23 September 2020

Annotation on 12 April 2021: The exhibition is extended until 19 September 2021. Premiere of 'Albertine' at Theater im Rabenhof postponed.

Museum of the City of Vienna 'Wien Museum' presents author of 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods' Felix Salten and his cultural life in Vienna (15 October 2020 - 25 April 19 September 2021 at Wien Museum MUSA)

For the upcoming exhibition 'Beyond Bambi. Felix Salten and The Discovery Of Viennese Modernism' (original title 'Im Schatten von Bambi. Felix Salten entdeckt die Wiener Moderne') from 15 October 2020 until 25 April 19 September 2021 at the Wien Museum branch MUSA at Felderstraße 6-8 in the 1st district of Vienna, the curators researched on occasion of the 75th anniversary of Felix Salten's death (lived from 1869 until 1945) on the author's work at the estate in the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (city hall). Internationally, Felix Salten's most prominent work is the story 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods' published at the end of 1922, the basis for the Disney movie, released 1942. But not the book which throws so much light on Salten is in the center of the exhibition; therefore, the chosen original title which means translated as much as 'In the shadow of Bambi'. The curators spot on Felix Salten as an important protagonist of the cultural life of Viennese Modernism whose colleagues and friends as journalist, author of novels and stage plays formed a literary and artist network from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Arthur Schnitzler, Max Reinhardt or Gustav Klimt.

The researchers discovered even unreleased and until now unknown texts such as the erotic manuscript 'Albertine' which is announced to premiere at the Theater im Rabenhof (Vienna) in April 2021 - premiere postponed.

Images from left: Felix Salten (1st from left) with Max Reinhardt (4th from left) at the rehearsals for 'Faust' at the Salzburger Festspiele, 1933; photo: © Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. Poster for the exhibition 'Im Schatten von Bambi. Felix Salten entdeckt die Wiener Moderne' at Wien Museum MUSA; artwork Olaf Osten. Poster for the movie 'Bambi', 1951; photo: © Wienbibliothek im Rathaus.