Brecht and Lenya In the famous photo of Brecht, you can almost smell the tattered stogie. He’s is a dead ringer for Groucho, but without the pasted-on brows and mustache – and the sly humor. Besides having an aversion to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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Doing the Assassin in My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment, which was adjacent to ours in our house in Rueppgasse. I witnessed the ransacking of my ransacking my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse by SA-marauders. I was three[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
On January 9, 2016, our friend and colleague, the artist Padhi Frieberge became immortal. He was 85 years old. Fritz Kleibel eulogized him in his film Padhiland and I have written on his life and work. We are both admirers[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Violence under the Guise of Art On July 30, 1998 a TV interview with Hermann Nitsch was broadcast. On August 4th the following letter to the editor was published in the Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s largest-selling tabloid. The author is Lore[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Gerhard Rühm. 4.10.2017 – 28.1.2018. Das Kunstforum Wien zeigt mit Gerhard Rühm im Herbst 2017 einen der letzten Universalkünstler. Als Komponist, Pianist, Performer, Literat und bildender Künstler war der 1930 in Wien geborene und heute in Köln lebende Gerhard Rühm ein Grenzgänger zwischen den einzelnen … Oswald Wiener:[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …