Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money. If to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich. It seems there is no sphere of [...]
Banality often contains concentration wisdom of folks. They say, it is not shameful to be poor. Poorest can obtain social security benefits. What is poverty in Austria, how it looks, tastes and smells? Apart from concept, I wanted to know this as personal experience. Being granted with work after five years of survival training in [...]
Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria’s primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area), it is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It [...]
Großeinsatz der Polizei bei Kurden-Demo in Wien Rund 1.500 Kurden hatten an der Samstagsdemo gegen die Türkei teilgenommen Zwischen Türken und Kurden herrscht wieder einmal dicke Luft: Zunächst wurde Kurdenführer Abdullah Öcalan in einem türkischen Gefängnis – je nach Lesart – gefoltert oder durchsucht. Dazu kommt es immer wieder zu gewalttätigen Zwischenfällen und Festnahmen wegen [...]
Morning post brought newsletter from Vienna communist party with protest against demonstrative and exposure of corn-flowers in suit lapels by FPÖ members, pointing out to the fact that corn-flower was symbol popular among national-socialists in 1938. The demonstration of Nazi symbols is forbidden in Austria, so I can justify my public sexual arousal about Strache [...]
Former Vienna Mayor Helmut Zilk, who lost part of his hand to a letter bomb in 1993, died. He was 81. In December 1993, Zilk’s was severely injured when he opened a letter bomb sent to his home in Vienna by terrorist Franz Fuchs. Franz Fuchs (1949-2000) was a xenophobic Austrian terrorist. Between 1993 and [...]