Little Warsaw: The Battle of Inner Truth – Budapest, 2011
(while a cultural struggle of sorts is taking place in Hungary…)
Archive for December, 2011
Kulturkampf in Budapest
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Budapest, Hungary, Kulturkampf, Little Warsaw, Nationalism on 31 December 2011 by delclemImages of an era
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, photography, postwar on 30 December 2011 by delclem
Until the end of January everyone has a chance to immerse themselves in the world of Austrian photography after 1945 > MORE
(c) wieninternational.t, 2011
k. & k. Manhunter
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andrew Krivak, First World War, Literature, Slovakia, sniper, United States on 29 December 2011 by delclem
Set in a world that has faded from living memory, The Sojourn by the Slovak American author Andrew Krivak is a searing coming-of-age story about a sniper in the Austrian Army on the Italian front in the First World War.
Review (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2011.
Grande dame of Austrian anthropology
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Anthropology, Austria, Etta Becker-Donner, exhibition on 28 December 2011 by delclem
“Etta Becker-Donner was a pioneer in the field of anthropology. She would have turned 100 this year. Her birthday comes as a welcome occasion for the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna to commemorate the great field researcher, scientist and former museum director with a small, but fine exhibition” > MORE
(c) wieninternational.at, 2011
City within the city
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural space, Ljubljana, Metelkova, Slovenia on 27 December 2011 by delclemMetelkova: 18 years of utopian freedom in Ljubljana
Copenhagen has Christiania, Berlin has Tacheles, and Ljubljana has Metelkova City, its very own autonomous cultural center.
Metelkova is situated in the former barracks of Yugoslav People’s Army which were left abandoned after Slovenia became independent in 1991. Some 200 volunteers squatted the premises in 1993 after their formal request to use the barracks as artistic space fell on deaf ears.
> MORE (c) BTurn, 2011 (reblogged)
20 years ago: the Soviet Union dies
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gorbachev, Russia, Soviet Union on 26 December 2011 by delclem
Here comes the “Christkind”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, beliefs, Central Europe, Christkind, Christmas, folklore on 24 December 2011 by delclem
PS: “this is the Balkans”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balaga, Balkans, Music, Punk, stereotypes on 22 December 2011 by delclemPunk playing (with) stereotypes on the region & the New World order
This is the Balkans here,
Fragrant flowers,
Totally incomprehensible to the whole world…
Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, obituary, Vaclav havel on 20 December 2011 by delclem
Author of absurd theatre, dissident, prisoner, president, European; the Czech leader who tried to teach his compatriots lessons in ethics and who lost Slovakia: Vaclav Havel is dead. See obituaries below (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011.
Editorial on the European VH
Michael Billington on the dramatist VH
Timothy Garton Ash on the epitome VH
VH´s life in pictures
(Re)Imagining the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 December 2011 by delclem
Another review of M. Todorova´s seminal work in the wake of O. Habsburg´s funeral (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2011
delirium clemens 