Literature
Karl Kraus
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Performed here
Hotel Central
Kraus gave readings here in 1911 and 1913, with Kafka documented in the audience on at least one occasion.
Traces in other cities
- Vienna
- Former Café Griensteidl Site — Kraus answered the café’s 1897 demolition with the satire “Die demolirte Litteratur.”
- Vienna
- Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom — Kraus appeared here in the 1905 Austrian premiere of Frank Wedekind’s Pandora’s Box staged by his Trianon group.
- Vienna
- Vienna Central Cemetery
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