Friedhof Unterer Friesenberg

Felix Salten, the author known for the famous story "Bambi: A Life in the Woods", the inspiration for the Disney Movie, is buried here at the Israelitischer Friedhof Unterer Friesenberg. But did you know he is also the author of "Josephine Mutzenbacher: Memoirs of a Viennese Porstitute". It is a pornographic classic. "Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt" is an erotic novel first published anonymously in Vienna, Austria in 1906. Although no author claimed responsibility for the work, it was originally attributed to either Felix Salten or Arthur Schnitzler by the librarians at the University of Vienna. Today, critics, scholars, academics and the Austrian Government designate Salten as the sole author of the "pornographic classic", Josephine Mutzenbacher.