And Vienna Was Glowing
‘If we were going to characterise cities, then Vienna would be a woman …’
Vienna, 1928. The three elderly ladies at Emilie Flöge’s fashion salon are perturbed. A Miss Wimmer from Berlin has requested interviews with the ‘Queens of Vienna’. But what will she want to ask? Everybody already knows that Anna Sacher breeds bulldogs, smokes cigars, bets on horse-racing, and yet has never revealed the recipe for Sacher-Torte, the most famous cake in Austria. Likewise, it’s no secret that Emilie has never married, modelling instead for the most renowned painter in Vienna, Gustav Klimt. Helene Stein-Kleiner, wife of the sugar magnate, does not wish to speak about one of the biggest scandals in Vienna, which changed her life forever. But the young woman from Berlin has an agenda of her own.
- A kaleidoscope of famous and powerful female figures in turn-of-the-century Vienna
- A fabulously entertaining read with an archly funny narrator commenting on social eniqualities of those days which still rings true for our times
- For readers of Karen Duve, Susanne Abel and Allison Pataki
Henny Arland studied German, Theatre, Film and Television Studies. She currently works as a freelance writer and researcher for film and television, and lives in Berlin with her family.
