CHARACTERS
ALASTOR ~Young Australian composer.
Promethean idealist.
LUCINDA ~Young Viennese Opera
singer.
HERSCHL ~Proprietor of the Cafe
Central.
VITA ~Waitress at Cafe Central,
Musician.
CARL ~Journalist, armchair
socialist. Cafe regular.
ALEX ~Journalist, Poet, armchair
socialist. Cafe regular.
ERWIN ~ Physics graduate. Cafe
regular.
SANDOR ~Hungarian weightlifter on
the run. Cafe regular.
RUDI ~ Music Student.
MARIANNE ~ Music Student.
ZDENKA ~ Music and Architecture
Student.
GRETCHEN ~Thirty something Buxom
Germanic Goddess. Wife of Heinrich Von Hagenau
HEINRICH
Von HAGENAU
~Wealthy Aristocrat and Nazi supporter with private army. Benefactor of the
University Music Society.
MIRIAM ~English woman.
Non Fiction Characters.
ALBAN
BERG ~Famous
composer of the 2nd Viennese School of Atonality. Cafe regular.
ANNA SACHER ~70 year old eccentric. Proprietor of the Hotel Sacher.
KARL KRAUS ~ Writer and political satirist.
MONSIGNOR
SEIPEL ~
Austrian President.
OTTO
BAUER
~Leading light in the Social Democratic Party.
KARL
RENNER
~Former Chancellor of Austria. Now Social Democrat Icon.
KARL
VAUGOIN ~
Minister of War.
RUDI
Von STARHEMBERG ~Fascist leader with private army of 700 men.
KARL
SEITZ ~Mayor
of Vienna.
JOHANN
SCHOBER ~
Police Commissioner.
JULIUS
DEUTSCH ~
Leader of the Schutzbund.
THEODOR
KORNER ~
Military adviser to the Schutzbund.
RODOLPH
SIEGHART ~
Jewish Banker and founder of the fascist group the Heimwehr.
MORITZ
SCHLICK
~Theoretical physicist and philosopher.
RUDOLPH
CARNAP
~Philosopher and Logician
OTTO
NEURATH
~Sociologist
KARL
KRAUSS
~Satirist, Philosopher
RICHARD
WAHLE
~Philosopher, Psychologist.
KURT
GODEL
~Mathematician.
Wealth and dominion fade into
the mass
Of the great sea of human
right and wrong,
When once from our possession
they must pass;
But love, though misdirected,
is among
The things which are
immortal, and surpass
All that frail stuff which
will be - or which was.
P. B. Shelley. 1817.
“A person’s insanity is not
their’s, but that of their society”.
Luis Bunuel .
“Take everything I say as a
question”.
Niels Bohr. (Danish
Physicist)