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Gerda Butkuviene

Stories from Gerda Butkuviene

Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve in the 1968 production of Mayerling | Photo: MGM
Myths of Mayerling
For many Austrians, the unsolved mystery of the death of the Crown Prince Rudolf carries enduring fascination and romance
Gerda Butkuviene
28/03/2011

Books and dramatic works included in this review

Crime at Mayerling. The Life and Death of Mary Vetsera,Georg Markus (1995)

The Habsburgs’ Tragedy written by Polish author Leo Belmonto

Rudolf, The Mayerling Affair, a musical by directed by David Leveaux (2009)

Mayerling, a film directed by Terence

06 John Winslow
John Irving’s Vienna
After a single year spent here, the best-selling author has never really left the Vienna he knew in the 1960s
Gerda Butkuviene
01/06/2010

It’s a different picture of Vienna: A sweaty prostitute in a bear suit, a man walking on his hands around the lobby of a third-class Pension, a motorcyclist keeping a diary about the guards at the Zoo or other crazy things. Unlikely images swirl around in The World According to John Irving, that draws him irresistibly, again and again, back to Vienna.

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