Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom. In the past, people often ate their soup with bread. As the soup was...
The Dark Side of Humanity
The Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a highly volatile political period in which the old feudal system clashed with the new liberal spirit of the times. Since early October 1867, 34-year-old...
To this day, the ruins of Weibertreu Castle in Weinsberg—which the famous senior physician Justinus Kerner saved from ruin by founding the Weinsberg Women’s Association together with six women on December 8, 1823—stand as a testament to one of the oldest aristocratic castles in...
After the end of World War II, there was great hardship in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube. There was a shortage of food, consumer goods, and housing. During these hard times, 27-year-old textile engineer Julius Kausel landed a lucrative job as managing director...
One of Germany’s most spectacular series of robbery-murders took place in the mid-1980s. At remote rest stops, a masked man would lie in wait for lone men, whom he shot in cold blood so he could use their cars to rob a bank. The...
On the morning of September 1, 1928, a shootout straight out of a Western movie took place on Rilkeplatz in Vienna’s 4th district, Wieden. This was because the shooter, Gabor Bodony, was a well-known performer from Budapest who appeared in various variety shows in...
