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Stories Set in Salzburg
Salzburg is an Austrian baroque city under a cliff-top fortress, Mozart's birthplace. One singing family made it the world's image of Austria, and the hills really are alive here. The Sound of Music do-re-mied them. Open Salzburg on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books and 9 movies set in Salzburg.
The Sound of Music
In the years before the Second World War a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the…
Silentium
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man…
The Best of All Worlds
Based on true events seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her…
The Devil's Mistress
Salzburg Germany 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels Minister of…
Mozart's Sister
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
One False Note
From the back cover:The race is on to find 39 Clues that safeguard a great power, and fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, are shocked to find themselves in the lead. The search seems to be taking…
Diplomatic Courier
During the Cold War diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point a train station in Salzburg his contact turns up dead and the…
The Salzburg Connection
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he…
Wanderlost
Not all those who wander are lost, but Aubree Sadler most definitely is on this novel’s whirlwind trip through Europe.Aubree can’t think of a better place to be than in perfectly boring Ohio, and she’s ready for a…
The Poems of Georg Trakl
This collection of Trakl's essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, "Gedichte "(Poems', 1913) and "Sebastian im Traum" (Sebastian in a Dream', 1914), together with the later poems published in…
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