Johann Gottfried Bremser – Visceral Organs’ Worms

Napoleon didn’t succeed in stealing the Viennese visceral organs’ worms!
Bremser would have deserved such an appreciative headline. In 1809 the „Worm Medical Doctor“ prevented the plundering of the then worldwide largest helminths’ collection during the occupation of Vienna in the United Imperial and Royal Natural History Cabinets the predecessor of the today Natural History Museum.

Franz Kafka – Number 12

“When my organism realised that writing was the most productive direction of myself then everything went into that direction leaving all skills directed towards the pleasures of sex, eating, drinking,… empty. It was necessary as my energy was so limited that bundled it only reasonably could solve the purpose of writing“

This way of living led Kafka to the „most beautiful and largest laryngological hospitals of the world“ on 10th April 1924. To Vienna

Jeanette Lips von Lipstrill – Pocket Lark

To disengage oneself, to loosen up, to keep cool. Life could be so easy!

Jeanette Lips von Lipstrill accomplished it. Born as Rudolf Schmidt she develops herself with a lot of courage, dance, music on an adventurous journey from Munich through Europe and the Orient into a woman, into an Art Whistler and settles in Vienna. And whistles like having a lark in her pocket.

Max Steiner – King Kong

A young Austrian composer leaves Vienna to find his way into the world. He starts writing scores in America in 1916.

With the score for „King Kong“ (1933) he succeeds in Hollywood. „Little Lord Fauntleroy“, „Gone with the Wind“, „Casablanca“, „Arsenic and Old Lace“,

Two Female Singers, Two Male Singers – Survivors

One tenor, one bass, one soprano and one alto survive the fire and the total destruction of the Viennese Ringtheater in 1881. And still today you can listen to the „Singing Quartet“ in the Schloßpark Pötzleinsdorf where they have been living since 1882.

Their original place were the pilasters of the attic above the entry of the Ringtheater at Schottenring. The theatre had been opened as opera buffa in 1874 and extended its repertoire among others with plays. At the beginning of „Hoffmanns Erzählungen“ at the