Occupied! is the current motto at the Wien Museum. A new exhibition explores the struggle for free spaces in the city. Between the “Happening of 100 Days“ in 1976 and the eviction of squatters from “Epizentrum Lindengasse” in 2011 Vienna has seen some turbulent times. Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
An art exhibition at the MUSA in Vienna tries to challenge our daily obsession
with bodily “beauty” > full text (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, most probably Austria’s most famous composer ever, is famous all over the world. Equally well-known is the fact that he often experienced financial difficulties. It would be incorrect, however, to assume that his debts were solely the result of his extravagant lifestyle. The temporary exhibition ‘Between Fear and Hope – Mozart’s rise and fall in Viennese society’ in the historic Mozarthaus in the first district shows how his career was not all a bed of roses.”
>article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
“The 21er Haus, a museum which opened in Vienna last November, is dedicating its second exhibition to the utopia of the “total work of art”; this aims at inspiring discourse.” Article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012
“The book Balkanmeile – 24 Stunden Ottakringer Strasse offers a portrait of a street of Vienna that has attracted attention over the last few years on account of its migrant inhabitants. Review (c) wienintenational.at, 2012
“Star detective Sherlock Holmes undergoing psychoanalysis, James Bond in a fever of romance, and an original imperial crown as a prop. All of this is possible in Vienna. In their guidebook with a difference entitled Drehort Wien, German journalist Achim Zeilmann and his co-author Roland Weixlgartner take a cinema tour of Vienna highlighting twenty-six films that have been shot there.”
Article & photo (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
The Austrian-born American diva Hedy Lamarr “was feted for her beauty — but she also had a talent for inventions, including elements of today’s GPS.”
Article by Peter Conradi (c) THE SUNDAY TIMES, 2011
delirium clemens 