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a warm welcome

vie_heinrich — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:58:44 +0000

can one call that a life? never to see a city and it’s inhabitants. just see man in black around you, bulletproof limos and empty scenery…

the things you see as the president of the USA are never real, never what they seem.
let’s give that guy a warm welcome, a broad base of viennese activists thought. among them - just to mention a view - are: the muslim youth, the socialist youth, the communist party, the women in black, the forum palestine, a jewish peace organisation, the greens, the union and Cindy Sheehan, the peace-mom herself.

those people agreed on the slogan: peace, democracy and social fairness
friends of the schwarzes cafe (and people who wanna join me) meet @ schwarzes cafe in blechardgasse (U4 landstraße) @ 16:30.

the official meeting point is:
westbahnhof @ 21st of may, 17:00

cu, hh

why not mozart?

vie_heinrich — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:39:57 +0000

can vienna.metblogs.com be the only viennese media not mentioning Mozart in 2006?
I guess it’s simply impossible not to have Mozart in 2006. and then again it’s for a good purpose.
Klaus Maria Brandauer (known as the james-bond-evil-guy) reads Josef Nepomuk Bullinges texts about Mozart leaving Salzburg.

the performance takes place on the 30th of april in Schauspielhaus @ 11 am.

the net profit will be donated to SOS Menschenrechte who use it to finance psychological advise for female asylum seekers.

a plan comes together

vie_heinrich — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:39:34 +0000

do you know about improvised theatre? emerging from Augusto Boal’s mainly political ideas, impro theatre became a modern, funny and innovative way to make theatre. imagine some people on the stage, who have to improvise a scene while the audience and some “MC” tell them what to do. from being given the task to the start of the scene the actors have about… three seconds time to think of something. sounds funny? yes it does! some consider improvised theater as the most funny and interesting idea in modern theatre.
and vienna is a good place for impro fans. the international festival moment, that was founded by Theater im Bahnhof (graz) annualy takes place in vienna.
if there’s two groups of actors who get the same (or similar) tasks and compete for the audience’s favour we talk about theatre sports
but now there’s something new. the first theatre sports world cup will take place in germany from 26.6.2006 to 7.7.2006 within the scope of the german football world cup.
vienna now does the kick off. a national team - called the A Team was founded.
it consits of Jim Libby, Charlotte Kaunzner and Rupert Lehofer.
as a preparation for them, there will be three friendly battles against former winners of the austrian theatre sports award.
on the 26th of march the a team fights the Vianna English Lovers, the group of Jim Libby.
on 23th of april they fight Tatwort of munich and on 21th of may Theater im Bahnhof of Graz who won the last european championship.

did you taste blood? the website of urtheater is a good starting point to get into vienna’s impro scene. there are shows on a regular basis!

ping, 40!

vie_heinrich — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:10:02 +0000

yet another city has joined the network.
say hello to mumbai!
for those of you who don’t know (that was including me 20 secs ago) it’s the new name for the town formerly known as bombay.

reality bites

vie_heinrich — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:19:20 +0000

sometimes life is so stereotype …
the chimney sweeper just visited me to wish me a happy new year.

guten TAG

vie_heinrich — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:21:02 +0000

are you one of those guys and gals who thought the austrian theater reform was no good at all? basically I think you’re right. many of the small and some of the innovative playhouses of vienna had to close. they simply didn’t receive any subsidy anymore.
but here comes the good news. dasTAG opens it’s doors in january. 3 small and indeed innovative groups were given the old gruppe 80 building in vienna’s gumpendorferstra

presents to the metblog network

vie_heinrich — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:49:32 +0000

there’s presents for the metbog network and it’s readers.
enjoy the new blogs covering singapore and paris.
that makes 39!
folks in non-metblog-cities on this planet: get your arse up and make them 40!

vie_heinrich — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:21:57 +0000

the text says:
the indians couldn’t stop the immigrants. now they live in reservations. -hence: austrians first
again there is a xenophobe poster. this time by the freedom pary’s youth organisation. this may encourage some readers who think this is a leftist blog :). but IMHO the racist election campaign conducted by HC Strache and his young friends is worth documenting.
(thx to hasin for sending me that image)

this is propaganda

vie_heinrich — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:06:35 +0000

du you study? can you imagine blogging as a task for university?
currently I’m attending some journalistic lectures, I have to do good old homework for.
some of those texts will decay in my drawers, other will be viewable here.
the first one is about Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda movie “Triumpf des Willens” (triumph of will), she did for the nazis.
the bad news for english readers is: it’s in german only

1934 gab Joseph Goebbels, propagandaminister des dritten reiches den film “Kolberg” in auftrag, an dem 3 mal so viele menschen mitwirkten, als den fertigen film letztendlich sahen.
dieses schicksal hat Leni Riefnstahls “Tiumph des Willens” nicht ereilt, obwohl die anzahl der statisten berauschend ist. der film gilt als prominentestes st

styria turns left

vie_heinrich — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:22:37 +0000

I know what I’m talking about took place in styria (some austrian federal state) and not here in vienna, plus it happened some days ago.
nevertheless a political change of this impact is worth covering.

to name it: austrias conservatives lost power in another federal state.
that means the social democrats and the conservative party both govern 4 of austria’s 9 federal states.
due to several scandals involving the energy company estag and intransparent financial promotion of the noble Herberstein family, it was more or less clear head of local government, Waltraud Klasnic would loose the vote. (and yes, she insisted on the male form of the title, tough it does not work out in english)
as the