“Research for a thriller set in 1940s Ireland revealed an influx of German agents who despaired about their gossipy, amateurish Irish sympathisers.” >full text & photo (c) IRISH TIMES, 2013
The GDR’s secret 1980s skater scene
Posted in Uncategorized with tags GDR, Germany, skateboarding, Stasi, youth culture on 3 December 2013 by delclem
“Skateboarding was American, therefore subversive and dangerous, so the Stasi began monitoring the skating community to keep tabs on any potential troublemakers or ringleaders.”>full article (c) vice.com 2013
Mozart’s mug shot
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Facial composite, mug shot, Music, Salzburg, Vienna, Wiesbaden, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 2 December 2013 by delclem
“This picture is a facial composite of W. A. Mozart, ca. 1777, generated around 1991 by the Federal German Police (BKA), from four portraits that appeared during Mozart’s lifetime. The details on how or why they did this are scarce, unfortunately. In 1777 Mozart was twenty-one years old;” he died 222 years ago. >full text (c) dangerous minds 2013
Surviving on Music
Posted in Uncategorized with tags concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holocaust, survivors, Terezín, testimony, Theresienstadt on 1 December 2013 by delclemHow Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust witness, survived the horrific ordeal of Theresienstadt (Terezín) with music. >article (c) open culture 2013
The former concentration camp >photos
Omarska
Posted in Uncategorized with tags atrocities, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, concentration cam, genocide, Omarska, The hague Tribunal on 30 November 2013 by delclem
Judge Theodor Meron visits the former concentration camp of 1992.
Former prisoners of the camp expressed their anger that the Hague Tribunal’s
president (who is a Holocaust survivor himself) was not permitted to see all the
former buildings of Omarska during his visit.>full article
(c) Bosnian Genocide 26 Nov. 2013
WW2 genocides in Croatia/Bosnia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, Jasenovac, Serbia, Ustasha, yugoslavia on 29 November 2013 by delclem“From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.” A documentary with English subtitles. (Later, unfortunately, the camp of Jasenovac would me used to legitimize and/or relativize Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s.)
The depressing Prison of Zenica
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, correction, discipline, Human Rights, prison, Zenica on 28 November 2013 by delclem
In Zenica, Bosnia-Hercegovina, nowadays – in the prison built by the Austro-Hungarian colonial administration long ago as a disciplinary tool: “I’m a sucker for stories about disobedience, which is why I’m always eager to go on prison monitoring missions; everybody I end up meeting has a story, a cause and something or someone they’ve failed to obey.” >full story (c) vice.com 2013
The Baltic states
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Baltics, Estonia, latvia, Lithuania, photography, Soviet Union on 27 November 2013 by delclem
in Soviet times, seen through the lens of local photographers.
>slideshow (c) livejournal.com 2013
Sleeping sunbathers in Lithuania
Posted in Uncategorized with tags beach, beauty, comfort zone, Lithuania, photography, Tadao Cern on 26 November 2013 by delclem
“Photographer Tadao Cern spent a weekend photographing people as they slept on a public beach in Lithuania. The art project, entitled Comfort Zone, aims to explore how different surroundings can affect people’s behaviour and inhibitions.” >more (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Watch a weird Wittgenstein
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Derek Jarman, film, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philsophy on 25 November 2013 by delclem“When last week we featured Bertrand Russell telling a story about his philosophical disciple Ludwig Wittgenstein, I mentioned in passing a film about the latter by Derek Jarman” shot 20 years ago. >more (c) open culture 2013
delirium clemens 