Strong Central European women making history: the case of an inhabitant of Bratislava/ Pressburg/ Pozsony, Slovakia, who helped saving thousands of Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (My apologies for the bad style/translation.) >full text
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
Archive for Bratislava
Making history: Gizi Fleischmann (1892-1944)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, Holocaust, Pozsony, Pressburg, Second World War, Slovakia on 19 May 2013 by delclemIn memoriam Central Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bratislava, Central Europe, Eric Hobsbawm, Great Britain, Habsburg, history, portrait, railway, Slovakia, Vienna on 15 April 2013 by delclem“Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), the great historian, travels from his native Vienna to Bratislava (formerly Pressburg). A train journey of a mere 35 miles takes him through a tiny landscape that has seen some of the most turbulent political changes of the century – from the lost world of the Habsburgs to Europe’s newest state, Slovakia. ‘Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history,’ says Hobsbawm.” video portrait (c) VIMEO, 2012
Spooky Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, floklore, ghost stories, legends, Slovakia on 22 January 2013 by delclem
“This week we are visiting the capital city nearest to Vienna. Bratislava has also been the scene of many mysterious events that have inspired people’s imagination and given rise to scary stories & legends.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Districts: Petržalka, Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, housing, Petržalka, Slovakia on 1 June 2012 by delclem
“On the right bank of the Danube in district V is Petržalka, which has about 115,000 inhabitants, one quarter of Bratislava’s entire population. Fifty years ago this region was famous for its fruit orchards, forests and rural character. In the 1970s it became the symbol of the city’s growth and today contains the largest prefabricated housing estate in Central Europe.” >text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
New life for factories
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, industrial archeology, museums, Slovakia on 16 February 2012 by delclem
“The Slovak capital Bratislava has a rich industrial legacy. Abandoned tobacco factories, water storage tanks, gasworks and railway stations, some of which are over a hundred years old, are prominent features of the urban landscape. Because of the city’s rapid development, these gigantic sites, which used to be on the outskirts, are now gradually being incorporated into the city and are thus attracting the attention of real estate developers” – and museum projects…
>article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Socialist architecture in Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, Danube, Slovakia, socialist architecture on 15 November 2011 by delclem
Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
Strange love for bunkers
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, bunkers, Czechoslovakia, military history, Slovakia on 16 September 2011 by delclem
“Petržalka, the largest district in the Slovak capital Bratislava / Pozsony / Pressburg, is most well known for the apartment blocks of its vast public housing projects. Few of the over 100,000 inhabitants know about the silent witnesses to the (Czechoslovak) past nearby, often hidden in the undergrowth.”
3 cool CEE travel tips 4 the summer
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Moscow, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia, Travel tips, Zagreb on 31 July 2011 by delclem
Viennese Blood & Brood
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bratislava, Central Europe, FPÖ, Muslims, Racism, Right populism, Slovakia, Vienna on 4 October 2010 by delclem
The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) took the liberty of placing an overtly racist poster in Vienna for the City Council elections on 10 October, bearing the slogan: Mehr Mut für unser Wiener Blut (‘More courage for our Viennese Blood’). This is in many ways instructive for hopeless cultural analysts like me who are interested in vampirism as well.
delirium clemens 