Morbid Moments

Morbid Moments

vienna

EDITORIAL GUIDE

Death flourishes in Vienna. Call us morbid, but no where else in the world do business cards with addresses of the final resting place come out of wallets. The city’s sweeping grave yards could be mistaken for pastoral parks, if not for the abundance of statues and headstones.

Even more apparent is the city’s twisted relationship with the Grim Reaper. During the 1930s, Vienna laid claim as the most suicidal city on earth at a rate of 58 per 100,000 self-inflicted deaths per year. Fittingly, every artist who has resided in Vienna for over six months has made death a subject of his or her work at one time or another.

No wonder, as cabaret artist Georg Kreisler once mused, “Death must be Viennese.” Quote_transparent

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