“Sounding out boundaries, revealing limitations and questioning ingrained concepts: the Vienna Independent Shorts film festival is showing its more militant side in 2012 – from the special programme feature Pushing the boundaries to the festival theme.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
‘The imagined community of millions seems more real
as a team of eleven named people.” Eric Hobsbawm
“IT MUST, in many ways, be annoying for Dr Merkel and the Germans to have to hear the whingeing of the Portuguese, Irish, Greeks and Spaniards. For the Germans have come through problems unimaginable to most nations. Defeat in two world wars, hyperinflation in the 1920s, dictatorship and a divided country. One item in the litany of German disaster in the 20th century is often overlooked – reparations inflicted on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles after the first World War.” >Text (c) IRISH TIMES, 2012
“Spain has frittered away its chances for economic development for the second time. The first was after it discovered the Americas in 1492, and the second was after it joined the European Union in 1986. The anti-economic thinking that has dominated Spain is rooted in its history and culture.” >Excerpts from an article published by Süddeutsche Zeitung (c) presseurop.eu, 2012
“On the right bank of the Danube in district V is Petržalka, which has about 115,000 inhabitants, one quarter of Bratislava’s entire population. Fifty years ago this region was famous for its fruit orchards, forests and rural character. In the 1970s it became the symbol of the city’s growth and today contains the largest prefabricated housing estate in Central Europe.” >text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
delirium clemens 