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Report, the magazine for the arts and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, appeared in printed form from 2004 to 2009 ten times, in both English and German. Alongside interviews, portraits, statements and reports on social and political themes, the magazine provided information about events currently planned by tranzit and Kontakt. Each issue of was specially designed by visual artists.

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Online Issue August 2007 Focus: Kultursommer / Summer of culture

Music: the best of the summer

A false novel or other confrontations on hot days
Our author Sebastian Fasthuber has had a listen around for "Report" and has compiled a highly personal and subjective selection of music CDs, music festivals, concerts, and books, for summer 2007. All his tips have something to do with Central and Eastern Europe. The author (who lives in Vienna) says that for an encounter with the "musical East in a summer-time mood" it isn't necessary to travel far.

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Sounds from an intermediate realm

Austrian composer and trumpeter Franz Koglmann recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday. His most recent work "Nächtliche Spaziergänge" (Night-time strolls) which he composed for the Romanian European capital of culture 2007 Sibui, which also includes events held in the months of July and August, refers to both Joseph Haydn and the Romanian philosopher Émil Cioran. A portrait of someone who traverses musical boundaries.

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Film: The Best of the Summer
Let’s Go Kino!

Our guest author Maya McKechneay is an enthusiastic cineaste and during the warm months of the year likes to travel to various film festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. The best tips from a real insider.

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Theatre: The Best of the Summer.
Riga – Belgrade and back

The summer recess in the theatres and concert halls of this world is a relict from days gone by. It seems to have been forgotten that the warm months of the year once served to undertake a kind of "cultural retreat". Our author and theatre expert Karin Cerny finds this something of a pity. But she has to concede that there have always been good reasons during the summer to attend a number of theatre, dance and performance festivals, above all those with central and Eastern European productions. And of course, in autumn, the start of the season, things really start to hum.

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Art: The Best of the Summer. No summer-time doldrums in the south, south-east

The rumour of the "silly-season" that is supposed to take over during the summer months is a persistent one. Our author Nina Schedlmayer finds that as far as far the visual arts are concerned it can be disproved. In addition to the mega-events of this year – various biennales as well as the "Documenta 12" in Kassel – she has also found a considerable number of less gigantic but none the less exciting projects.

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Slobodan Mihajlović : "I am a nomad between East and West"

The young Serbian fashion designer Slobodan Mihajlović is the winner of the "Kontakt.Fashion Award 2007".

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Film-Tip: "KONTAKT“ - A movie by Sergej Stanojkovski

Starting 29 June in Austrian cinemas!

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Summer-Tip: Vienna Children´s University

At Vienna Children’s University more than 3,600 children are turning the university upside down.

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Book-Tip: "Moments of Romanian Architecture from the 19th Century to the Present"

A catalogue on architecture in Romania, containing the presentation of the architectural production from beginning of 19. century to the last decades until today.

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