Susan Milford and Barbara Schmied-Länger, two experts on Eastern Europe, came up with the unusual idea of looking at the theme of expansion from a different viewpoint. The outcome is the cookery book "Europas unbekannte Küche". A culinary journey through (still) unfamiliar terrain.
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The young Marcel Ihnačák is at present the hottest chef in Slovakia. He saw “his first seafood” in a Prague restaurant. Later he went to London to do an apprenticeship with British star cook Jamie Oliver. At the restaurant Liviano in Bratislava he spoils his guests not with local fare, but with Tuscan cuisine, something that still seems somewhat exotic for the Slovaks.
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There are some days in your life when you have the feeling that you are at the right place at the right time. 23 October 2006 was one of those days and the city of Budapest was the place.
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Svatopluk Karasek, who was born in Prague in 1942, was a Protestant pastor before he joined the wild Underground movement in the early 1970s and started to preach rock. He was forbidden to practice his profession, imprisoned and subsequently he emigrated to Switzerland. He has lived again in Prague for some time now and since 2004 has been the human rights commissioner of the Czech government. An interview with a wanderer between different worlds.
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An (artists) review of the contemporary production of art in Eastern Europe.
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The Socland Foundation had invited the citizens of Warsaw to come there on that day and to donate exhibits for the future Museum of Communism to be housed in the cellars of the palace...
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A period of European history reached its conclusion in 1989: communism. The formerly communist and socialist countries each experienced this epoch in different ways and thus also produced very divergent cultural and art scenes.
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The Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski about his recently published book “Avant-gardes in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1989".
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The musician and artist Andres Löo is one of the most important representatives of the young Estonian scene. In this interview he speaks about Western misunderstandings regarding Estonia, the spirit of optimism in his native country at the start of the nineties, and his search for the ur-sound.
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Tales of unfulfilled dreams in the far north of Russia.
A portrait of the artproduction and artists in Murmansk.
By Seva Dymodel, Kirill Junolainen and Sergey Mombus.
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For a period of four months ending in September 2006, an undeveloped part of the Donaucity stood under the theatre moon of theatercombinat and its guests.
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Neither communism nor modernisation have made any lasting impression on the stubborn people of Maramures County, a Romanian district in the region of Transylvania.
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Jeremy Rifkin, the US economist, political consultant and author of the book “The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream” talks about the problems, the hopes and the opportunity of taking Europe towards a future political model. Manuela Hötzl talked with this fan of Europe.
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The historian and journalist Karl Schlögel is a traveller, observer and storyteller who perceives processes of change and reinterprets them unusually in a manner that is more essayistic than academic.
The Berlin journalist Bert Rebhandl talked with Karl Schlögel in the following interview.
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After the rejection of the draft European constitution in France and the Netherlands, a kind of helplessness and perplexity reign in Europe. Erhard Busek, EU coordinator for southeast Europe and President of the European Forum Alpbach, sees in this crisis the long needed inducement to ask the question: "whether Europe wants itself". Economics journalist Michael Prüller talked to the former head of the ÖVP and former economics minister.
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A female pop icon's Euro-vision of Ruslana Lyzhichko, after the Orange Revolution. In this interview with Eduard Steiner given exclusively for "Report" she tells about the times before the change, the present atmosphere in the country and the Europe-euphoria of Ukrainian youth.
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Andrea Zlatar, specialist in literary studies and essayist, was town councillor with responsibility for cultural matters in Zagreb from 2001 to summer 2005. Dea Vidović spoke to her about politicians' ability to learn and the possibilities of partnerships in the so-called "independent cultural scene".
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Abou new urban planning: The city today in its new constellation as an urban region in a globalized world produces an enormous challenge for all actors in the field and notably for architects.
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An exhibition about saving as a part of everyday life in Austria, held in the Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, in cooperation with the DIE ERSTE Österreichische Spar - Casse Privatstiftung
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Of passionate collectors in modern Russia and the former USSR. An associative collage of observations by the Lithuanian composer, psychotherapist and collector Richardas Norvila.
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Boris Buden, the author of the book "Der Schacht von Babel – Ist Kultur übersetzbar" (The Pit of Babel – is Culture Translatable?) , which appeared in autumn 2004, explains why he finds the belief in a new cultural identity naive and why society should not confuse politics with culture. Buden speaks of Europe as a translation community. An interview with Manuela Hötzl.
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The Swiss approach to financing culture in the European context, or: what kind of impact, if any, does the Swiss method of culture financing have on the cultural life of Central and Southeast Europe?
A commentary by Sibylle Birrer
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Classic texts of post-modernism in Czech, lectures and workshops in Slovakia, discussions about nowadays in Vienna next year.
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We introduce the people who devised this trans-disciplinary subsidy programme and those who organize and curate it.
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In tranzit to Vindicate Contemporary Art. A Comment by Vladan Šír
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Platforma 9,81 and MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE, two NGOs from Zagreb, in conversation with Boris Groys about social and cultural changes in Europe.
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The contemporary art platform tranzit has been dedicated to forging art and culture networks between East and West since 2002. But who are the persons at the bottom of tranzit? Here we present a portrait of the curator Vít Havránek.
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Europeanization and the search for identity – an interview with the ethnologist Bernhard Tschofen
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První dekáda // The First Decade // May 25 – 28, 2006
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