When marketing goes wrong in Austria:
“Quotes from H.C. Artmann‘s Austrian-German dictionary provoke public reactions at Vienna Airport. Artmann, Austrian post war avantgardist and recently ‘mainstreamed’ author with quotes from his poems used as ornaments on several buildings (e.g. on the Donauinsel), has posthumously instilled protest by guardians of public morales. 1:0 for the avantgarde spirit!” (quote Kunzelmann/Liebscher, 2011)
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> Article on the incident (in German)
Article by (c) Deutsche Welle, 2011
A Krampus roams the streets near Merano, Italy. People around America are also taking up the European Alpine folklore tradition, dressing like the creature who steals naughty children around Christmas time.
Article / audio text by Peter Crimmins (c) npr, 2011 Continue reading
“Star detective Sherlock Holmes undergoing psychoanalysis, James Bond in a fever of romance, and an original imperial crown as a prop. All of this is possible in Vienna. In their guidebook with a difference entitled Drehort Wien, German journalist Achim Zeilmann and his co-author Roland Weixlgartner take a cinema tour of Vienna highlighting twenty-six films that have been shot there.”
Article & photo (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
The author of The Name of the Rose on why it is human to lie, how Berlusconi has used conspiracy theories to stay in power – and Eco’s love/hate relationship with his most famous book. With a link to a review of his recent novel The Cemetery of Prague (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011
“Looking at Central Europe askance, asking where on earth it may be, and why its inhabitants may wish to preserve their Mitteleuropäisch-ness. Maps are the answer, or are they?” Historical analysis by Tomasz Kamusella, St. Andrews
Essay (c) Kakanien revisited, 2011
Illustration (c) Felix Hörlein & Fabian Hofmann, Munich.
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