Books and Publications
Available
Wolfgang Maderthaner, Lutz Musner
Unruly Masses: The Other Side of Fin-de-siecle Vienna
Berghahn Books, Oxford-New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-84545-446-3 Pb, ISBN 978-1-84545-345-9 Hb
Imperial Vienna was not a snowglobe between Waltzes and Schönbrunn Palace. It was capital of an Empire with all the problems of a big city. This book offers good insight into the situation of the poor in Vienna's suburbs during the time of Schani Breitwiesers. Ten pages containing several photos are dedicated to his life.
Also, it is the only book listed here that is available in English.
Egon Erwin Kisch
Der rasende Reporter
Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7466-5051-7
This, the most famous book by Egon Erwin Kisch, contains an article named Wie der Einbrecher Breitwieser erschossen wurde (How the burglar Breiwieser was shot). It also features a sketch of the villa in St. Andrä Wördern, where Schani Breitwieser lived.
Hans W. Bousska
Johann Breitwieser. Der Einbrecherkönig von Meidling, ein Robin Hood der Vororte?
in: Museumsblätter des Bezirksmuseums Meidling, Heft 30, Vienna 1992
This publication is mostly about the history of the police in Vienna and in Meidling. Included you can find an article on Schani Breitwieser.
This magazine is available at the Bezirksmuseum Meidling (District Museum Meidling).
Out of print
Hermann Kraszna
Johann Breitwieser. Ein Lebensbild.
2 volumes, Verlag der Tribunal, Vienna 1925
This book about Schani Breitwieser is a mixture of documentary and novel.
Dr. Hermann Kraszna was a lawyer and author of several books. He was forced to flee from Vienna during the Third Reich and died in exile in Ecuador in 1942.
Even from second-hand sources this book is very hard to get. All people working on this project would like a copy. Should you be able to help us, please get in touch.
Wilfried Zeller-Zellenberg
Seid lieb auch zu Disteln. Von Undsoweiter der k. u. k. Herrlichkeit 1918 bis dato und in alle Ewigkeit
Europaverlag, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-203-50502-4
Writer and cartoonist Wilfried Zeller-Zellenberg on 15 pages dedicates critical texts and many drawings - some of them of very rebellious nature - to the funeral of Schani Breitwieser. Also included are photographs and newspaper articles.
It is not hard to find this book second-hand.