Archive for Slovakia

New life for factories

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 16 February 2012 by delclem

The Slovak capital Bratislava has a rich industrial legacy. Abandoned tobacco factories, water storage tanks, gasworks and railway stations, some of which are over a hundred years old, are prominent features of the urban landscape. Because of the city’s rapid development, these gigantic sites, which used to be on the outskirts, are now gradually being incorporated into the city and are thus attracting the attention of real estate developers” – and museum projects…

>article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012

 

k. & k. Manhunter

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 29 December 2011 by delclem

Set in a world that has faded from living memory, The Sojourn by the Slovak American author Andrew Krivak is a searing coming-of-age story about a sniper in the Austrian Army on the Italian front in the First World War.
Review
(c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2011.

 

Socialist architecture in Bratislava

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 15 November 2011 by delclem

Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2011

Strange love for bunkers

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 16 September 2011 by delclem

“Petržalka, the largest district in the Slovak capital Bratislava / Pozsony / Pressburg, is most well known for the apartment blocks of its vast public housing projects. Few of the over 100,000 inhabitants know about the silent witnesses to the (Czechoslovak) past nearby, often hidden in the undergrowth.”

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Viennese Blood & Brood

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 4 October 2010 by delclem


The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) took the liberty of placing an overtly racist poster in Vienna for the City Council elections on 10 October, bearing the slogan: Mehr Mut für unser Wiener Blut (‘More courage for our Viennese Blood’). This is in many ways instructive for hopeless cultural analysts like me who are interested in vampirism as well.

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