This time, the writing of Aleksandar Hemon is fully autobiographical: “To write about a life, you need a life to write about. Or you used to, anyway. Hemon, as his book’s title implies, has a surfeit. His are the multiple lives of the uprooted: the remembered life of his upbringing in Bosnia, the transposed life of the new immigrant to Chicago and the present life of the author, husband, father.”
>review (c) THE NEW STATESMAN, 2013
A Surrealist history by Derek Sayer >review (c) ART DAILY, 2013
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The successful exhibition Naked Men unveils male nudity: full-frontally.
“Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?” >review (c) THE OBSERVER, 2012
“Horror movies frighten us; violent thrillers agitate us; sentimental stories make us cry. Suffering is often part of our enjoyment. Within limits, however: we are not to be so displeased that we are not pleased. Buñuel deliberately went beyond the limits of permissible displeasure. And so, in his own way, does the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke” (winner of the European Film Award 2012 in four categories). Text (c) THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2012
“What do we talk about when we talk about ghosts?” Review (c) GUARDIAN, 2012
“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
“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 2012
PS. 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…
Austrian and German movie makers are successfully taking up with the boom of film adaptations of literature – and so in the coming weeks moviegoers can also expect some exciting glimpses into the world of Austrian literature: they will be able to see Die Wand by Marlen Haushofer or Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann in a cinema version. >Text & photo (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“Born in Austria in 1947, as a young man he got into bodybuilding and became the best in the world. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Within 10 years, he was a millionaire businessman. After 20 years, he was the world’s biggest movie star. In 2003, after just over 30 years in America, “Arnie” was governor of California and a household name around the globe.” A review of A. SCHWARZENEGGER’s memoirs Total Recall (c) independent.ie 2012; photo (c) Rolf Hayo, 1967
delirium clemens 