Wilhelm Beetz – To satisfy Viennese needs

That nightmare: You need to go to the toilet urgently. Searching, running, asking – nothing helps. Nowhere a toilette. Depending on your personality the dream may continue in different fatal ways. What if a man or a women would appear, covered in a wide coat that covers a wooden bucket too. The bucket to sit on – the coat to cover you. Would you dare to end your problem for just two kreutzers?

These Buttenmänner and Buttenweiber (wooden bucket men, wooden bucket women) did exist really in Vienna at the beginning 19th century and this already meant some hygienic improvement. Because the situation in Vienna was upsetting: “heavy-weight air”, “harmful evaporations”, “like in fog”, a higher mortality rate than in Paris and London.

Karl Landsteiner (Teil 2) – Viennese Plaques

2008-02
A new plaque.

2008-01-17
You can rely on Viennese commitment for its past. The damaged plaque was removed. As soon as a new one is there I will post the photo here.

2008-01-12
Landsteiner – one of the astonishingly many Medicine Nobel Prize Laureates from Vienna (born here or studied or taught in Vienna) did I portrait here. A pleasant surprise for me was when I saw that he attended the same school that Stefan Zweig attended. Somewhat embarrassing is the condition of the plaque in the Wasagasse in the 9th district.

Nobel Prize Laureates from Vienna

Karl Anton von Martini – Right Vienna

Do I make a (fishy) compromise and prevent a defeat. Or is a (fishy) compromise the bigger defeat for my consciousness.
I get these ideas when I look at the ups and downs in Martinis’ life in the many socio-political areas of conflicts where he was active. Because Martini (1726 – 1800) quite often stood to his knowledge, insights and beliefs even if this was not wise strategically. Perhaps his way of living was based on a belief like this: “If we don’t make concessions we can collapse but never get spoiled.”*

Karl Anton Martini was born in Revò thirty kilometres north of Trient. The Bishop Principality at that time was a “paradise for lawyers and notaries”. Affected by this he arrives via the