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Hugo Bettauer (18 August 1872 – 26 March 1925), born Maximilian Hugo Bettauer, was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his controversial views. He was very well known in his lifetime; many of his books were bestsellers and in the 1920s a number were made into films, most notably Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1925), which dealt with prostitution, and Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, directed by Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924), a satire against anti-Semitism.

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Selected works

Major novels

  • Im Banne von New York, 1907
  • Im Kampf ums Glück, 1907 (reprint 1926)
  • Auf heißem Boden, 1907
  • Im Schatten des Todes, 1907 (reprint 1925)
  • Aus den Tiefen der Weltstadt, 1907
  • Faustrecht, 1919
  • Hemmungslos, 1920 (reprint 1988)
  • Bobbie auf der Fährte, 1921 (reprint 1926 under the title "Bobbie oder die Liebe eines Knaben")
  • Die drei Ehestunden der Elizabeth Lehndorff, 1921
  • Der Frauenmörder, 1922
  • Der Herr auf der Galgenleiter, 1922
  • Das blaue Mal, 1922
  • Die Stadt ohne Juden, 1922 (reissued 1988, 1996)
  • Der Kampf um Wien, 1922/23 (shortened edition under the title Ralph und Hilde 1926)
  • Die lustigen Weiber von Wien, 1924
  • Gekurbeltes Schicksal, 1924
  • Die freudlose Gasse, 1924 (reissued 1988)
  • Das entfesselte Wien, 1924
  • Die schönste Frau der Welt, 1924
  • Memoiren eines Hochstaplers, 1924
  • Kampf ums Glück, 1926
  • Gesammelte Werke in sechs Bänden ("Collected Works in Six Volumes"), Salzburg, 1980 (contains: Kampf um Wien/Das entfesselte Wien/Die freudlose Gasse/Die Stadt ohne Juden/Faustrecht/Hemmungslos)

Novellas

  • Der Tod einer Grete und andere Novellen, 1926
  • Geschichten aus dem Alltag, 1926

Stage plays

  • Die Stadt ohne Juden (with Hans Saßmann), 1922
  • Die blaue Liebe (with Klemens Weiß-Clewe), 1924

Newspapers / periodicals

  • Er und Sie, 14 February - 13 March 1924
  • Bettauers Wochenschrift 15 May 1924 - 26 August 1927
  • Der Bettauer Almanach für 1925, 1925




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