Austria is probably the only modern state in EUrope whose voters have not abolished the draft in a plebiscite. Continue reading
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Militant mountain people?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags army, Austria, Bundesheer, conscription, national defence, referendum on 20 February 2013 by delclem“Murdered, buried, denied”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, film, genocide, interview, Lukas Sturm, Srebrenica on 26 January 2013 by delclem
If “writing poem about Auschwitz is barbaric, as German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno claimed: what about feature films on genocide? In this case Body Complete (about the Srebrenica massacre) by Austrian director Lukas Sturm >interview (c) wieninternational.at 2013
“Taoiseach, Nazi, soldier, spy”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, Ireland, Literature, National Socialism, Otto Skorzeny, Second World War, SS, Stuart Neville on 12 January 2013 by delclem
Ratlines, the latest novel by North Irish author Stuart Neville, is not only about the former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Charles J Haughey, but also on the prominent Austrian SS-veteran Otto Skorzeny who lived in Ireland from the late 1950s (and was buried at the Döbling cemetery in Vienna after his death in 1975) > text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Heart Break Hotels in Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Belgium, Germany, hotels, Italy, Netherlands, photography, Slovakia, what's in a name? on 10 January 2013 by delclem
“What do you dream of when you stay at Hotel Kummer (German for ‘heartache’)? Who do you meet at Hotel Verloren (‘lost’)? And does breakfast at the B&B Trauer (‘grief’) leave a special taste in your mouth? Artist Conny Habbel and author Franz Adrian Wenzl went to see the most desperate hotels in Europe.” >Text & photos (album) (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Masculinity exposed in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, art history, Austria, Europe, exhibition, gender, masculinity, nudity sexuality, review, Vienna on 6 January 2013 by delclem
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
Playful Economy
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Andreas Tönnesmann, Austria, board games, Charles Darrow, cultural history, Europe, Germany, Monopoly, USA on 24 December 2012 by delclem
The history of the board game Monopoly Continue reading
“Bourgeois Nightmares”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Europe, film, Michael Haneke, review on 13 December 2012 by delclem
“Horror movies frighten us; violent thrillers agitate us; sentimental stories make us cry. Suffering is often part of our enjoyment. Within limits, however: we are not to be so displeased that we are not pleased. Buñuel deliberately went beyond the limits of permissible displeasure. And so, in his own way, does the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke” (winner of the European Film Award 2012 in four categories). Text (c) THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2012
Worshipped, whipped & ridiculed
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Germany, Music, Richard Wagner on 10 December 2012 by delclem
“May 2013 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, the German composer who has always been popular and controversial in equal measure. The Austrian National Library (ÖNB) is already holding an exhibition dedicated to the ambivalent relationship between the German composer and the Viennese public.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Peter Handke’s 70th Birthday
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, birthday, Literature, Peter Handke, Višegrad on 7 December 2012 by delclem
“The Landscapes Through Which We Traveled” –
a text by Žarko Radaković (c) Open Letters Monthly 2012.
In the text there are no words about the photo: The bridge over the river Drina in Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina – setting for a famous novel and for a less famous genocide…
My birthday wishes for Peter Handke would be a bit harsher – unfortunately they are only available in German…
Soviet architectures
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Baltic Soviet republics, cultural history, Estonia, exhibition, latvia, Lithuania, socialist architecture, Soviet Union on 24 November 2012 by delclem
“The Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW) takes a look in its current exhibition at the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR. The stories about Soviet modernism related by researchers and eye witnesses are practically unknown. ‘We dispell once and for all the myth that the architecture in the former Soviet Union was completely different from the West,’ says AzW director Dietmar Steiner at the presentation of the new exhibition. The elaborate research and exhibition project takes a close look at the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.” >Text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2012
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