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,
for sharing this on facebook
Archive for Hungary
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 delclem“Wild Hungarians”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art history, Hungary, review, Vienna exhibition on 25 October 2012 by delclem
“Green skin, women painted in shades of sulphur yellow or mountains in red: something that caused a scandal 100 years ago has now become part of the art history’s standard repertory.” Review of an exhibition @ the Kunstforum in Vienna (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Hospital on the Rocks
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Budapest, bunker, castle hill, hospital, Hungary, museum, Sziklakórház on 10 September 2012 by delclem
“Most of the visitors strolling in the castle area of Buda(pest) probably don’t know that beneath their feet in the depths there is a strange and completely different world: the Sziklakórház, a network of caves which was used in Hungary’s turbulent past as a hospital, nuclear and civil defence bunker, air raid warning centre and headquarters of the German SS.” It has been turned into a speculative museum rather than into a memorial… Text (c) wieninternational.at 2012
High hopes for FUTURA
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Hungary, Mosonmagyaróvár, museum, review on 14 August 2012 by delclem
“FUTURA, an ancient granary from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy converted into an interactive nature-adventure attraction, is expected to bring a boom in international tourism to Mosonmagyaróvár, a small Hungarian spa resort of some 80 kilometres from Vienna.” >review (c) wieninternational.at 2012
Raoul Wallenberg 1912-47(?): savior & victim
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Holocaust, Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Sweden, World War Two on 4 August 2012 by delclem
“A Swedish diplomat saved the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, but his fate since he was abducted by the Soviets in 1945 is unknown.”
A call to remember & research on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
>full text (c) HAARETZ, 2012 >video on Wallenberg (c) YouTube, 2011
A statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv: photo by Tomer Appelbaum
Upper photo: Wallenberg portrait in the Austrian Embassy, Budapest (c) EPA
“City without Jews” in Vienna & Budapest
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Antisemitism, Austria, Hugo Bettauer, Hungary on 28 May 2012 by delclem
Stadt ohne Juden(“City without Jews”) was the title of a 1922 best-selling novel by the Jewish Viennese author Hugo Bettauer who was assassinated by an Austrian Nazi three years later; it is available in print again (see the review in the German section of my blog). It is an disturbingly prophetic piece of fiction about a Viennese mayor who expels the jews from ‘his’ city (although everything comes to a happy ending eventually; unfortunately is subscribes to some stereotypes about Jews as well).
Continent of Corruption
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, corruption, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, politics, Slovakia on 17 April 2012 by delclem
Bribes as the Lubricant of Neoliberal Central Europe
Let’s be honest: the center of Europe is not just the region of phony Habsburg nostalgia and a shared cuisine. It is also the place where experienced patients hand over a box of chocolates (with a creatively hidden banknote) to the treating doctor and/or the nurse. Continue reading
Post-apocalyptic
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bela Tarr, film, Hungary, Nietzsche on 17 March 2012 by delclemIncredibly intense movie by Béla Tarr.
Depression à la Central Europe.
“Lives Crisscross in Hungary”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags hsitroy, Hungary, Literature, Péter Nádas, review on 7 March 2012 by delclem
“Péter Nádas’ Parallel Stories is actually a hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive and at times maddeningly dense novel intent on obliterating historical, geographical, literary and structural borders. ‘Parallel’ doesn’t really begin to describe how these stories interact with one another. They converge and diverge; they overlap; they crisscross, loop around and double back on one another, resulting in a defiantly nonlinear novel that attempts the daunting feat of recreating the fragmented, and perhaps even shell-shocked experience of living in Hungary during the 20th century.”
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> full text by Adam Langer; photo: Barna Burger (c) NYT, 2011
“The Tolstoy of Transylvania”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Hungary, Literature, Miklós Bánffy, review, Transylvania on 29 February 2012 by delclem
“In his column in the Daily Telegraph, former editor Charles Moore praises Miklós Bánffy as ‘the Tolstoy of Transylvania’. Ardent Banffyites like yours truly are always pleased when the Hungarian novelist gets attention in the English-speaking world, which happens all too rarely. (…) Simply put, Bánffy is a must-read.” Reblogged text (c) andrewcusack.com, 2008
delirium clemens 