Hello Everyone:
Over the week-end, in between my campaign work, I went into a antiquidarian book shop in Georgetown and purchased a book by Sydney Jones, who wrote Viennawalks, he spent over 5 years research the book called " AH in Wien, 1903-1907." Is anyone fmailiar with it? I gave it a cursory look and he mentions the 6th Disrict a lot. It seems AH lived on Strumperdorstrasse and walked the Mariahilfstrasse to the first District all the time. It boggers the mind to think that I might have walked on the same streets as AH.
What do you all thinkg of that?
Especially our Wien expert, Duncan, have you ever heard of this book?
Hope you all have a great day tomorrow!
svon
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Hello Susan: I didn't know this book but I shall look out for it. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I quickly checked my records about Hitler's Vienna addresses and here they are: "As a budding artist in 1907-08 Hitler lived in an apartment at Stumpergasse 29 in Mariahilf and then just around the corner at Felberstrasse 22. It was during this time, in between drinking coffee in the Café Sperl, that he was twice rejected as being “inadequate” by the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste) on Schillerplatz. Increasingly disgruntled and without money he then occupied a flat on Sechshauser Strasse, a homeless shelter in Meidling, and finally a men’s hostel called the Männerheim at Meldemannstrasse 25-27 in Brigittenau. In May 1913 Hitler eventually abandoned Vienna for Munich and then Berlin, only to return to the Austrian capital 25 years later, in March 1938, as Führer of the German Third Reich. This time he spent the night in the luxurious Hotel Imperial on Kärntner Ring and proclaimed the annexation (Anschluss) of Austria from the balcony of the Neue Burg before flying back to Germany." It is even possible that AH passed his future adversary Josef Stalin on the street since Stalin was in Vienna in 1913, staying at Schönbrunner Schloss Strasse 30. At the time, AH lived around the corner and would pass this address on his way to paint postcard pictures at Schönbrunn. I wonder...
Hello Duncan and Everyone Else,
Well, as I always said, you know your "Vienna stuff." yes, everyhting you say is in Jones' book, he also mentions that Hitler would go to a bench below the Gloriett and sketch all day (since he was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts) and then sell the sketches through a Jewish dealer on the Liechsnsrrasa. Also, Jones mentions that Hitler became enamored of advertising and admired the ads of a hair care products salon on #4 Stephanplatz - close to the Magli shoe store and our English breakfast place, Haas & Haas. Jones stays that it is still in standing. Also, Jones says that Hitler was a in the chours of the Theater a de Wien and also worked as a laborere at he Kunisthorisce musuem. When he came back to Wien as Chancellor of the Third Reich and after Asnschluss he visited the msueum and wanted to know why an object wasnt there that he had remmbered when he worked there. The object had been returned to Italy for reprations (sp?). The whole book boggles the mind, to quote the Queen, to think that I walked on the same street and spots as AH just amazes me!
Hope you have a great day in Wien.
all the best.
svon
Hey Everyone,
I type so fast, sorry for all of the misspellings!
svon
Hello Everyone:
Sorry not to have been on our blog,put there is a problem with my access. I have talked to our Blog Master and he is going to correc it. Also, I owe a lot of your indivudal emails and will get to them today.
I am working on my trip now ane expect to be in Wien from May 1 - May 10th. Also, the date for our networking party may change since our BlogMaster Richard may be able to attend and I want to make sure he can come.
Hope everyone is all right and enjoying nice weather in Wien.
Hope to read you all soon.
Svon
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Hey is anyone out there reading ou blog?
Just wanted to check before I post again.
Danke
svon
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