“Berlin used to be Germany’s hippest city, but the once scruffy capital has long since succumbed to gentrification. The latest city to attract the creative class is the former East German industrial seat of Leipzig. Moving in by the thousands, they are lured by the euphoric buzz of cheap rent and youthful ingenuity.”
Text & photos (c) SPIEGELonline, 2012
Archive for October, 2012
Leipzig is the new Berlin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, gentrification, Germany, hipster, Leipzig, places to be on 27 October 2012 by delclemInterview with HER
Posted in Uncategorized with tags exhibition, interview, Marina Abramović, Performance art, USA, Vienna, Yugolavia on 26 October 2012 by delclemInterview (c) MoMa / YouTube, 2012
A current exhibition of Marina Abramović‘s works is currently on @ Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna.
“Wild Hungarians”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art history, Hungary, review, Vienna exhibition on 25 October 2012 by delclem
“Green skin, women painted in shades of sulphur yellow or mountains in red: something that caused a scandal 100 years ago has now become part of the art history’s standard repertory.” Review of an exhibition @ the Kunstforum in Vienna (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“All the news that’s fit to . . . draw”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, graphic novel, Joe Saccho, journalism, Malta, Palestine, war crimes on 24 October 2012 by delclem
“Comic-book journalism is a rare phenomenon, and there are few better practitioners than Joe Sacco. The work might be labour intensive, but the results can tell stories that other media can’t.” >Full text (c) IRISH TIMES, 2012
Wittgenstein in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, UK on 21 October 2012 by delclem
The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland. >chronicle >article
Balkan Gay Pride Made Joyful
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, film, homosexuality, Serbia on 20 October 2012 by delclem
“A homophobic, middle-aged Serbian gangster ends up sacrificing himself to protect Gay freedom in his country…” The surpise success movie in the Western Balkans this Fall. It promotes nothing less than the Utopian reconcilation of the ex-Yugoslav peoples (or, of their gangsters, at least;) over the protection of Serbian LGBT rights. Or does it take to be a mobster to support gays and lesbians (which would be a less nice message)?
How would you like your coffee?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags coffee culture, coffeehouse, coffeeshop, Germany, Ralf Rüller on 20 October 2012 by delclem
“Coffee bar owner sparks row by banning pushchairs: Ralf Rüller installs stone bollard to keep buggies out of café in Berlin.” An interesting – and controversial – example of coffee(house) culture in the 21st century and its changes over the last 100 years. Text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
The dark side of Habsburg power
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Franz Joseph, Habsburg Monarchy, review, Sisi on 17 October 2012 by delclem
“In most films Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I are portrayed as a dream couple. If we look a little more closely, however, we find that they were only too human, with their flaws, addictions, compulsions and often capricious preferences.” Text on Habsburg films, books and an exhibition
(c) wieninternational.at 2012
PS. I am not sure if this is really the “dark side of the Habsburgs” (in this context, also see the “Schwarzbuch der Habsburger“, ed. by Leidinger et al., Vienna: Deuticke 2003). However, the “Sisi Myth” about the “Lady Die” of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has at least been shattered and proven to be for sissies; it took a long time…
“Literature in Images”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Daniel Kehlmann, film, Literature, Marlen Haushofer, preview, review on 15 October 2012 by delclem
Austrian and German movie makers are successfully taking up with the boom of film adaptations of literature – and so in the coming weeks moviegoers can also expect some exciting glimpses into the world of Austrian literature: they will be able to see Die Wand by Marlen Haushofer or Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann in a cinema version. >Text & photo (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Mr Paillasse is back in town
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Canada, car manufacturing, Frank Stronach, party system, politics on 14 October 2012 by delclem
The nouveau-riche Austro-Canadian FRANK STRONACH buys himself into Austrian politics almost the same way he did with car manufacturing some decades ago. Will the banana republic in the Alps thus see the rise of a new Berlusconi? Or is it just another melodramatic act in the Austrian state farce?
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