Er wünscht der neuen österreichischen Bundesregierung einen schönen Angelobungstag!
Oder: ein Ösi erklärt dem Piefke seine kleine Welt.
(c) Andrea Schaffar
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Thomas Bernhard weiß Bescheid
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, politics, Thomas Bernhard on 17 December 2017 by delclem“Vienna – Berlin: The Art of Two Cities”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, Berlin, exhibition, Germany, Vienna on 27 February 2014 by delclem
“Whereas the affinities in literature and music between Vienna and Berlin have been the subject of in-depth study in recent years, there is still a lot of ground to be covered in the visual arts. This is a desideratum that the Berlinische Galerie and the Vienna Belvedere have sought to overcome in a large-scale exhibition organized by both museums.” >review & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2014
The Full Irish, Freudian Style
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Ireland, jokes, national stereotypes, Sigmund Freud, Stereotyping on 18 February 2014 by delclem
‘His book includes at least one Irish joke, which Freud (above) considered very interesting. It’s an old joke, from the 19th century. And it must be said that, while few witticisms remain funny after Freud has analysed them, this one was struggling even before it reached the couch.’ >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES
Freud’s Life & Legacy – in a Comic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, comics, graphic nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, review, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 16 February 2014 by delclem
“In recent years, the comic book genre has been applied to a wealth of graphic nonfiction for grownups, ranging from famous biographies to philosophy, but nowhere does the genre shine more exquisitely than in Freud — a magnificent biography-as-graphic-novel of the founding father of psychoanalysis by Swiss-born writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corinne Maier, illustrated by celebrated French cartoonist Anne Simon.”>full review (c) brainpickings.org 2014
“My romance in a town haunted by its Nazi past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Jewish identity, love, National Socialism, Nazi past, romance, travel literature, Vienna on 21 January 2014 by delclem
“I was a young Jewish woman dating an older man, but I couldn’t escape Vienna’s dark history, or my fears about his.” The following is adapted from “Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour,” Rachel Shukert’s just-published memoir of traveling and living in Europe in her very early 20s. This excerpt takes place in Vienna, in the summer of 2003. >full text & illustration (c) SALON, 2014
PS. Why are these bitter sweet & slightly kitschy stories – a sort of Nazi romance/porn – so highly in demand in the English-speaking world?
Stalin in Vienna: 1913, 1949, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Joseph Stalin, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Vienna on 12 January 2014 by delclem
101 years ago, in January 1913, Ioseb B. dze Jugashvili aka. Joseph Stalin stayed in Vienna for a while to investigate the multi-ethnic setup of the Habsburg Monarchy for his publication on Marxism & the National Question.In 1949 the Austrian Communist Party KPÖ put a commorative plaque on the facade of the building in Schönbrunner Schlosstraße (no. 30) on the occasion of Stalin’s 70th birthday. In 2012, an additional plaque was mounted to commemorate Stalin’s/Stalinist crimes as well – a very Austrian solution to the problem, it seems. >more (in German); photo (c)ru, 2014
Vienna, Southern Station
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, cultural history, F. Witt, railway, Südbahnhof, train station, Vienna on 30 December 2013 by delclem
Südbahnhof, the vanished train station of Vienna. Bombed down in 1945, re-erected in the 1950s and torn down again tp create the space needed for Vienna’s new Central Train Station. Image: an aquarell by F. Witt, ca 1900
(c) WIENER G’SCHICHTEN, 2013
Faithfull’s Austrian roots
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1945, Austria, Great Britain, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger, pop music, rape, Soviet Union, Venus in Furs, Vienna on 29 December 2013 by delclem
Today is the birthday of British singer Marianne Faithfull Geburtstag. Besides, she is not only one of the most sucessful groupies of pop history (having been Mick Jagger’s lover), but also the great-grandniece of the (in)famous Austrian Ukrainian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Venus in Furs). Her mother and grandmother were born in Vienna and in 1945, after the end of WW2, raped by Soviet soldiers. Marianne was born in 1946 as the daughter of an English officer of the British occupation forces.
“Inward-Looking Portraits”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 22 December 2013 by delclem
The Lucian Freud exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum was one of the highlights of the autumn 2013 exhibition season. Those who have not yet done so are well advised to check it out before 12 January. It’s worth it! >Text (a bit odd;) & album with images (c) wieninternational.at 2013 Also see another text posted earlier.
delirium clemens 