Vienna

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Geschenkausgabe im kleinen Format, bedrucktes Ganzleinen mit Lesebändchen. Ein großer Familienroman, der anekdotisch, lebendig und eindringlich vom Geschick eines jüdischen Familienclans in Wien erzählt. Sei es Königsbee, der noch jede Redewendung verballhornt hat, sei es die Mutter, die überm Kartenspiel beinahe die Geburt des Sohnes versäumt - die Lebensfäden der verschiedensten Menschen werden über räumliche Trennung hinweg, durch die Schrecken der Naziherrschaft und über die Familienstreitereien nach dem Krieg zusammengeführt im charmanten Wien der Kaffeehäuser.

Geschenkausgabe im kleinen Format, bedrucktes Ganzleinen mit Lesebändchen. Ein großer Familienroman, der anekdotisch, lebendig und eindringlich vom Geschick eines jüdischen Familienclans in Wien erzählt. Sei es Königsbee, der noch jede Redewendung verballhornt hat, sei es die Mutter, die überm Kartenspiel beinahe die Geburt des Sohnes versäumt - die Lebensfäden der verschiedensten Menschen werden über räumliche Trennung hinweg, durch die Schrecken der Naziherrschaft und über die Familienstreitereien nach dem Krieg zusammengeführt im charmanten Wien der Kaffeehäuser.

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur —but behind the Baroque opulence, Vienna is also a place of genteel coffee house culture, epicurean tradition, and a heritage of both delicate and daring music, art, and design, from Johann Strauss to Egon Schiele, from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann. This volume is a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years , following the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis. Like a visual walk through time and cityscape , hundreds of carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna’s built environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect, whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th-century Ringstrasse or the experiments of “Red Vienna” in the 1920s, when the city had a social democrat government for the first time. Through these remarkable photographs, we discover not only the great landmarks and lesser-known corners of Vienna, but also the ubiquity and the tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de siècle , when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele , Adolf Loos , and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a “laboratory of modernity”; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship; and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the most populous and multi-ethnic cities on earth. More recently, fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third Man , at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies . The book closes with the most recent pictures, celebrating the emergence of today’s Vienna—one of the most attractive cities in Europe, in which rich history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant contemporary culture.