A little lamb tries to escape back to its mother before being slaughtered.
Consider this photo next time you order one of those nicely pink meat dishes…
Archive for April, 2012
Happy Easter?
Posted in Uncategorized on 8 April 2012 by delclemA German poem that caused global turmoil
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Antisemitism, Antizionism, Günter Grass, Germany, Iran, Israel, Literature, nuclear bomb, poem on 7 April 2012 by delclem
“During his long literary career, Günter Grass has been many things. Author, playwright, sculptor and, unquestionably, Germany’s most famous living writer. There is the 1999 Nobel prize and Grass’s broader postwar role as the country’s moral conscience – albeit a claim badly undermined in 2006 when it emerged that the teenage Grass had served in the Waffen SS. But at the ripe old age of 84, Grass has triggered a furious row with a poem criticising Israel.”
Article and English translation of the poem (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Photo: Graeme Robertson
Original version of the poem (in German) (c) SZ, 2012
In memoriam of 11,541 Dead
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, photos, Sarajevo, siege on 6 April 2012 by delclem
The 20th anniversary of the start of the longest siege
in modern history, Sarajevo 1992-1995. 11541 red
chairs mark the number of the Sarajevans who died.
Photo (c) City of Sarajevo, 2012
>Photo album of the siege
The Khatyn Massacre in Belorussia Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Belorussia, Germany, Katyn, massacre, Poland, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalinism on 5 April 2012 by delclem
The brutal March 1943 massacre in the Belorussian village of Khatyn, commemorated in a 1969 memorial, has come to symbolize the horrors of the German occupation. Given the continuing centrality of the massacre to Belarusian memory politics, the details of the event remain under-studied. For political reasons, Soviet authorities and Ukrainian diaspora nationalists alike had an interest in de-emphasizing the central role of collaborators in carrying out the massacre. Using German military records, Soviet partisan diaries, and materials from Belorussian and Canadian legal cases, the author of this article revisits one of the most infamous, yet least understood war crimes committed on Soviet territory. > Article by Per Anders Rudling. Photo: statue of Iosif Kaminskii at Khatyn memorial site, Belorussia, ca. 1981. (c) Michael Gelb.
Five Times Klimt
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, Gustav Klimt, Vienna on 4 April 2012 by delclem
“The Klimt anniversary year has now really got going and there are currently five different Klimt exhibitions for fans to choose among. With exhibits ranging from sketches and friezes to simple postcards written by him, there seems to be nothing in Vienna right now that couldn’t be linked in some way to the famous Jugendstil painter.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“War dog”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Hemon, bosnia-hercegovina, Bosnian War, dogs, Literature, USA on 2 April 2012 by delclem
“How an Irish setter helped my family get through the Bosnian War.”
A literary essay in Cultural Kynological Studies by Aleksandar Hemon
“My sister and Veba remember the last time they took Mek and Don for a walk before the war started. It was April 1992, and there was shooting up in the hills around Sarajevo; a Yugoslav People’s Army plane menacingly broke the sound barrier above the city; the dogs barked like crazy. They said: ‘See you later!’ to each other as they parted, but would not see each other for five years.”
>read full text (c) GRANTA / Slate.com, 2012 (reblogged)
Shepherd burger
Posted in Uncategorized with tags commodification, fast food, Nationalism, Serbia on 1 April 2012 by delclemQuiz: is this a ‘real’ commercial or ironical concept art? Interesting for the cultural analyst is in any case the connection made between nationalism & commodity.
I owe this one to Mirna Zeman, Paderborn, who analyses such narratives.
delirium clemens 