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Imperial Vienna: 1800–1900
Vienna · 1800–1900 · exact time + place
The grand capital of empires — known for classical music, imperial courts, and political intrigue in the 19th century, from Congress waltzes to Mayerling. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Vienna and 1800–1900 already set.
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Browse 8 books, 9 movies and 1 TV show set in Vienna.
Sissi: The Young Empress
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor…
Immortal Beloved
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827 his assistant Schindler searches for an elusive woman referred…
La Ronde
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady who becomes a maid and does similarly with…
Copying Beethoven
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However it has been years since his last success and he is…
When Nietzsche Wept
In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career.…
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious while…
When Nietzsche Wept
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Johann Mouse
At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes the mouse would dance to the music unable to control himself. One day when Strauss was away the house cat…
The Little Book
An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, The Little Book is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siècle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the…
Hijos del vampiro
Bajo las titilantes lámparas de gas de Viena, un hombre observa mientras su hermana, con una belleza de porcelana, toma a dos amantes a la vez para después volcar su pasión en el más prohibido acto de... En las calles…
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