The true story of a Viennese prostitute

“They say that young whores become old praying women. But that doesn’t apply to me. I became a whore early, I experienced everything a woman can experience: in bed, on tables, chairs, benches, leaning against the bare corners of walls, lying in the grass, in the nooks of dark doorways, in private rooms, on trains, in barracks, in brothels and in prison – but I regret none of it.”

After the book “The Story of a Viennese Prostitute, as Told by Herself”, two sequels were later published, titled “My 365 Lovers” and “Peperl Mutzenbacher: The Daughter of Josefine Mutzenbacher”. We offer the steamiest reading from the three novels about Josefine Mutzenbacher, which are very popular in German-speaking countries. For more than a hundred years, they have been published in many world languages and are ranked among erotic bestsellers. Austrian literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is characterised by a dualism unique to other cultures and literatures – a combination of absolute erotic sincerity and surprisingly human naivety. Josefine Mutzenbacher has become the inspiration for numerous films, theatre productions, and parodies.