Rosl's Daughter
Subtitle: Cabaret and Childhood in 1920s Vienna
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing, Limited
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781846245725
Subjects: Entertainers; Austria, biography
Description: As the daughter of a famous cabaret star, Liesl Müller-Johnson had an extraordinary childhood full of music, love and glamour. Growing up in Vienna between the wars, Liesl flitted between the warmth and security of her adored grandmother's close-knit community and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, singer Rosl Berndt, where she mixed with famous musicians, composers and impresarios and was caught up in the theatrical whirlwind of one of Europe's most opulent cities. But the sparkle and romance of Liesl's world could not last, and the fact that she was half-Jewish was a constant source of fear. A move to Bucharest when her mother remarried led to yet another new stage for Liesl, and it was here that she discovered the joy and heartache of love, first with a dashing Rumanian cadet officer, then with an English war hero her friends had warned her to avoid--Dust jacket.