An empire built on light: Bettina Balàka’s “Magician of Cobenzl” – Literature

2023-11-05 12:00:00

The Cobenzl, the Reisenberg, in Grinzing, seems to have taken a shine to Bettina Balàka. In 2019 she dived with The pigeons of Brno into the 19th century. It was a novel regarding Johann Carl von Sothen (1823–1881), the banker and disreputable lottery collector. His life ended by bullets on the Cobenzl, the 382 meter high mountain that was purchased by Count Johann Philipp Cobenzl in 1774.

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