Otto Rank – With/Without Freud, With/Without Nin

„Und wenn Dir einst von Sohnespflicht, mein Sohn, Dein alter Vater spricht, gehorch ihm nicht, gehorch ihm nicht!“
„And if my son, your old father tells you to obey, disobey, disobey!“
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Dehmel

„Ich kam nie auf die Idee, daß er nicht tanzen kann. Stellte mir nie vor, daß Dr. Rank ein so ernsthaftes Leben geführt haben könnte, daß er nie tanzte.“
„I had no idea that he couldn’t dance. Did not imagine that Dr. Rank led such a serious life that he didn’t dance.“
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Nin

What a roller coaster ride took the live of Otto Rank (1881 – 1939) before and after these quotations!

Ukrainian Cossack – Cavalryman & Horse

In the Türkenschanzpark (Turks entrenchment park) a horse is grazing and an Ukrainian Cossack smokes his pipe. You can see this memorial as pro war or as tessera of the Viennese history.

It commemorates the second siege of Vienna by the Turkish troops in 1683. In the army of the Polish king Sobieski freeing Vienna Ukrainian Cossacks fought together with Polish soldiers. The main fight took place in September. Turkish troops entrenched themselves at the place where you can find today the Türkenschanzpark. Cossacks contributed significantly to the victory.

Among other the architect Heinrich von Ferstel suggested to build the wonderful park opened in 1888. Not only a park but a world with the Cossack memorial as well as with the Turkish Yunus-Emre-Fountain.

Cossack-Sources:
All of them are in German, sorry. But the second last one with another memorial photo and the last one with a fountain photo.
„Archivmeldung der Rathauskorrespondenz vom 11.9.2003“ (Archive of the Town Hall Correspondence 11.9.2003)
„Die Ukrainer in Wien“ (The Ukrainians in Vienna)
„Denkmal Türkenschanzpark“ (Memorial Türkenschanzpark)
„Türkenschanzpark – Geschichte“ (Türkenschanzpark – History)

Bettine von Arnim – “Viennese are Viennese, and nothing else” / “Vienna smells sweet”

I made a kind choice for the headline to show the difference in a soft way. The difference between the original exchange of letters between Bettine von Arnim and Goethe and the letters in her book „Goethe’s correspondence with a child“.

On July 28th, 1810 von Arnim (1785 – 1859) writes from Vienna in her original correspondence with Goethe „three to four weeks I have been here, the theatres I saw were below any standard, miserable clothes and even

Jean Sibelius – No member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

You have a dream. Live it? But if I can’t live on my dream?

Sibelius (1865 – 1957) came to Vienna to live eight month (1890 – 1891) here and to get composing lessons from Brahms. Only Brahms doesn’t give composing lessons any longer. Sibelius gets lessons from the composers Robert Fuchs and Karl Goldmark

Johann Georg Lahner – Frankfurt Vienna, Vienna Frankfurt

From the Prater you can go to Westbahnhof with the tram number five and just do a small „Viennese world“ trip. After a while you will get in a state of trance because there are so many details to be seen and the tram track has many bends in the district Josefstadt. Then you reach the seventh district and the tram stops at Kaiserstraße/Neustiftgasse (photo). You look out of the window, a bit exhausted, and there it is – the cradle of the famous Frankfurter/Viennese sausages.

A plaque in adequate brown colours tells you that „here the butcher family Lahner produced from 1832 to 1967 the sausages known only in Vienna as Frankfurter sausages but in the whole world as Viennese sausages“. Johann