ORF-Zu einem Brandanschlag im Rotlichtmilieu ist es Mittwochfrüh in Graz gekommen: Unbekannte Täter schleuderten zwei Molotowcocktails gegen ein Lokal. Einer der Brandsätze entzündete sich und beschädigte die Hausfassade. Fünf Personen befanden sich laut Polizei in dem Lokal nahe dem Hauptbahnhof, in dem “Gesellschaftsdamen” vermittelt werden, als es kurz nach 1.00 Uhr krachte. Unbekannte Täter hatten [...]
Galina Toktalieva for Die Wiener Nachrichten (excerpt) Graz was the very place, where my emigration trial by water and fire started. It was southern-looking fair town with medieval architecture, in strange way reminding me of sunny Bishkek streets. It was love at first sight. Graz struck me as prettiest place I ever knew. However, to [...]
I do not know where my motherland is, and to what nationality I belong. When I caught a glimpse of green Steiermark colors at Rathauspaltz of Vienna, where traditional national festivity took place, my heart gave a leap. I had feeling that after long journey I had come back home. I could again smell aroma [...]
With my first old Nikon hidden under the jacket that made me look at least 6 month pregnant. I crept in one of multistoried houses (Laufhaeuse) where prostitutes rented working rooms. Though houses looked shabby outside, wooden panels, leather arm chairs and thick carpets preserved air of pomposity inside. Every girl had big poster with [...]
Our attachments is the source of our problems. You are attached when you think your life would be impossible without what you are crazy about. Ten years ago, I was standing in the long line behind the doors of British embassy in Moscow with supreme trepidation and wish to see London where I had never [...]
