“No Ceremony, Only Chimes…”
Obituary by the NEW YORK TIMES, 1991
20 years ago: the Soviet Union dies
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Gorbachev, Russia, Soviet Union on 26 December 2011 by delclemHere comes the “Christkind”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, beliefs, Central Europe, Christkind, Christmas, folklore on 24 December 2011 by delclem
PS: “this is the Balkans”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balaga, Balkans, Music, Punk, stereotypes on 22 December 2011 by delclemPunk playing (with) stereotypes on the region & the New World order
This is the Balkans here,
Fragrant flowers,
Totally incomprehensible to the whole world…
Vaclav Havel 1936 – 2011
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, obituary, Vaclav havel on 20 December 2011 by delclem
Author of absurd theatre, dissident, prisoner, president, European; the Czech leader who tried to teach his compatriots lessons in ethics and who lost Slovakia: Vaclav Havel is dead. See obituaries below (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2011.
Editorial on the European VH
Michael Billington on the dramatist VH
Timothy Garton Ash on the epitome VH
VH´s life in pictures
(Re)Imagining the Balkans
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 December 2011 by delclem
Another review of M. Todorova´s seminal work in the wake of O. Habsburg´s funeral (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2011
The Dialectics of Dialect
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, censorship, H.C.Artmann, Literature, poety on 13 December 2011 by delclem
When marketing goes wrong in Austria:
“Quotes from H.C. Artmann‘s Austrian-German dictionary provoke public reactions at Vienna Airport. Artmann, Austrian post war avantgardist and recently ‘mainstreamed’ author with quotes from his poems used as ornaments on several buildings (e.g. on the Donauinsel), has posthumously instilled protest by guardians of public morales. 1:0 for the avantgarde spirit!” (quote Kunzelmann/Liebscher, 2011)
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> Article on the incident (in German)
Vaclav Pozarek
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Czech Repulic, Switzerland, Vaclav Pozarek on 11 December 2011 by delclem
Samuel Beckett’s love for Germany
Posted in Uncategorized with tags France, Germany, Ireland, letters, Samuel Beckett on 7 December 2011 by delclem
The Irish playwright held a long affection for Germany – one that began early and eventually led to his role in the French resistance during World War II, as detailed in a collection of his letters.
Article by (c) Deutsche Welle, 2011
Horror For The Holidays: Meet The Anti-Santa
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, folklore, Krampus on 5 December 2011 by delclem
A Krampus roams the streets near Merano, Italy. People around America are also taking up the European Alpine folklore tradition, dressing like the creature who steals naughty children around Christmas time.
Article / audio text by Peter Crimmins (c) npr, 2011 Continue reading
Filmset: Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Achim Zeilmann, Austria, film history, Roland Weixlgartner, Vienna on 3 December 2011 by delclem
“Star detective Sherlock Holmes undergoing psychoanalysis, James Bond in a fever of romance, and an original imperial crown as a prop. All of this is possible in Vienna. In their guidebook with a difference entitled Drehort Wien, German journalist Achim Zeilmann and his co-author Roland Weixlgartner take a cinema tour of Vienna highlighting twenty-six films that have been shot there.”
Article & photo (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
delirium clemens 