A German novel imagines: what if ?
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THE WORLD WITHOUT THE SHOTS OF SARAJEVO
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Austria-Hungary, First World War, Gavrilo Princip, German Empire, Hannes Stein, Johann Nestroy, Literature, review, Shots of Sarajevo on 24 November 2013 by delclemInternational Students’ Day today
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, German occupation, International Students' Day, Jan Opletal, National Socialism, student protest, universitites on 17 November 2013 by delclem
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“This is an international observance of student community, held annually on November 17. Taking the day differently than its original meaning commemorating German storming of Czech universities in 1939 and killing and sending of its students to concentration camps, a number of universities mark it, sometimes on a day other than November 17, for a nonpolitical celebration of the multiculturalism of their international students.”
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WHO OWNS ‘1914’ ?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1914, 2014, Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Austria-Hungary, Bosnian War, commemoration, cultural memory, Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo, World War I on 16 November 2013 by delclem
Nationalistic mud wrestling – or pan-European opportunity? The lobbying
is on for the WWI commemoration of Sarajevo in June 2014.
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Anti-Communist propaganda
Posted in Uncategorized with tags anti-Communism, Communism, Europe, political art, politics, posters, propaganda on 14 November 2013 by delclem
“Horror movies and Weird Tales magazine have given us some beautiful, spooky and unnerving works of art. But if you really want a dose of scary brilliance? Check out the posters that warned people of the evils of Communism. These are scarier, and more beautiful, than pretty much any horror art you’ve seen.”
>photo album (c) l09.com 2013
The Rorschach Test: what do YOU see?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Hermann Rorschach, psychology, psychopathology, Rorschach test, Switzerland on 13 November 2013 by delclem
“There is a well-known scene in Woody Allen’s Take The Money And Run (1969) when Virgil Starkwell (Allen) takes a psychological test to join the Navy, but is thwarted by his lascivious unconscious. The psychological measure that proves to be Starkwell’s undoing—rejected, he turns to a life of crime—is the Rorschach inkblot test, devised almost a century ago by Carl Jung’s compatriot and fellow psychologist, Hermann Rorschach. Although Rorschach would die young, at 37, his namesake remains embedded in our perception of psychology, alongside Freud’s couch and Pavlov’s dog.” >full text (c) open culture 2013
It’s not always ‘us versus them’…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1941, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Holocaust, Jews, Muslims, Sarajevo, Ustasha, veil on 12 November 2013 by delclem
Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil on the
streets of Sarajevo in 1941. Photo (c) imgur.com, 2013
Bosnian War Memories Filmed for Oral History Archive
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, cultural memory, oral history, testimony, yugoslavia on 11 November 2013 by delclem
“From ex-officers and politicians to ordinary Bosnians, over 100 people have given video interviews for a new archive of memories of wartime suffering and imprisonment.” >article & photos (c) Balkan Insight, 2013
Anniversary of Viennese anti-Semitism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, anti-Semitism, Austria, commemoration, Germany, National Socialism, November Pogrom, Vienna on 9 November 2013 by delclem
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Hungarian far-right sparks protests as it commemorates wartime leader
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Budapest, cultural memory, fascism, hsitory, Hungary, Jobbik, Miklós Horthy, right extremsism on 6 November 2013 by delclem
“Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party unveiled a statue of wartime leader Miklos Horthy who presided over the country’s alliance with Nazi Germany, in Budapest on Sunday, sparking protests and highlighting concerns about anti-Semitism in the country.” >text & slide show (c) reuters 2013; another article (c) Hungarian Spectrum, 2013
Modernist art ‘looted by Nazis’ recovered
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', art haul, Germany, modernism, Munich, National Socialismu on 5 November 2013 by delclem
“About 1,500 modernist masterpieces – thought to have been looted by the Nazis – have been confiscated from the flat of an 80-year-old man from Munich, in what is being described as the biggest artistic find of the postwar era.”
>article & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
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