’ was the way in which it spoke to the anxieties of Weimar society—and of the world at large—about modern life,” writes Noah Isenberg in the introduction to a new edition of the novel, published by New York Review Books next month.

Eavesdropping on Weimar

Beneath the layers of frothy dialogue about Weimar Berlin, Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel contains a core of intense sociological and even philosophical reflections. Baum brought her readers into a complex, multi-perspectival…

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