“I was a young Jewish woman dating an older man, but I couldn’t escape Vienna’s dark history, or my fears about his.” The following is adapted from “Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour,” Rachel Shukert’s just-published memoir of traveling and living in Europe in her very early 20s. This excerpt takes place in Vienna, in the summer of 2003. >full text & illustration (c) SALON, 2014
PS. Why are these bitter sweet & slightly kitschy stories – a sort of Nazi romance/porn – so highly in demand in the English-speaking world?
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“My romance in a town haunted by its Nazi past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Jewish identity, love, National Socialism, Nazi past, romance, travel literature, Vienna on 21 January 2014 by delclemPerforming the impossible
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Biedermeier, female authors, gender, Ida Pfeiffer, travel literature, Vienna, world travel on 9 May 2013 by delclemIda Pfeiffer (1797-1858) “was a Viennese women of the Biedermeier era with one dream: she wanted to travel. In the nineteenth century it was impossible for women to fulfil this wish. So she made it her life to perform the impossible.”
>full text (c) wieninternational.at 2013
Below: Ms Pfeiffer in travel gear; lithography by Adolf Dauthage; photo: wikipedia Continue reading →

