Cabaret Fledermaus has a strange chronological synergy with the career of Alfred Redl: it opened the same year Redl began to make the big bucks from his treachery, and the theater closed down a few weeks after his ‘suicide’. The financiers of the Fledermaus were the same financiers of “Die Zeit”, the newspaper which actually broke the espionage angle of the Redl Scandal, not Kisch at “Bohemia”.
Col. Alfred Redl 