Paul Kammerer – Seriality

PraterhauptalleeKammerer’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 »

Jeanette Lips von Lipstrill – Pocket Lark

Jeanette Lips von LipstrillTo 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Max Steiner – King Kong

Praterstrasse 72A 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“, Read the rest of this entry »