Today is the birthday of British singer Marianne Faithfull Geburtstag. Besides, she is not only one of the most sucessful groupies of pop history (having been Mick Jagger’s lover), but also the great-grandniece of the (in)famous Austrian Ukrainian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Venus in Furs). Her mother and grandmother were born in Vienna and in 1945, after the end of WW2, raped by Soviet soldiers. Marianne was born in 1946 as the daughter of an English officer of the British occupation forces.
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Faithfull’s Austrian roots
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1945, Austria, Great Britain, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger, pop music, rape, Soviet Union, Venus in Furs, Vienna on 29 December 2013 by delclemWatch 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
Ludwig Wittgenstein & ‘Fuzzy’ Photography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, photography, University of Cambridge on 11 September 2013 by delclem
“For the unsentimentally cerebral Wittgenstein, a photograph is not a memorial, but a ‘probability’. The philosopher’s archive at the University of Cambridge includes the photograph above, a true ‘probability’ in that it does not represent any one person but is a composite image of his face and the faces of his three sisters, made in collaboration with the ‘founding father of eugenics,’ Francis Galton.” (Well, I don’t buy the latter, since Galton dies in 1911…) >full text (c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem
“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
“Yellow Street”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Elias Canetti, exile, Great Britain, Literature, London, portrait, Veza Canetti, Vienna, Yellow Street on 30 May 2013 by delclem
“Mean husbands, despairing servant girls, lecherous café owners and a snapping dog: these are just some of the protagonists who breathe life into the novel “Yellow Street”(1990) by Veza Canetti (1897-1963).” >text & photo album
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
Why DracuLand still stokes British anxieties
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bulgaria, Dracula, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, immigrants, migration, Romania, Stereotyping, UK on 17 May 2013 by delclem
Past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration in the UK
>full text & illustration (c) BBC HISTORY, 2013
Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading
Just Identity Issues…?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Die Identitären, Europe, France, Great Britain, party, politics, right-wing extremism on 25 April 2013 by delclem
“A new (dangerous?) breed of activist right-wing extremism is spreading across Europe: Die Identitären.” >text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
In 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
Return to Berlin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, David Bowie, Germany, Great Britain, Music, Pop on 8 January 2013 by delclemIn his new single – the only one in 10 years – David Bowie takes us on a trip down memory lane in… BERLIN, on the occasion of his 66th birthday today.
delirium clemens 