Austrian French director MICHAEL HANEKE won the Special Award at the Cannes Film festival with his new movie Amour: see the review (c) NYT, 2012
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Rewarded Love
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Amour, Austria, Cannes Film festival, film, France, Germany, Michael Haneke, review on 17 September 2012 by delclem“The Shadowy Soul of Joseph Roth”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, France, Galicia, Joseph Roth, letters, Literature, Michael Hofmann, review on 13 September 2012 by delclem
“In a collection of his letters newly-translated and edited by [our dear young colleague] Michael Hofmann, Joseph Roth is given a new stage for his linguistic genius and vigilant criticism, as well as his inability to use that critical vision to save himself from himself.” Review (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2012
Peter Sloterdijk’s “Bubbles”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bubbles, ecology, environment, Germany, Peter Sloterdijk, philosophy, review on 21 August 2012 by delclem
“Bubbles is the first volume of Peter Sloterdijk‘s hugely ambitious and suggestive trilogy Spheres (1998-2004) to appear in English. Here he attempts nothing less than a metaphysical history of enclosed spaces, utopian or practical pods and domes, real and fantastical atmospheres or ecosystems.” Review (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
Illustration: carpet by Margret Eicher Sloterdijk facing the Holy Inquisition of Trivial Taste
Underground with Mozart & Co.
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, museum, review, sights, underground, Vienna on 15 August 2012 by delclem
“A new tourist attraction takes visitors underground where they can listen to Mozart, experience a model air raid shelter or run with the rats.” > Review
(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
Hesse has been dead for 50 years now…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Germany, Hermann Hesse, Literature, review, Switzerland on 9 August 2012 by delclem
“Hermann Hesse spent his life searching for truth and inner harmony outside Germany. Yet his quests to the East ultimately led him back to the West and to the realization that the alternatives he found in the East offered no short cut to salvation. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, Gunnar Decker presents a new biography of the successful author, one which also explains the Orientalism in his work.” >review (c) Qantara.de 2012
Schrödinger’s Cat in Dublin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, cats, Dublin, Erwin Schrödinger, Ireland, physics, review on 25 June 2012 by delclem
“The Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel laureate in Physics & famous
for his theory about the feline in the box, spent his happiest years in Dublin.
“And Europe Will Be Stunned”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags film, Israel, Poland, review, The Netherlands on 23 June 2012 by delclem
“And Europe Will Be Stunned is a deeply stirring and contentious film trilogy by the Dutch-Israeli artist Yael Bartana, soon to open in Britain on its European tour. Each film is enough to disturb; together they are peculiarly subversive. I do not know exactly what they might mean to Jewish, Israeli or Palestinian viewers, still less to a Polish audience watching some of the scenes unfolding on the site of the Warsaw Ghettoitself. But my sense is that an anxious concern for other people’s reactions is at least part of the trilogy’s content.” >full review (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Photo (c) Yael Bartana/Marcin Kalinski
“The War is Dead, Long Live the War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags aftermath, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, review on 20 June 2012 by delclem
Ed Vulliamy’s account of the Bosnian War (1992-95) and its aftermath shows why the conflict stirred a special anger. >Review (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2012
Photo: elderly Muslim women grieve in a refugee centre sheltering Muslim families after they fled the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 (c) Tom Stoddart/Getty
“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
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