Archive for Habsburg Monarchy

‘Die Matrosen von Cattaro’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 1 February 2018 by delclem

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Heute vor 100 Jahren meuterten die Matrosen im zweiten k.u.k. Kriegshafen, dem heutigen Kotor (Montenegro). Es war zwar nicht der Panzerkreuzer Potemkin, aber “[d]as Beispiel der Revolte russischer Matrosen in der Ostseefestung Kronstadt (Oktober/November 1917) und deren Auswirkung auf die Machtübernahmen durch die Bolschewiki konnte ebenso wenig verdrängt werden wie die revolutionären Vorgänge in deutschen Häfen.” Die Meuterei scheiterte, schrieb aber später Literaturgeschichte, mit dem gleichnamigen Agitprop-Drama von Friedrich Wolf in der Weimarer Republik. >>Volltext & Bild (c) WiENER ZEiTUNG, 2018

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Stalin in Vienna: 1913, 1949, 2012

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 12 January 2014 by delclem

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101 years ago, in January 1913, Ioseb B. dze Jugashvili aka. Joseph Stalin stayed in Vienna for a while to investigate the multi-ethnic setup of the Habsburg Monarchy for his publication on Marxism & the National Question.In 1949 the Austrian Communist Party KPÖ put a commorative plaque on the facade of the building in Schönbrunner Schlosstraße (no. 30) on the occasion of Stalin’s 70th birthday. In 2012, an additional plaque was mounted to commemorate Stalin’s/Stalinist crimes as well – a very Austrian solution to the problem, it seems. >more (in German); photo (c)ru, 2014

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“The EU & the Habsburg Monarchy”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 29 July 2013 by delclem

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“The threat that the EU now faces is as deadly as the one that confronted the Habsburg Monarchy a hundred years ago, writes British diplomat Robert Cooper, one of the intellectual architects of EU foreign policy. But getting it right does not need a miracle.”>full text & image (c) eurozine / IM, 2013

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The dark side of Habsburg power

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 17 October 2012 by delclem

 

“In most films Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I are portrayed as a dream couple. If we look a little more closely, however, we find that they were only too human, with their flaws, addictions, compulsions and often capricious preferences.” Text on Habsburg films, books and an exhibition
(c) wieninternational.at 2012PS. I am not sure if this is really the “dark side of the Habsburgs” (in this context, also see the “Schwarzbuch der Habsburger“, ed. by Leidinger et al., Vienna: Deuticke 2003). However, the “Sisi Myth” about the “Lady Die” of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has at least been shattered and proven to be for sissies; it took a long time…

 

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Zagreb´s greatest inventor

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 23 November 2011 by delclem

was a product of Habsburg Central Europe himself,
with Polish-Dutch and other roots…

Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2011

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Milena Mrazović(-Preindlsberger), 1863-1927

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 18 October 2011 by delclem

The First Female Newspaper Editor & Publisher of Sarajevo

This paper is a biographical sketch on the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina ever to take the position of the chief editor, publisher and owner of a newspaper. This Croatian-born writer, and journalist was in charge of the newspaper Bosnische Post (published in the German language, 1884-1918) between 1889 to 1896.”

Reblogged from Tinnitus of Books 2010

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