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Paul Elbogen (November 11, 1894 — June 10, 1987) was an Austrian-American writer and editor. He is remembered as the author of Dearest Mothers (1942) and The Jealous Mistress (1953).
Life and career
Elbogen was born on November 11, 1894, in Vienna, Austria. His father, Friedrich Elbogen, was a well-known criminal lawyer of the old Austria-Hungary.
Elbogen spent his youth in the middle of the "Jeunesse dorée" in the Viennese coffeehouses, where he saw and got to know the great musicians and writers of his time, including Alban Berg, Karl Kraus, and Peter Altenberg.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Vienna.
After World War I, he married Stella Singer in 1918, who died in Santa Anna, Los Angeles in 1922. After a position as executive secretary and editor at Rikola Verlag in Vienna, he became editor of the society magazine "Moderne Welt".
In 1929, he married Minnerl Rogler and went with her to Berlin, where he worked as a writer and editor of men's magazine "Blau-rot" and was the editor of high-circulation anthologies at Rowohlt.
Elbogen came to the United States during the 1930s and served as a writer and technical adviser from 1941 to 1955 for several film production studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal-International, Paramount, and Columbia.
A few movies on which he served as a technical adviser:
- Douglas Sirk's Hitler's Madman (1943)
- Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
- Billy Wilder's The Emperor Waltz (1948)
- Richard Oswald's The Lovable Cheat (1949)
- Robert Siodmak's The Great Sinner (1949)
Selected books
- (1963) Book (ed.): Genius im Werden
- (1960) Novel: Der Dunkle Stern
- (1949) Novel: Dram (aka "The Jealous Mistress").
- (1933) Biographies: Kometen des Geldes
- (1933) Book (essays): Verlassene Frauen
- (1932) Book (ed.): Lieber Vatter
- (1930) Book (ed.): Geliebter Sohn
- (1929) Book (ed.): Liebste Mutter (aka "Dearest Mother: Letters from Famous Sons to Their Mothers").
Death
Elbogen and his family died in an automobile accident on June 10, 1987, in Revelstoke, Canada. He was 92.