Looking For Non-Fiction Book

[dask]

Anyone remember a book that came out maybe thirty or so years ago about Vienna when several luminaries such as Einstein, Freud, and maybe one or two others lived there around the same time?

 

[PaulMmn]

Not necessarily Vienna, but Tom Lehrer documented the story of Alma Mahler (She Married Gustav and Walter and Franz) in his song Alma (

). She had married Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel, among others in central Europe at the time.

 

[AllanR]

There are a fair number of books of that time period as Vienna was considered the cultural capital of Central Europe before the start of WW1.
Maybe Thunder at Twilight by Fredrick Morton?

Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Wittgenstein, Hitler, Tito+++

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

Found a BBC Article

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place​

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.

www.bbc.com

 

[Elentarri]

She had married Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel, among others in central Europe at the time.

I hope not all at the same time!

 

[PaulMmn]

I hope not all at the same time!

The song hinted this was a serial activity... although Alma seemed to have a lot of 'special friends.'