“I escaped Hitler’s Germany and built a new life. As one of the Kindertransport refugees, I arrived in London knowing no one: 75 years later I’m blessed with my own family.” memoir (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
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Story of a Kindertransport survivor
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Germany, Greta-Britain, Judy Benton, Kindertransport, London on 9 December 2013 by delclemPhotographer & Soviet spy with a conscience
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Communism, Edith Tudor-Hart, espionage, exhibition, Greta-Britain, London, photography, Soviet Union, Vienna on 3 October 2013 by delclem
“When Edith Tudor-Hart wasn’t working as a Soviet agent, she was taking lovingly realistic portraits of London’s workers and street children. Now, for the first time, a retrospective is celebrating her double life.” >full text (c) THE TELEGRAPH, 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
“Speak, Memory”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Blitz, England, false memories, London, memory, narrative, Oliver Sacks, Second World War on 4 April 2013 by delclem
The famous neuro-scientist Oliver Sacks about his ‘false’ childhood memories of the London “Blitz” (1940-41), which were instigated by a family letter – and what this tells us about the working of memory (and narrative) >full text
(c) THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013
Illustration: Heinrich Kühn, Hans with Bureau, 1905, taken from The Perfect Photograph, exhibition catalog, Albertina, Vienna (eds. Monika Faber & Astrid Mahler, publ. by Hatje Cantz).
Freud’s Cocaine Years
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, London, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 24 July 2011 by delclem
> On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.” < . READ MORE >
PS. On 20 July 2011, Freud´s grandson Lucian, a prominent British painter,
died at the age of 88 > OBITUARY > SLIDESHOW
Eyewitness: 20th century Hungarian photography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Brassai, Capa, Hungary, Kertész, London, photography on 2 July 2011 by delclemBrassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
exhibition @ Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sackler Wing of Galleries
30 June—2 October 2011
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