Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold...
...murders her. Biberkopf is suspected of the murder; he hides, disguises himself, but the police catch him. Bewilderment at his bad luck has addled his wits; he is taken, not to jail this time, but to an asylum. There Death throws him but cannot quite keep him down. When Franz Biberkopf emerges from the shadow of death, and the threat of jail, he is older, wiser than most...
Artist Sert's first wife was a great-grandniece of Composer Franz Liszt. She accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...
...more than 30 years the lovely Kathe Schratt was the great & good friend of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Franz Josef. Moreover she remained on the very best of terms with the Empress Elizabeth until the hitter's tragic death...
...hunting lodge at Mayerling not far from Vienna the body of the Archduke Rudolf, only son & heir of the Emperor Franz Josef was found shot through the temple, lying by the side of his dead mistress, the beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera...