As a contrast to the last post, these are the two most important political moments of the post-war period. Firstly, the Christmas 1945 address by the People’s Party Chancellor, Figl. The translation is as follows: Christmas 1945. The Second World …
Let’s just get it out of the way now shall we?
Three days to go to the elections in Austria, so here’s the first of a series of posts to bring you the best of Austria and German language culture. We’ll start with the phenomenal Otto Walkes. Even if your German …
Until at least next Spring… The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. The incident on 19 September caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the …
We can do cute…
Two days ago I was sat in a coffee house in the middle of Austria, reading the Sunday papers as they did their best to present an analysis of what the country could expect in its final week of electioneering. …