The Accidental Caregiver

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The Accidental Caregiver
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The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann is a 2012 memoir by Gregor Collins, recounting the three years he was a caregiver for Maria Altmann,[1] as well as a stageplay, which premiered at the Robert Moss Theater in New York City on January 26, 2015.[2]

Book

In late 2007 a friend of Collins's, Tom Trudeau, answered an ad on

Holocaust refugee Maria Altmann.[3]

Aside from their day-to-day relationship chronicled in journal-entry-style chapters, the book depicts Maria's childhood in pre-Hitler Vienna as a member of the influential Bloch-Bauer family, and the family's relationship with the painter

Placido Domingo, Danny Thomas, Gary Cooper, Ezio Pinza, Paul Henreid and others, and Altmann and her husband Fritz's escape from Austria during the Anschluss, fleeing through Holland, England and Massachusetts, and their eventual nesting in Los Angeles.[5]

In 2012, a year and a half after Altmann's death, Collins published his book to commemorate the 37 months they spent together, meticulously detailing their chance meeting and unusual bond, culminating in Altmann's death in early 2011. The book received favorable reviews in the US,[6][7] as well as in the Australian, German and Austrian press.[8][9]

The book was also sold at the Neue Galerie New York, where the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I remains in permanent collection.

In 2015 a translated version of the book was published in Poland.[10]

Collins has spoken at various venues around the world sharing his experience as Altmann's caregiver, including Richmond's historic Tuckahoe Woman's Club, The Brotherhood Synagogue in

Central Synagogue, Sydney, and the Bendat Centre in Perth, sponsored by the Women's International Zionist Organization.[13][14][15]

Stageplay

The Accidental Caregiver stageplay world premiered at the Robert Moss Theater in New York City on January 26, 2015, and was directed by British theatre director Alice Kornitzer.[2][16] The play was also presented as a staged reading at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York on June 25, 2015. Directed by Collins, Actors Christian Scheider and Rochelle Slovin read the parts of Gregor and Maria, respectively.[17][12]

Sequel

The book's sequel, The Accidental Caregiver Part II: Saying Yes to a World without Maria Altmann, was released in July 2020 by Balboa Press, a division of Hay House.[18]

See also

Editions

References

  1. ^ "Gregor Collins Talks Life, Love & Maria Altmann". HuffPost. June 26, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "THE ACCIDENTAL CAREGIVER". Venus Theater Festival. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  3. TheGuardian.com
    . March 27, 2015.
  4. ^ "The Accidental Caregiver: Maria Altmann, Austria and Nazi Art Theft with Gregor Collins". YouTube. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  5. ^ "Adele Bloch-Bauer". Jwa.org. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  6. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: The Accidental Caregiver by Gregor Collins. Bloch-Bauer Books, $9.99 (378p) ASIN B0092GS96K".
  7. ^ Weiss, Holly (September 2, 2012). "Book Review: The Accidental Caregiver by Gregor Collins". seattlepi.com. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  8. ^ Davis, Rebecca. "Illuminating the Woman in Gold". www.australianjewishnews.com. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  9. ^ ""Es war Liebe auf den ersten Satz": 32-Jähriger findet die Liebe seines Lebens - in 92-Jähriger - FOCUS Online".
  10. ^ "Wydawnictwo Replika".
  11. ^ ""Love Maria" the Caregiver Behind the Woman in Gold". April 15, 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Austrian Cultural Forum New York: Event". www.acfny.org. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015.
  13. ^ "WIZO Event". WIZO. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  14. ^ "Gregor Collins - AJN". Australian Jewish News. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  15. ^ "JC3 Cultural Center". JC3. March 3, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  16. ^ http://www.bestofoffbroadway.com/show/the-accidental-caregiver/
  17. ^ "New York: STAGED READING | THE ACCIDENTAL CAREGIVER (Presented by the ACF New York) — Austria". Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  18. ^ "Gregor Collins - Caregiver sequel". Balboa Press. Retrieved July 12, 2020.

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