A “beautiful corpse” from the Habsburg collection is on display in Vienna.
“Mexiko Max”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Habsburg, House of Habsburg, Maximilian of Mexico, Mexico, review, Vienna on 28 July 2013 by delclemCroatia’s first (female) reporter
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Croatia, gender, journalism, Marija Jurić Zagorka, portrait, reporter, yugoslavia, Zagreb on 27 July 2013 by delclem
“Today everyone in Croatia knows the works of Marija Jurić Zagorka. This has not been always the case as it took the Croatian public quite long to recognise and acknowledge the significance of Zagorka’s contribution to equality between men and women.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Mauthausen: Life in the Details
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, concentration camp, exhibition, Holocaust, Mauthausen, National Socialism, review on 21 July 2013 by delclem
“A bicycle from Poland. Pieces of a Messerschmitt fighter plane from U.S. Air Force archives in Alabama. Camp log books from Caen. An embroidered handkerchief, tossed out a prison window by a woman on her way to execution for helping Allied paratroopers. A rusty watchtower searchlight, unearthed just last year. Wedding rings, watches & photos confiscated upon arrival here 1938-45.
On 5 May, two new permanent exhibitions were opened at Austria’s concentration camp memorial at Mauthausen along with a Room of Names – all part of an ongoing redesign scheduled for completion in 2018.”>full text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
“Tragic massacre(s) in Volyn remembered”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags massacre, occupation, Poland, Second World War, Ukraine, UPA, Volyn, war crimes on 20 July 2013 by delclem
“Ukrainians call it a tragedy, for Poles it was a massacre. Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia, former Polish territories now in western Ukraine. (…) Around 20,000 Ukrainians also died at the hands of Poles or Ukrainians who saw them as too close to the hated occupiers.”
>full article (c) THE ECONOMIST, 2013
Wilhelm Reich: genius, charlatan, victim?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Organ, prosecution, Psychoanalysis, science, USA, Wilhelm Reich on 19 July 2013 by delclem
“It was the greatest incidence of scientific persecution in American history.
In July of 1947, Dr Wilhelm Reich—a brilliant but troubled psychoanalyst who had once been Freud’s most promising student, who had enraged the Nazis and the Stalinists as well as the psychoanalytic, medical and scientific communities, who had survived two World Wars and fled to New York—was dying in a prison cell in Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, accused by the government of being a medical fraud engaged in a ‘sex racket’.” >more (c) motherboard.com 2013
Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem
“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Korngold biography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Brno, Czechoslovakia, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood, Music, opera, review on 15 July 2013 by delclem
Fifteen years after its first publication, a biography of the composer is translated into German >review & illustration (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
State Security Art
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, edward Snowden, Germany, Oliver Bienkowski, spying, Stasi, state security, USA on 13 July 2013 by delclem
“A German artist who beamed these words onto the wall of the U.S. embassy in Berlin says Washington’s spy methods make the former East German secret police (the Stasi) look like boy scouts. A video of OLIVER BIENKOWSKI’s artwork, a project that came about in collaboration with internet activist Kim Dotcom, is fast becoming a hit on the Internet in Germany, tapping into widespread outrage over U.S. surveillance programs revealed by fugitive ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.” (reblogged from Revolution News)
The Srebrenica Massacre of 1995: still counting…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, commemoration, cultural memory, genocide, massacre, Srebrenica, war crimes on 11 July 2013 by delclem“Scandal in Bohemia”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bohemia, Café Slava, cultural analysis, Czech Republic, politics, Prague, scandal on 10 July 2013 by delclem
The Absinthe drinker’s “temptress seems a fitting muse for a city where the absurdities of the public realm have often encouraged a retreat into the alcoholic and the erotic.” Very good article by one of the leading Bohemists of our day (c) NYT, 2013
delirium clemens 