30.10.2021
Karl Kraus was rarely in a really good mood and never actually laughed, but the fact that he dubbed Vienna an "experimental station for the end of the world" is quite something. Alfred Polgar, on the other hand, saw Vienna as a "merry grave on the Danube," which sounds a bit more appealing and is more reminiscent of a wine-loving Viennese song. We follow the voluntary and involuntary traces of the dead and the undead, the buried and the washed up, the tortured and the supposedly foolish in Vienna.
Anyone who strolls through Vienna's quaint old town today and is receptive to it often comes across the city's dark past - you just have to keep your eyes open. Or have a travel guide and tourist guide who will take you to exactly these "Platzerln".
... or so a song by Georg Kreisler goes. I'd say let's go explore some graves!
It really doesn't always have to be the Albertina or the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Truly, why not just turn away from the fair art and turn to those museums that occupy the less beautiful sides of life? We are not surprised that there are several of them in Vienna.
The coolest stories are told by Vienna's tour guides, who point out one or the other spooky feature during a "guided tour" through Vienna's neighborhoods.
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Angelika Mandler-Saul, who grew up in the Weinviertel region in Lower Austria, is a travel blogger and freelance author. Since 2013 she has been writing about her experiences and impressions while travelling throughout the world on www.wiederunterwegs.com. Her focus: nature and culture. She is regularly accompanied by her sooty black labrador Coffee, who is also good for many stories.
Angelika is particularly fond of travelling in her native country Austria, bringing her love of Austrian history and literature, travelling and writing under one roof. Travelling with culture: that sums it up precisely.
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