Archive for Sarajevo

3 cool CEE travel tips 4 the summer

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on 31 July 2011 by delclem

Part 1: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest

Part 2: Bucharest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague

Part 3: Moscow, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb

(c) wieninternational.at, Summer 2011

Shadow of a Gunman: Gavril Princip´s afterlife

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 28 June 2011 by delclem

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The frail-looking student who on 28 June 1914 shot the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his Czech wife Sophie does not rest in peace: Gavril Princip is one of the many ghosts that rumble in the cultural memory of Central Europe like a nocturnal flatulence.

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EUro-sceptical theatre from the South East

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 17 May 2011 by delclem

The polemical poster of one of the biggest theatre co-productions ever in the region
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Lawrence Durrell: Sarajevo

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on 12 April 2011 by delclem

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And down at last into this lap of stone
Between four cataracts of rock: a town
Peopled by sleepy eagles, whispering only
Of the sunburnt herdsman’s hopeless ploy:
A sterile earth quickened by shards of rock
Where nothing grows, not even in his sleep,
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Going for a Smoke: Letter from Sarajevo

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on 3 April 2011 by delclem

Welcome to Sarajevo: On Ron Haviv’s famous war photo from 1994 you can see men wearing uniforms in front of a ruined house. A fire and smoke break. Nowadays, a poster outside Sarajevo airport carries the same title, but it shows a happy family, the Sebilj Fountain in the old part of town – and a bottle of Coke: icon of a lifestyle change in the 15 years after the war?

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The Scars of War (Sarajevo)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on 25 March 2011 by delclem

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To be found in Sarajevo and many other places in the region.
They have become almost invisible, so you need to look closely to trace them.
But they are still there, signs of a trauma to overcome.

Docus on the Bosnian Tragedy (1992-95)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 1 March 2011 by delclem

BBC documentary (1995)

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