This is a beer ad on a bill board near Bratislava airport; the slogan says it all…
and the head belongs to the owner of the (Czech) brewery.
“Cherchez la femme” à la slovaque: a travesty of sorts.
Photo (c) by the author.
Archive for Slovakia
Gender issues in Czecho/Slovakia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags advertising, beer, Feminism, gender, Slovakia on 7 June 2017 by delclemDiscrimination against Roma traced back
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, discrimination, Eastern Europe, gypsies, history, Košice, marginalization, Roma, Slovakia on 1 November 2013 by delclem
“Discrimination against Sinti & Roma is an inextricable part of their millennium-old history in Europe. The discrimination could be seen as an understandable reaction of the settled population to nomadic strangers. However the Roma and their advocates argue that the nomadic lifestyle is a consequence, rather than cause, of the discrimination.” >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
More: How Racist Assumptions fuelled the ‘Maria’ Disaster >text (c) SPIEGEL,2013
Another article: the Slovak city of Košice as ‘slumdog millionaire’?
>text & disturbing photos (c) THE DAILY MAIL, 2013
Making history: Gizi Fleischmann (1892-1944)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, Holocaust, Pozsony, Pressburg, Second World War, Slovakia on 19 May 2013 by delclem
Strong Central European women making history: the case of an inhabitant of Bratislava/ Pressburg/ Pozsony, Slovakia, who helped saving thousands of Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (My apologies for the bad style/translation.) >full text
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
In memoriam Central Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bratislava, Central Europe, Eric Hobsbawm, Great Britain, Habsburg, history, portrait, railway, Slovakia, Vienna on 15 April 2013 by delclem“Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012), the great historian, travels from his native Vienna to Bratislava (formerly Pressburg). A train journey of a mere 35 miles takes him through a tiny landscape that has seen some of the most turbulent political changes of the century – from the lost world of the Habsburgs to Europe’s newest state, Slovakia. ‘Nationalism is not compatible with the progress of history,’ says Hobsbawm.” video portrait (c) VIMEO, 2012
Spooky Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, floklore, ghost stories, legends, Slovakia on 22 January 2013 by delclem
“This week we are visiting the capital city nearest to Vienna. Bratislava has also been the scene of many mysterious events that have inspired people’s imagination and given rise to scary stories & legends.” >full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, European Capital of Culture, Košice, Slovakia on 19 January 2013 by delclem
Today Košice / Kaschau / Kassa in Slovakia becomes the first city in the country’s history to be a European Capital of Culture (along with Marseille)
>text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Heart Break Hotels in Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Belgium, Germany, hotels, Italy, Netherlands, photography, Slovakia, what's in a name? on 10 January 2013 by delclem
“What do you dream of when you stay at Hotel Kummer (German for ‘heartache’)? Who do you meet at Hotel Verloren (‘lost’)? And does breakfast at the B&B Trauer (‘grief’) leave a special taste in your mouth? Artist Conny Habbel and author Franz Adrian Wenzl went to see the most desperate hotels in Europe.” >Text & photos (album) (c) wieninternational.at 2012
A Venial Sin of History
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1992, 1993, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, dismembration, nation state, Nationalism, Postcommunism, secession, Slovakia on 1 January 2013 by delclem
Districts: Petržalka, Bratislava
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, housing, Petržalka, Slovakia on 1 June 2012 by delclem
“On the right bank of the Danube in district V is Petržalka, which has about 115,000 inhabitants, one quarter of Bratislava’s entire population. Fifty years ago this region was famous for its fruit orchards, forests and rural character. In the 1970s it became the symbol of the city’s growth and today contains the largest prefabricated housing estate in Central Europe.” >text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
Continent of Corruption
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Central Europe, corruption, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, politics, Slovakia on 17 April 2012 by delclem
Bribes as the Lubricant of Neoliberal Central Europe
Let’s be honest: the center of Europe is not just the region of phony Habsburg nostalgia and a shared cuisine. It is also the place where experienced patients hand over a box of chocolates (with a creatively hidden banknote) to the treating doctor and/or the nurse. Continue reading
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