“Weit.Way.Land, a cool and witty production combining Schnitzler’s Undiscovered Country and David Lynch’s Lost Highway, which can still be seen at Vienna’s Off Theater through the end of January.”
>MORE (c) wieninternational.at, 2011
Archive for Vienna
Artie Schnitzler meets David Lynch
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, David Lynch, theatre, Vienna on 29 November 2011 by delclemR.I.P. Austrian comedian (1922-2011)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, comedian, Georg Kreisler, New York, song, Vienna on 24 November 2011 by delclem“Georg(e) Kreisler, one of Austria’s most prolific satirists & comedians, has died. Continue reading
Oskar Kokoschka & his doll
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alma Mahler, Austria, doll, fetishism, Oskar Kokoschka, Vienna on 17 November 2011 by delclem
After his breakup with Alma Mahler, Kokoschka, in deepest desperation, ordered a life-size doll from a doll-maker in Munich which should resemble Alma in every detail, and he thought it would help him console himself for the loss of his loved one. Not surprisingly, the result was disappointing: a clumsy construction of fabric and wood-wool, which Kokoschka had beheaded at a wild, orgiastic party in his atelier in Dresden, in 1919. And so he separated himself from the curse of his life, Alma, in effigy form.
Cronenberg & Mortensen do Freud
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, C. G. Jung, Canada, David Cronenberg, Fin-de-siècle, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna, Viggo Mortensen on 7 November 2011 by delclemViggo Mortensen replaced Christoph Waltz when it came to play Sigmund Freud in David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method (2011)
> Article on “Freuds movie treatments”.
Freud’s Cocaine Years
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, London, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 24 July 2011 by delclem
> On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.” < . READ MORE >
PS. On 20 July 2011, Freud´s grandson Lucian, a prominent British painter,
died at the age of 88 > OBITUARY > SLIDESHOW
Centenary of Mahler’s death
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Mahler, Music, Vienna on 18 May 2011 by delclem
Vienna (quote)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, film, Literature, Vienna on 11 April 2011 by delclem
“Vienna. The city that will become your coffin. It is not a city of good taste. Not of peace either, nor of animated contentment, as it tries to simulate. Vienna is telling lies with its facades and its people, it is full of lively demons of the past…”
IGOR ŠTIKS, Die Archive der Nacht, Berlin 2009, p. 19 (transl. mine)
Special bonus track: “Vienna, only you…”?
Viennese Blood & Brood
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bratislava, Central Europe, FPÖ, Muslims, Racism, Right populism, Slovakia, Vienna 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.
delirium clemens 