Coincidences

something quite amazing happened to me on saturday. we were walking down landstraße in linz. it was cold and it rained. fine drops and, occasionally, a snowflake or two. with every step i just wanted to be away, somewhere warm and drink a cup of tea. and then i saw... [Read More]

Letters never sent

i was going over some stuff i wrote a few years ago – a couple of letters i thought about sending. one of them to paul auster and the other to eva hoffman. i do not really know why i wrote them any more. it certainly must have been the... [Read More]

Mucha and Don Carlos

on sunday, a cold and windy day, we took refuge in the colorful and playful exhibition in the lower belvedere –  alphonse mucha. [Read More]
Tags: culture

The more I write...

… the more i learn. trying to do it the right way (rich text and all) the act of writing a blog brings along another labor intensive activity – searching for references, reading deeper into the articles, looking for correspondences, jumping from one story to the next, etc. etc. if... [Read More]
Tags: scribbles

Barlach & Kollwitz

in a jiffy, elbowing my way around the sculptures, i managed to see yesterday’s opening at leopold museum. at the beginning i took refuge in the small theater which was almost empty and saw there a documentary on ernst barlach. and then had to fight my way through the masses... [Read More]
Tags: art culture