Oddballs, Outsider, Femmes Fatales
Lindinger, Michaela
February 2015
256 pages, with numerous illustrations
256 pages, with numerous illustrations
Oddballs, Outsider, Femmes Fatales
The »Other« Vienna around 1900
NEW INSIGHTS INTO EXTRAORDINARY PERSONALITIES
Michaela Lindinger takes a look behind the scenes of the »other« Vienna around 1900: behind the suburban stages where women illegally performed as men; at the lordly rooms of Vienna’s fi rst hippies; at the burning circles of the Ringtheater; and at Vienna’s male bathhouses where you could watch an archduke being massaged with vigorous slapping. In this book, we encounter proletarians and high aristocrats, reactionaries and communards, social climbers and imposters, all of them united by the diversity of the decades between »dream and reality«, reform ideas and mass amusement, psychoanalysis and mysticism.
Michaela Lindinger studied journalism and communication science, political science, ancient history as well as Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since 1986, she has worked for museums and exhibitions, such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Belvedere, and Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. In 1995, she became an assistant curator and has worked as the curator of the Wien Museum since 2003. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions and catalogues. Most recently published by Amalthea: My Heart is Made of Stone. The dark side of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (2013).
NEW INSIGHTS INTO EXTRAORDINARY PERSONALITIES
Michaela Lindinger takes a look behind the scenes of the »other« Vienna around 1900: behind the suburban stages where women illegally performed as men; at the lordly rooms of Vienna’s fi rst hippies; at the burning circles of the Ringtheater; and at Vienna’s male bathhouses where you could watch an archduke being massaged with vigorous slapping. In this book, we encounter proletarians and high aristocrats, reactionaries and communards, social climbers and imposters, all of them united by the diversity of the decades between »dream and reality«, reform ideas and mass amusement, psychoanalysis and mysticism.
Michaela Lindinger studied journalism and communication science, political science, ancient history as well as Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since 1986, she has worked for museums and exhibitions, such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Belvedere, and Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. In 1995, she became an assistant curator and has worked as the curator of the Wien Museum since 2003. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions and catalogues. Most recently published by Amalthea: My Heart is Made of Stone. The dark side of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (2013).
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