Linzer Gasse

This guide to Linzer Gasse in Salzburg follows a terrified seventeen-year-old apprentice named Georg Trakl, sweating through his shifts behind the counter of the pharmacy Zum Weissen Engel starting in 1905. You'll hear about his drunkard boss, the dull work of weighing powders and mixing syrups, and the locked cabinet of opiates he had unsupervised access to. Off the clock, in a rented room nearby, he was writing dark, feverish poetry. Best heard walking the lane's modest shopfronts, once home to turners, coopers and gunsmiths rather than wealthy merchants.