“This week we are visiting the capital city nearest to Vienna. Bratislava has also been the scene of many mysterious events that have inspired people’s imagination and given rise to scary stories & legends.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, European Capital of Culture, Košice, Slovakia on 19 January 2013 by delclem
Today Košice / Kaschau / Kassa in Slovakia becomes the first city in the country’s history to be a European Capital of Culture (along with Marseille)
>text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Stalin’s Shadow
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Anne Applebaum, Central Europe, Communism, Eastern Europe, histroy, Iron curtain, Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union, World War II on 18 January 2013 by delclem
“Having brilliantly documented the horror of Stalin’s Soviet terror machine in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, author Anne Applebaum now offers a bulky sequel, Iron Curtain, about the brutal effort of that same machine to crush and colonize Eastern Europe in the first decade after World War II. Her evidence, once again drawn from archival research and some survivor interviews, is overwhelming and convincing. But the heart of her story is hardly news.” >review & photo (c) NYT, 2012
Bosnia: a model for the planet?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags bosnia-hercegovina, Europe, multiculturalism, travel on 14 January 2013 by delclem
“In many ways, the country has what the rest of Europe has lost.”
>full text /travelogue & photo (c) NBC NEWS, 2009
“Taoiseach, Nazi, soldier, spy”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, Ireland, Literature, National Socialism, Otto Skorzeny, Second World War, SS, Stuart Neville on 12 January 2013 by delclem
Ratlines, the latest novel by North Irish author Stuart Neville, is not only about the former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Charles J Haughey, but also on the prominent Austrian SS-veteran Otto Skorzeny who lived in Ireland from the late 1950s (and was buried at the Döbling cemetery in Vienna after his death in 1975) > text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
“The artist who would be president”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags arts, Czech Republic, Prague, presidency, tatoos, Václav Klaus, Vladimír Franz on 11 January 2013 by delclem
“It is impossible to miss Czech artist and composer Vladimír Franz in a crowd: the professor, who teaches Music in Theatre Performance at DAMU in Prague, is tattooed on all visible parts of his body, including his face and hands. Now Mr Franz is also one of the country’s most unusual – and most unexpected – candidates for president.” >text
(c) RADIO PRAHA, 2013
Heart Break Hotels in Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Belgium, Germany, hotels, Italy, Netherlands, photography, Slovakia, what's in a name? on 10 January 2013 by delclem
“What do you dream of when you stay at Hotel Kummer (German for ‘heartache’)? Who do you meet at Hotel Verloren (‘lost’)? And does breakfast at the B&B Trauer (‘grief’) leave a special taste in your mouth? Artist Conny Habbel and author Franz Adrian Wenzl went to see the most desperate hotels in Europe.” >Text & photos (album) (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Return to Berlin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, David Bowie, Germany, Great Britain, Music, Pop on 8 January 2013 by delclemIn his new single – the only one in 10 years – David Bowie takes us on a trip down memory lane in… BERLIN, on the occasion of his 66th birthday today.
Masculinity exposed in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, art history, Austria, Europe, exhibition, gender, masculinity, nudity sexuality, review, Vienna on 6 January 2013 by delclem
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
delirium clemens 