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Vienna’s Burgtheater (“City Theater”) has experienced a peripatetic life. When it was first formed by Maria Theresa, in A.D. 1741, it was housed in the Imperial Palace. 10 years later, it moved to the Königliches Theater nächst der Burg (Royal Theatre near the Palace). This is where 3 of Mozart’s
In his 20th century memoir, The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig talks about his youthful obsession with this building: “For the Imperial theatre, the Burgtheater, was for the Viennese and for the Austrian more than a stage upon which actors enacted parts; it was the microcosm that mirrored the macrocosm,
The Wächterin (“Guardian”) stands sentinel on the Ringstrasse, on the lawn in front of the Burgtheater. The vulture-like sculpture was created by the modern artist Ulrike Truger in A.D. 1988. Soon after she finished the work, a series of letter bombs hit Austria. People who spoke out for immigrants were
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If you like the Wächterin, you can find Ulrike Truger’s work elsewhere in Vienna. Her abstract sculpture honoring Marcus Omofuma, a Nigerian asylum seeker who suffocated to death while protesting against his deportation, is on the Mariahilferstrasse. Her figure-based tribute to Empress Elisabeth, entitled “Elisabeth: coercion, escape, freedom,” is at
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