Joe Zawinul (1932-2007) recording his symphony “Stories of the Danube”: excerpts from the music & interview (c) earospace / youtube 2008
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“Stories of the Danube”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, Danube, interview, jazz, Joe Zavinual, Music, symphony on 27 October 2013 by delclemOn the Danger of Totalitarianism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Agnes Heller, Hungary, interview, philosophy, Totalitarianism on 20 October 2013 by delclem
The Nexus Institute invited the speakers of the Nexus Conference How to Change the World to grant them a short interview. All speakers accepted and shared their valuable insights; one of them was the renowned Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller (c) THE NEXUS INSTITUTE / youtube 2013
‘Shards’ – Leaving Bosnia (or not)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags autobiography, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, fiction, interview, Ismet Prcic, Literature, review, Tuzla on 8 September 2013 by delclem
“There is a long & important history of memoirs & fictions, and hybrids of the two, that address the aftermath of war (particularly the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s). Shards, the impressive first novel by Ismet Prcic, finds inventive ways to interrogate the anguish of enduring and then escaping Bosnia during the war (1992-95). The novel is constructed of fragments — shards — seemingly written by its main character, Ismet Prcic. Ismet grows up in Tuzla and manages to flee shortly before his induction into the “meat grinder” of the Bosnian infantry. He has survived and made his way to America, but is fractured by what he left behind.” >full review & illustration (c) NYT, 2011; interview with the author (c) Suhrkamp/youtube, 2013
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“A Personal Story of Remembrance & War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, interview, Madeleine Albright, memoir, Prague, USA on 17 March 2013 by delclem
Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson interviews Marie Jana Korbel(ová) – aka. the US ex-foreign minister Madeleine Albright – about her latest book, a memoir of her childhood days in Prague (c) ASPEN INSTITUTE / YOUTUBE, 2012
“Murdered, buried, denied”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, film, genocide, interview, Lukas Sturm, Srebrenica on 26 January 2013 by delclem
If “writing poem about Auschwitz is barbaric, as German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno claimed: what about feature films on genocide? In this case Body Complete (about the Srebrenica massacre) by Austrian director Lukas Sturm >interview (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Interview with HER
Posted in Uncategorized with tags exhibition, interview, Marina Abramović, Performance art, USA, Vienna, Yugolavia on 26 October 2012 by delclemInterview (c) MoMa / YouTube, 2012
A current exhibition of Marina Abramović‘s works is currently on @ Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna.
Eco: ‘It’s culture, not war, that cements European identity’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags culture, Europe, interview, Italy, Umberto Eco on 31 January 2012 by delclem
The writer and semiologist Umberto Eco advocates a sexual revolution to make us all ‘European’. Interview by Gianni Riotti, La Stampa;
English (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012; photo: Sarah Lee
Meta-Maus
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Art Spiegelman, comic book, graphic novel, Holocaust, interview on 10 October 2011 by delclem
“When cartoonist Art Spiegelman published his epic Holocaust graphic novel, Maus, 25 years ago, a lot changed. He received a special Pulitzer Prize and became a contributor and cover artist for the New Yorker.
Maus blends the stories of Spiegelman’s trying relationship with his father and a horrifying tale of Auschwitz, as seen through his father’s eyes. Spiegelman drew the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. But Maus has continued to haunt him.
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus is the story behind Spiegelman’s signature work, complete with interviews, answers to many persistent questions and examples of his early drawings.”
>> SOUND FILE & ARTICLE (c) npr, 2011
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