“While Saint Nicholas may bring gifts to good boys and girls, ancient folklore in Europe’s Alpine region also tells of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who emerges during the Yule season, looking for naughty children to punish in horrible ways — or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack.” >text & photo album (c) THE ATLANTIC, 2013 – more questions: see another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Archive for Austria
Krampus: Santa’s dark side
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alps, Austria, customs, folklore, Germany, Krampus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nicholas Day, Santa Claus, Yule on 5 December 2013 by delclemMozart’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
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
Anniversary of Viennese anti-Semitism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, anti-Semitism, Austria, commemoration, Germany, National Socialism, November Pogrom, Vienna on 9 November 2013 by delclem
A commemoration for the co-called “Night of Broken Glass”, the Nazi Pogroms
on 9 November 1938. >text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2013
“Stories of the Danube”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, Danube, interview, jazz, Joe Zavinual, Music, symphony on 27 October 2013 by delclemJoe Zawinul (1932-2007) recording his symphony “Stories of the Danube”: excerpts from the music & interview (c) earospace / youtube 2008
Iconoclasm in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, cultural memory, Joef Weinheber, Literature, monuments, National Socialism, poetry, Vienna on 25 October 2013 by delclem
This work deals with a memorial to Austrian poet and Nazi Josef Weinheber (1892-1945) which stands at the Schillerpark in Vienna’s city centre. A temporary intervention aimed at exposing its conflicted history and leading to a permanent artistic reconfiguration and contextualization of the monument.
>more (c) Eduard Freudmann, 2013
The History of VIENNA in 11 parts
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, history, Vienna on 6 October 2013 by delclem
Very helpful educational website. Just click on the link and select one of the languages available: German, English, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, BCS, Slovene, Russian, Romanian. All texts (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Photographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 2013
“what’s wrong with the modern world”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Austria, Europe, Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus, Literature, modernity on 20 September 2013 by delclem
“While we are busy tweeting, texting and spending, the world is drifting towards disaster, believes Jonathan Franzen, whose despair at our insatiable technoconsumerism echoes the apocalyptic essays of the satirist Karl Kraus – ‘the Great Hater’.”>full text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
1913 – The Year Before the Storm
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, Europe, Florien Illies, Germany, history, Literature, World War I on 17 September 2013 by delclem
“Can you write a history of the year 1913 and ignore the disaster waiting around the corner? With the centenary of the First World War approaching that may sound perverse, yet it is precisely what Die Zeit journalist Florian Illies tries to do in his new book, which was a bestseller in Germany when it was published there last year.” >review (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
delirium clemens 