delirium clemens

“In most films Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I are portrayed as a dream couple. If we look a little more closely, however, we find that they were only too human, with their flaws, addictions, compulsions and often capricious preferences.” Text on Habsburg films, books and an exhibition
(c) wieninternational.at 2012PS. I am not sure if this is really the “dark side of the Habsburgs” (in this context, also see the “Schwarzbuch der Habsburger“, ed. by Leidinger et al., Vienna: Deuticke 2003). However, the “Sisi Myth” about the “Lady Die” of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has at least been shattered and proven to be for sissies; it took a long time…

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