Gretel and the Great War.

In "Gretel and the Great War" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Vienna in 1919 is vividly depicted as a city grappling with the collapse of its empire. Amidst this turmoil, a mute young woman named Gretel is found on the streets. A doctor seeking her past learns her identity through stories sent by a sanatorium patient claiming to be her father. These stories, reflecting Vienna's decadent, oversexed, and death-obsessed culture influenced by Freud and Karl Kraus, paint a picture of a society on the brink of disappearance, capturing the dark allure of early twentieth-century Vienna.