The Austrian-born American diva Hedy Lamarr “was feted for her beauty — but she also had a talent for inventions, including elements of today’s GPS.”
Article by Peter Conradi (c) THE SUNDAY TIMES, 2011
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Hedy Lamarr: inventor & movie star
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Austria, film history, film star, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, inventions, Vienna on 30 November 2011 by delclemArtie Schnitzler meets David Lynch
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, David Lynch, theatre, Vienna on 29 November 2011 by delclem
“Weit.Way.Land, a cool and witty production combining Schnitzler’s Undiscovered Country and David Lynch’s Lost Highway, which can still be seen at Vienna’s Off Theater through the end of January.”
>MORE (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
Playing Doctor in Central Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, Germany, Johannes Hahn, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Karlheinz, PhD, plagiarism on 27 November 2011 by delclem
R.I.P. Austrian comedian (1922-2011)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, comedian, Georg Kreisler, New York, song, Vienna on 24 November 2011 by delclem“Georg(e) Kreisler, one of Austria’s most prolific satirists & comedians, has died. Continue reading
Oskar Kokoschka & his doll
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alma Mahler, Austria, doll, fetishism, Oskar Kokoschka, Vienna on 17 November 2011 by delclem
After his breakup with Alma Mahler, Kokoschka, in deepest desperation, ordered a life-size doll from a doll-maker in Munich which should resemble Alma in every detail, and he thought it would help him console himself for the loss of his loved one. Not surprisingly, the result was disappointing: a clumsy construction of fabric and wood-wool, which Kokoschka had beheaded at a wild, orgiastic party in his atelier in Dresden, in 1919. And so he separated himself from the curse of his life, Alma, in effigy form.
Cronenberg & Mortensen do Freud
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, C. G. Jung, Canada, David Cronenberg, Fin-de-siècle, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna, Viggo Mortensen on 7 November 2011 by delclemViggo Mortensen replaced Christoph Waltz when it came to play Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method (2011)
> Article on “Freuds movie treatments”.
Popstar or Classic?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Franz Liszt, Hungary, Music on 22 October 2011 by delclem
“When you think of rock n’ roll, Franz Liszt might not be the first name that comes to mind. But the classical pianist, born 200 years ago today, was in many ways the first rock star of all time.” Article (c) NPR, 2011
“River water music for diehards”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Dragoljub Milanović, Literature, Peter Handke, review, Serbia, yugoslavia on 20 October 2011 by delclemThe Story of Dragoljub Milanović: a true Handke indeed.
“This is not a sermon, but (…) a story. A story to tell, if necessary, to a woodpile or an empty snail shell or even to myself alone, by the way not for the first time –”*
Peter Handke’s narrator, the self-appointed chronicler of Dragoljub Milanović’ Story, suffers from a strangely missionary pessimism that leads him to formulate unbearably beautiful sentences like the one quoted. And if no one listens to him, he is just going to talk to his “shoelace”, the “nutcracker”, or even a “worn-out doormat.”
‘Talk to the hand,” evil tongues of Americanized origin probably would tell him, but in Continue reading
The radiant heroes of Jáchymov
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bohemia, Bohumil Modrý, Czech Republic, ice hockey, Jáchymov, Literature, prison camp, review, Sankt Joachimsthal, Uranium on 2 October 2011 by delclem
A new novel by Austrian author Josef Haslinger recalls the gloomy gulag past of a Bohemian health spa. Continue reading
Pilgrimage to Hell
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, bosnia-hercegovina, Croatia, Literature, Medjugorje, pilgrimage, review on 18 September 2011 by delclem
Thomas Glavinic’ new novel on a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina: Unterwegs im Namen des Herren [On the road in the name of the Lord].
Troubles begin early, when the first-person narrator boards “a not quite new coach which will bring me and the other pilgrims from Vienna to Medjugorje. There every day the mother of God appears, in whom I don’t believe unfortunately.” Predictable that for an undercover atheist writer and his photographer Ingo, this must become a living hell, even if he wants to get inspired by such environment.
delirium clemens 