The usual sweet Sisi cliché you will search in vain in this book Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, was one of the most educated and interesting women of her time. She had already become a legend before the assassination attempt that ended her life in 1898. In this biography, which has become a standard work, Brigitte Hamann describes the real life of the empress. The virtuosically told and historically precise story of an unusual life.