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Freud was jealous of my great-aunt’s lover

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-02-262021-02-26 No Comments

With some dogged digging, the internet can sometimes divulge the most unexpected stories. It recently revealed Hilde Loewe, wife of my great-uncle Otto Flatter of […]

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A Jewish blessing

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-02-022021-02-02 No Comments

My father was 12 when he learned that he was Jewish and that life was no longer safe. Just after the Anschluss, his mother told […]

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Jindřich Blum – My Uncle Otto’s sorely lamented friend

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-252021-02-09 No Comments

Great-uncle Otto wrote a moving tribute in his memoir to his friend the Czech architect Jindřich (Heinrich) Blum, which didn’t make it into my book […]

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Mahler, Freud and me

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-152021-01-15 No Comments

I based my book “Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre” on seven family memoirs, but I also read as much as I could about the Austro-Hungarian Empire. […]

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Einstein’s helping hand for my refugee family

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-072021-01-07 No Comments

Albert Einstein must have had hundreds of letters from desperate European Jews asking for help. My grandmother Emma was among those 1930s letter-writers to him […]

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The family’s “shameful” secret

by Brigid GRAUMAN2020-12-302020-12-13 No Comments

A good many stories didn’t make it into “Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre”. One of these was about the lovely illegitimate Martha. Born of unmarried Adelheid’s […]

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Snake, lizard and toadskin: my family’s handmade shoes

by Brigid GRAUMAN2020-12-182021-02-07 No Comments

Hand-made shoes were once the nec plus ultra, and my family made some of the very best. Artists, aristocrats and business tycoons wore Graumann shoes […]

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The girl with the military tattoo

by Brigid GRAUMAN2020-12-032020-12-03 No Comments

Tattoos may be ubiquitous nowadays, but it wasn’t always thus. So I was amused by an anecdote of my great-uncle Richard Flatter, lawyer by day, […]

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Smutty art in Vienna

by Brigid GRAUMAN2020-12-092020-12-09 No Comments

When Uncle Otto was trying to become an established figure in the art world, the Viennese had sex on the brain. Vienna could be called […]

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Fake Sacher torte

by Brigid GRAUMAN2020-12-012020-12-09 No Comments

“Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre” aims to bring to life those of my family in bygone times in Vienna. The taste of Viennese pastries is very […]

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