Wolff, Victoria, 1903-1992

Victoria Wolff was born at Heilbronn in South Germany, December 10, 1908; BA, University of Munich (1929); MA, University of Lausanne (1931); left Germany (1933) and spent the next six years in Ascona, Switzerland working as a freelance writer; moved to America (1941); worked as scenarist and film scripter for both 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer; foreign correspondent for Madame and contributor to Swiss and German magazines; various writings include Fabulous city (1957), And seven shall die (1954), and The white evening dress (1941); died ca. 1990s.

Victoria Wolff (10 December 1903 –16 September 1992), a German born American writer and screenwriter. Born Gertrude Victor in Heilbronn 10 December 1903, to the Jewish leather manufacturer Jacob Victor, Wolff often gave her birth year as 1908 Her bachelor's degree was from the University of Munich in 1929. Wolff completed her master's degree at the University of Lausanne in 1931. She started writing reports for local newspapers and worked her way through a number of bigger publications including the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Kölnische Zeitung, the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt and Die Dame before getting short stories published in Süddeutscher Rundfunk.[2][3][4][5][6] Wolff married textile manufacturer Dr. Alfred Max Wolf with whom she had two children. Her first novel was published in 1932 and her second came out the following year but once the Nazi party came to power she failed to get membership of the Reich Association of German Writers. She needed that to be published. Officially it was in 1939 that she was banned from publication. As a result she travelled around Europe from 1933 when she moved to Ascona until 1941 when she left Nice and Lisbon to enter the US. During her time in Switzerland Wolff worked without problem until 1938. . As a result she managed to leave Europe and head for the United States. She divorced her first husband, finalized in the late 1940s and in 1949 she married the Berliner Dr. Erich Wolff. She continued writing essays, stories, novels and screenplays.[2][4][5][6][7]

After the end of the Second World War, Wolff was able to return to Heibronn which she did regularly from 1949 to 1985. She died in Los Angeles on September 16, 1992. She is remembered in her school, now the Robert Mayer Gymnasium with a Prize for performance in art, music, literature and theater. In 2002 Julie Amador, her daughter, attended the first award ceremony.[2][4][5][6]