“Can you write a history of the year 1913 and ignore the disaster waiting around the corner? With the centenary of the First World War approaching that may sound perverse, yet it is precisely what Die Zeit journalist Florian Illies tries to do in his new book, which was a bestseller in Germany when it was published there last year.” >review (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
A century ago, the city of Vienna played host to Hitler,
Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.”
>full text with more photos & a map (c) BBC, 2013
>audio file (interview with Charles Emmerson & Dardis McNamee)
(the same facts are also mentioned in the German 1913 book by Florian Illies)
“The Skandalkonzert of March 31, 1913 was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg in the Great Hall of the Musikverein (Vienna Concert Society). “The audience, shocked by the expressionism and experimentalism of the Second Viennese School, began rioting, and the concert was ended prematurely. The fight between a concert organizer and Oscar Straus led to a trial.”
(c) WIKIPEDIA >more Illustration: caricature from DIE ZEIT, 6 April 1913
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
delirium clemens 