The Austrian-born American diva Hedy Lamarr “was feted for her beauty — but she also had a talent for inventions, including elements of today’s GPS.”
Article by Peter Conradi (c) THE SUNDAY TIMES, 2011
Archive for November, 2011
Hedy Lamarr: inventor & movie star
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Austria, film history, film star, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, inventions, Vienna on 30 November 2011 by delclemArtie Schnitzler meets David Lynch
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, David Lynch, theatre, Vienna on 29 November 2011 by delclem
“Weit.Way.Land, a cool and witty production combining Schnitzler’s Undiscovered Country and David Lynch’s Lost Highway, which can still be seen at Vienna’s Off Theater through the end of January.”
>MORE (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
A bit of science fiction: the New Europe, AD 2021
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 2021, Europe, Niall Ferguson, prognosis, science fiction, United States of Europe on 28 November 2011 by delclem
A prognosis by Niall Ferguson, Harvard professor of history: the UK and Ireland reunited, plus a Nordic League; both entities outside the “United States of Europe” under German leadership (and Vienna as its capital).
A probable scenario or just an overwrought academic mind going berserk? Interesting is the way how underlying (national) stereotypes of angst and desire inform this narrative…
Article (c) THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 19 Nov. 2011
Map illustration by Peter Arkle.
PS. review of Ferguson´s book Civilisation: The West and the Rest
(c) LRB, 2011
Playing Doctor in Central Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, Germany, Johannes Hahn, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Karlheinz, PhD, plagiarism on 27 November 2011 by delclem
Nazi propaganda posters in Serbia during WW2
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bolshevism, Bturn, Churchill, Nazi propaganda, political advertising, posters, Serbia, Word War Two on 26 November 2011 by delclem
“One of the issues the Nazi authorities faced with the local population during four years in occupied Belgrade (1941-1945) was how to fight the ideological influence of both the Soviet Marxist-Leninism and Anglo-American liberal democracy.
Among various other propaganda techniques, a well established means of mass political advertising were posters. Although the Nazis never reached the avant-garde coolness of Soviet design, it is certainly interesting to see how the German propaganda machinery worked (…).”
Reblogged from (c) Bturn, 2011. More posters > LINK
A non-profit ad…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, NGO, travel on 25 November 2011 by delclem
Discover Bosnia is a 16 day trip for anyone wanting a vacation experience that is as personally challenging as it is adventure-filled. With a particular focus on the conflict that tore Bosnia apart during the early 90’s, participants will connect both intellectually and emotionally with the war’s legacy.
Discover Bosnia runs annually every July – interested? > LINK
R.I.P. Austrian comedian (1922-2011)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, comedian, Georg Kreisler, New York, song, Vienna on 24 November 2011 by delclem“Georg(e) Kreisler, one of Austria’s most prolific satirists & comedians, has died. Continue reading
Zagreb´s greatest inventor
Posted in Uncategorized with tags airplane, Central Europe, Habsburg Monarchy, inventions, inventors, Slavoljub Penkala, writing utensils on 23 November 2011 by delclemwas a product of Habsburg Central Europe himself,
with Polish-Dutch and other roots…
Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
Here, There Is a Why
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Holocaust, Italy, Literature, Primo Levi on 21 November 2011 by delclem
Ukraine´s last Chance?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags politics, Tomoty Snyder, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko on 19 November 2011 by delclem
An article by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder
(c) New York Review of Books, 2011
Or is the choice between Yanukovych and Tymoshenko
rather the choice between the Plague and Cholera?
delirium clemens 