What helps us to find our place in life? Our parents and talents passed on to us? A good school? Other people we look up to or who help us in our live?
1748/50 the choirboy Joseph Haydn had to leave the Konvikt due to the breaking of his voice and his naughtiness. Would his live have been the same when he had not moved into the Große Michaelerhaus in 1751 to meet Metastasio and Porpora? Read the rest of this entry »
Admittedly, that’s not quite correct. This kitchen is the “Frankfurt kitchen”. And still it also is a little bit Viennese kitchen.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, creator of this kitchen, was born in Vienna and died in Vienna (1897 – 2000). Although she lived in Frankfurt, Moscow, Istanbul and Sofia, she spent more than 80 years in Vienna and loved Vienna. Read the rest of this entry »
Kammerer’s portrait could be put up in the categories natural sciences, music, education and love. He was one of the many interesting hybrid Viennese figures.
Paul Kammerer (1880 – 1926) studied zoology and worked at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (Biological Experimental Station), the former Vivarium, at the Prater Hauptallee (photo of the Prater Hauptallee today, the building does no longer exist). He became Read the rest of this entry »
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