Fin de siècle Vienna
Subject in History
Fin de siècle Vienna has come up in 2 episodes across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland links the incident to Vienna as the place where ideas of repression and neurosis were then being defined.
“This is where all these ideas of repression and neurosis and psychosis and everything are being defined at this very moment”
The Rest Is History: 690. A Murderous Affair: Death at Mayerling (Part 2) (Jul 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:09:09
Podcasts
- The Rest Is History · 2 episodes
Episodes
690. A Murderous Affair: Death at Mayerling (Part 2)The Rest Is History · Jul 22, 2026 · 1 h 19 min
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland recount the affair of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera, the Mayerling murder-suicide of 1889, its cover-up and aftermath.
- 689. A Murderous Affair: The Habsburgs’ Greatest Scandal (Part 1)
The Rest Is History · Jul 19, 2026 · 1 h 13 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook set the scene for the 1889 Mayerling incident, tracing Crown Prince Rudolf's troubled family, 1880s Vienna, and his first meetings with Mary Vetsera.