Victoria Wolff

Victoria Wolff
Born	10 December 1903 Heilbronn
Died	16 September 1992 Los Angeles
Nationality	American, German
Other names	Ellinor Colling Claudia Martell Hans Baysen Trude Wolf [1]

Victoria Wolff (10 December 1903 –16 September 1992), a German born American writer and screenwriter.

Biography

Born Gertrude Victor in

Wolff published her first novel, Eine Frau wie du und ich, in 1932, and her second, Mädchen, wohin?, came out the following year. When the Nazi party came to power, however, she was barred from the Reich Association of German Writers on account of her Jewishness, and she went into exile in Switzerland in April 1933. She first settled in Ascona, writing prolifically until 1938, when she was no longer permitted to write for the Swiss media. When she circumvented this rule using a pen name, she was deported from the country. She moved to France and settled in Nice, but after the German invasion of 1940 she was arrested on supposed grounds of espionage and was jailed for six weeks. She found refuge in the United States in 1941 and eventually settled in Los Angeles, where she had success as a Hollywood screenwriter. She divorced her first husband in the late 1940s and in 1949 married Erich Wolff. She continued writing essays, stories, novels, and screenplays.^{[2][4][5][6][7]}

After the end of the