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
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
“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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Freud on Shakespeare
I named “Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre” after my painter great-uncle, but his brother Richard was equally artistic. He was a playwright and the foremost translator […]
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How Uncle Otto saw the Nazi leaders
Every evening during the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazi ringleaders, after a day of sketching furiously in the press gallery, my great-uncle Otto Flatter would […]
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Back to the future: the Vienna attacks
It’s perhaps an over-reaction brought on by having recently completed my Jewish ancestors’ history, but I felt personally attacked by the shootings in Vienna on […]
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