“The Austrian composer bridged the transition from writing music for patrons to writing for a paying audience” and “became one of Europe’s most respected composers in his day.” >text from THE EUROPEANS series (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
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“The Europeans, no 8: Haydn”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 18th century, Austria, England, Europe, Hungary, Joseph Haydn, Music on 30 March 2013 by delclem‘The Bell Jar’ echoes 50 years on
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bell Jar, Feminism, Germany, Literature, Sylvia Plath, USA on 29 March 2013 by delclem
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) seems to be the Ingeborg Bachmann of North America. Her “relationship with her most famous work was not easy, but it retains its power after five decades.” In terms of today, she would be a writer with an Austrian/German “migration background.” >full article (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Another article: Who is Sylvia Plath? “Her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much-mythologised poet.” (c) FT 2013
“Splintered self”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Hemon, autobiography, displacement, exile, literare, review on 27 March 2013 by delclem
This time, the writing of Aleksandar Hemon is fully autobiographical: “To write about a life, you need a life to write about. Or you used to, anyway. Hemon, as his book’s title implies, has a surfeit. His are the multiple lives of the uprooted: the remembered life of his upbringing in Bosnia, the transposed life of the new immigrant to Chicago and the present life of the author, husband, father.”
>review (c) THE NEW STATESMAN, 2013
PS. Shakespearean ghosts of Sarajevo?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Aleksandar Hemon, Biljana Plavšić, Bosnian War, Literature, Nikola Koljević, Radovan Karadžić, Sarajevo, Sarajevo University on 26 March 2013 by delclem
In his recent Book of My Lives (p. 97-101), the Bosnian American author Aleksandar Hemon (see post above) digs out one of the best-hidden skeletons in the closets of the University of Sarajevo: Professor Nikola Nikola Koljević (1936-97), a Professor of English and internationally renowned Shakespeare expert. Continue reading
How A Old/Holy Book Was Saved
Posted in Uncategorized with tags book culture, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Haggadah, Judaism, Sarajevo on 24 March 2013 by delclemA recent BBC documentary on how a 700 year old Jewish holy book was protected by the people of Sarajevo, during the 1992-1995 war. It is the oldest Jewish holy book still in use worldwide. (c) BBC & YouTube, 2012
Art Brut from America
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, art brut, George W. Bush, Gugging, painting, USA on 21 March 2013 by delclem
George W. Bush’s Dirty Little Secret
“In February, a hacker named Guccifer revealed to the world the hidden artistic talents of George W. Bush, releasing to The Smoking Gun a handful of photographs of oil paintings by the former president that had been taken from personal Bush family emails. The images were well-received by critics and laypeople alike, but they represented only a small portion of the budding outsider artist’s oeuvre.”
>read & see more (c) GAWKER.COM, 2013
Maybe these artworks should be exhibited at the Viennese Art Brut Center at the former mental institution of Gugging?
Prague, Capital of the 20th Century
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, cultural history, Czechoslovakia, Derek Sayer, Prague, review on 18 March 2013 by delclem
A Surrealist history by Derek Sayer >review (c) ART DAILY, 2013
“A Personal Story of Remembrance & War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, interview, Madeleine Albright, memoir, Prague, USA on 17 March 2013 by delclem
Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson interviews Marie Jana Korbel(ová) – aka. the US ex-foreign minister Madeleine Albright – about her latest book, a memoir of her childhood days in Prague (c) ASPEN INSTITUTE / YOUTUBE, 2012
“Today’s Jewish Life In Vienna”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, minorities, Vienna on 15 March 2013 by delclem
“A snapshot in time: Vienna Today 2012 documents a thriving community.”
>full text (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Incisive Anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, cultural memory, Germany, Hitler, memory politics, National Socialism on 13 March 2013 by delclem
Austria commemorates again its – less forced than desired – “Anschluss” to Nazi Germany. Continue reading
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