In his film,’ Wes Anderson dreams of a mythologized Central Europe before the bombs fell >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014
Archive for March, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cenral Europe, Grand Budapest Hotel, interbellum, myth-making, Wes Anderson on 29 March 2014 by delclemProra: the Nazi beach resort built for 10,000
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural history, GDR, Germany, Kraft durch Freude, National Socialism, Rügen, tourism on 20 March 2014 by delclem
“An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three miles along the east coast of Rügen, a German island in the Baltic Sea. Blocky and bleak, their unadorned design suggests a prison. But these buildings were meant for leisure: they form part of a Nazi-built seaside resort.” >full text (c) Atlas Obscura / SLATE, 2014
Alternative Memorial for Hungary’s ordeal, 1944-45
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1944/45, art, Budapest, Fidesz, German occupation, Hungary, memory culture, Second World War on 19 March 2014 by delclem
The Hungarian artist blogger LACI SZILY (sic;) has presented an alternative to the planned ‘Memorial of German Occupation, 1944/45’ in Budapest: Hitler is holding a Wiener Schnitzel in the shape of Greater Hungary in order to distract the Hungarian Puli dog which is being raped by a German shepherd… >more (in Hungarian)
The art Hitler dismissed as ‘filth’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', Berlin, exhibition, Germany, National Socialism, New York, review on 12 March 2014 by delclem
“Degenerate Art”: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. This New York exhibition revisits not only Germany’s ‘Degenerate Art’ show that destroyed so many artistic careers, but the Nazi rhetoric that made the exhibition possible. >review
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
“Crimea & the Hysteria of History”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1914, Crimea, crisis, Europe, First World War, histroy, hysteria, Russia, Ukraine on 9 March 2014 by delclem
“Well, that was fast. At the beginning of the year, it seemed apt to meditate on the catastrophes of a century past, and on the chance that we might, once again, be passengers on some Titanic of history, with a small flaw in the hull opened by some unforeseen iceberg. And it seemed worth stressing that what had brought the ship down—in short, what made 1914 happen—was, above all, the vulnerability of open societies to the panicked appeal to honor and the fear of humiliation.” >full essay
(c) THE NEW YORKER, 2014
Propaganda smog over Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Kiev, Maidan, Moscow, New York, power struggle, propaganda, Ukraine on 3 March 2014 by delclem
“From Moscow to London to New York, the Ukrainian revolution has been seen through a haze of propaganda.” >analysis by Yale historian Timothy Snyder
(c) NYROB, 2014
Economic crisis stimulates retro wave in Slovenia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags economic crisis, retro, Sloveina, Socialist products, Yugo nostalgia, yugoslavia on 1 March 2014 by delclem
“After Slovenia decided in 1991 to leave the federation of Yugoslavia, the loss of the Yugoslav market and the transition to the new market economy led to the demise of many businesses. A few products remained in the people’s memory, however, and gave them security and a feeling of comfort. In the middle of the economic crisis, people look back wistfully on these retro products and the ‘good old days’ of Socialist Yugoslavia.” >analysis & photo (c) wieninternational.at 2014
delirium clemens 