Christian Glanz
In the last third of the 19th century, entertainment in Vienna increasingly focused on sensation. In its most spectacular form, it offered its own worlds of experience that allowed the public to immerse itself in a different reality. This form of escapism, including the more or less authentic flair of the city that gave it its name, was offered, for example, in “Venice in Vienna. (Full text on ORF Topos)
https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-venedig-in-wien100

