The Heavy Metal Music of the 19th century: today was the 200th birthday of Germany’s most controversial composer: RICHARD WAGNER (1813-83).
>text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Archive for the Uncategorized Category
Making history: Gizi Fleischmann (1892-1944)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bratislava, Holocaust, Pozsony, Pressburg, Second World War, Slovakia on 19 May 2013 by delclem
Strong Central European women making history: the case of an inhabitant of Bratislava/ Pressburg/ Pozsony, Slovakia, who helped saving thousands of Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (My apologies for the bad style/translation.) >full text
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
Why DracuLand still stokes British anxieties
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Stereotyping, Dracula, Great Britain, Romania, Eastern Europe, UK, immigrants, migration, Bulgaria on 17 May 2013 by delclem
Past and present attitudes to Romanian and Bulgarian immigration in the UK
>full text & illustration (c) BBC HISTORY, 2013
The Serbian Chetniks & the Jews
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chetniks, history, Holocaust, Jews, Marko Attila Hoare, Muslims, Serbia, World War II on 15 May 2013 by delclem
British historian Marco Attila Hoare explores the ugly sides of World War Two & the Holocaust in the Balkans: the hidden agenda of local nationalism/s. >text (c) KOSOVO-NEWS 2013
Germany obsession with inflation: a myth?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags austerity, cultural history, euro, Europe, Germany, inflation, monetary system on 13 May 2013 by delclem
“Separating historical fact from fiction is a thankless task in Germany but one man is trying to do just that”: Derek Scally. >opinion piece (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Read more »
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 Read more »
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Water Resources Privatized?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, privatization, resources, Switzerland, water supply on 28 April 2013 by delclemAustrian A-hole of the month? “Do you believe water is a basic human right? According to the Nestlé CEO water is a foodstuff that should be privatized, not a human right: Peter Brabeck says that with the global population rising water is not a public right, but a resource that should be managed by businessmen.”
(c) AMERICAN LIVE WIRE, 2013
