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Viennese (Stereo)Types

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, clichés, Fiaker, Gigerl, Stereotyping, Vienna on 1 June 2013 by delclem

The Fiaker driving his horse-drawn carriage around Hofburg Palace, the café waiter serving a Melange, the local musicians entertaining guests at the local wine taverns (the Heuriger): stereotypical images that come up when you think of Vienna (and that are played on by the Austrian tourism industry). The exhibition Vienna Types – Cliché and Reality at the WienMuseum explains why, as it traces the stereotypoes back to the social history of the city. >full text
(c) wieninternational.at 2013 >German version

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“Yellow Street”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Elias Canetti, exile, Great Britain, Literature, London, portrait, Veza Canetti, Vienna, Yellow Street on 30 May 2013 by delclem

“Mean husbands, despairing servant girls, lecherous café owners and a snapping dog: these are just some of the protagonists who breathe life into the novel “Yellow Street”(1990) by Veza Canetti (1897-1963).” >text & photo album
(c) wieninternational.at 2013

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Performing the impossible

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Biedermeier, female authors, gender, Ida Pfeiffer, travel literature, Vienna, world travel on 9 May 2013 by delclem

Ida 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 →

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The Vienna of 1913

Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Austria, Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Stalin, Tito, Vienna on 20 April 2013 by delclem

A century ago, the city of Vienna played host to Hitler,
Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin.”
>full text with more photos & a map (c) BBC, 2013

>audio file (interview with Charles Emmerson & Dardis McNamee)

(the same facts are also mentioned in the German 1913 book by Florian Illies)

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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

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The “Scandal Concert” is turning 100

Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1913, Arnold Schönberg, Austria, Music, Skandalkonzert, Vienna on 31 March 2013 by delclem

“The Skandalkonzert of March 31, 1913 was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg in the Great Hall of the Musikverein (Vienna Concert Society). “The audience, shocked by the expressionism and experimentalism of the Second Viennese School, began rioting, and the concert was ended prematurely. The fight between a concert organizer and Oscar Straus led to a trial.”

Skandalkonzert 100 (therestisnoise.com)

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“Today’s Jewish Life In Vienna”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, minorities, Vienna on 15 March 2013 by delclem

“A snapshot in time: Vienna Today 2012 documents a thriving community.”
>full text (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013

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Geog Baselitz turning 75 in Vienna

Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, exhibition, Georg Baselitz, Germany, Vienna on 6 February 2013 by delclem

The exhibition Georg Baselitz – Works from 1968 to 2012 is organized by the Essls in their museum in Klosterneuburg near Vienna on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the great German artist, a long-standing friend of the collector couple. Forty-four works by Baselitz from four decades will be shown until 20 May 2013 >museum website

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