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Looking up can be very stimulating when the clouds pile up into idiosyncratic shapes over the horizon. The music of the local duo Gazelle & the Bear is special and complex, which is why Ines Kolleritsch and Julian Berann appropriately named their debut “Weird Shaped Clouds”. Pop, jazz and soul merge here to create a […]
World Poetry Day, declared by UNESCO, is celebrated on Sunday (March 21). On this occasion, ten poetry experts in Germany (including the Austrian Germanist Daniela Strigl) selected 20 volumes of poetry from the new publications of the past year, which they find enthusiastic and particularly recommendable. The volumes are presented in short video readings on […]
About a return to a gas station and a suspicious pull in the chest. Flieher’s Journal Bernhard Flieher “Love is the drug”, sings Bryan Ferry and goes “late night” to the bar, where he then conquers the dance floor “face to face, toe to toe, heart to heart”. That was 46 years ago. There is […]
Cultural journalist and literary expert Anton Thuswaldner has put together his book recommendations for the weekend for SN readers. SN / apa (dpa) The week’s SN reading recommendations. Joachim Sartorius: Where to put your eyes The south has done it to him. Sicily, Egypt, Madagascar, even the cat he sings about comes from eastern Turkey. […]
The first film screening took place in Vienna on March 20, 1896. 125 years later, the Filmarchiv Austria is celebrating digitally. SN / filmarchiv austria Film projector made by the Lumière brothers in 1897. The astonishment of the reporter, whom the “Illustrirte Wiener Extrablatt” had sent to the very first film screening in Vienna on […]
A magnificent bird was too good-natured when traveling Europeans began to take an interest in it. SN / nhm Reconstruction of a dodo in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. The dodo was one of the first beings to suffer as a traveler. It is reported that he was good-natured and even approached people because […]
Ingo Schulze receives this year’s “Prize of the Literature Houses”, which is awarded annually by the network of German-language literature houses. Schulze succeeds Marlene Streeruwitz, who was happy about the award last year. The award has been given to authors since 2002 for “outstanding text quality in connection with remarkable appearances”. The award is linked […]
The Komödienspiele Porcia want to catch up on their 60th anniversary after a mobile summer. SN / comedy games porcia / marco riebler President Andrea Samonigg-Mahrer (left) and artistic director Angelica Ladurner hope for regular comedy plays in summer 2021. “A smaller ensemble would be absolutely necessary. But what need needs to be addressed?” Asks […]
The planned focus on Austria at the Leipzig Book Fair 2022 will be extended to 2023. This was announced jointly by the State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer (Greens), the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade and the trade fair management on Friday. The decision was immediately welcomed by IG Authors. Austria’s […]
“Laugh and Die” is the name of the new book by Franz Schuh. The title has “nothing to do with the coronavirus”, the author asserts, “and it is even true that the virus does not fit my concept at all”. It is also true that Schuh, who celebrated his 74th birthday a few days ago, […]