This photo was published in 1987; it is supposed to show Oscar Wilde in costume as Salome. But, in 1992, Oscar’s grandson would confirm the photo (1907) is actually Hungarian opera singer Alice Guszalewicz
in the title role in Salomé
(R. Strauss)
in Leipzig.-
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” (Oscar Wilde)
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Thanks to Carmilla & the BRAM STOKER ESTATE, 2012,
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Archive for Germany
Salome is Hungarian – not Wilde
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alice Guszdewiez, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Leipzig, opera, Oscar Wilde, Salomé on 12 December 2012 by delclemWorshipped, 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
“Between then and now”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bavarian Forest, Evi Lemberger, Germany, photography on 8 December 2012 by delclem
Between then and now is a documentary project by Evi Lemberger about people and places from a vanishing world. It” is situated in the Bavarian Forest, which is characterized by its rural structure and which is undergoing massive shifts from a traditional to a modern society. Result is the loss of an old life, along with its values and traditions. Another result is a necessity of leaving those behind and starting something new. Thereby those places and people are left behind.” >more (photos & text)
Leipzig is the new Berlin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, gentrification, Germany, hipster, Leipzig, places to be on 27 October 2012 by delclem
“Berlin used to be Germany’s hippest city, but the once scruffy capital has long since succumbed to gentrification. The latest city to attract the creative class is the former East German industrial seat of Leipzig. Moving in by the thousands, they are lured by the euphoric buzz of cheap rent and youthful ingenuity.”
Text & photos (c) SPIEGELonline, 2012
How would you like your coffee?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags coffee culture, coffeehouse, coffeeshop, Germany, Ralf Rüller on 20 October 2012 by delclem
“Coffee bar owner sparks row by banning pushchairs: Ralf Rüller installs stone bollard to keep buggies out of café in Berlin.” An interesting – and controversial – example of coffee(house) culture in the 21st century and its changes over the last 100 years. Text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Eric Hobsbawm, Germany, Great Britain, historiography, history, Marxism, obituary on 3 October 2012 by delclem
“The British Marxist historian (with Central European roots) reclaimed and popularised the value of popular culture – something so integral to our lives
today it seems bizarre it was ever denigrated.” >Arts Blog entry
>Obituary Hobsbawm
>Panel: the Hobsbwam legacy
(with Niall Ferguson, David Priestland, Catherine Merridale & Roy Foster)
All texts (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
“Save Walter Benjamin from his fans!”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags creation of legends, France, Germany, Holocaust, literary criticism, mythology, Second World War, Spain, Walter Benjamin on 26 September 2012 by delclem
Today it is 72 years ago that Walter Benjamin committed suicide at the French-Spanish border. Stephan Wackwitz dissevers literature from science, holiness from genius in the legends of this literary critic who has served as pillar saint for many.
Text (c) DIE WELT / signandsight.com, 2010
Image: the monument Passages by Israeli artist Dani Karavan in Portbou, Spain, commemorating Walter Benjamin. Photo (c) picture-alliance / akg-images
Rewarded Love
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Amour, Austria, Cannes Film festival, film, France, Germany, Michael Haneke, review on 17 September 2012 by delclem
Austrian French director MICHAEL HANEKE won the Special Award at the Cannes Film festival with his new movie Amour: see the review (c) NYT, 2012
Nazi merchandising?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Australia, Austria, branding, Germany, Hitler, India, media, men's wear, merchandising, UK on 31 August 2012 by delclem
“A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”
Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?
And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?
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Youth against Nazism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, National Socialism, Schlurfs, subculture, youth on 26 August 2012 by delclem
“A short account of the Schlurfs, working
class Austrian youth who rejected the
values of Nazism” (c) libcom.org 2012
delirium clemens 