Report Archive

Kontakt Report 2004-2009
20 YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF THE WALL
5 YEARS OF “REPORT”
5 YEARS OF EU EXPANSION IN THE EAST

5 years of interviews, conversations, statements, essays and stories regarding relevant cultural and socio-political topics in Central- and Eastern Europe.

Literature: The Stolen Years

The Romanian writer Mircea Cărtăresc talks about the years of transition in his country

Art and Culture: Not just a single History of Art

How have the culture scenes in the former East Bloc and in the countries that once made up Yugoslavia developed since 1989? A summary by Eastern
Europe experts Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer

Food: "Eating is something political"

With Barbara Maier, cultural and scientific mediator, and publisher and author Lojze Wieser, Antje Mayer undertook a culinary voyage of discovery

Europe: “It is only About your Dream”

Manuela Hötzl talked with Jeremy Rifkin, US economist, political consultant and fan of Europe

Media: What should I be afraid of ?

In an interview with Eduard Steiner Jewgenija Albaz offers insights into the everyday world of a journalist in an authoritarian state, in which human rights are of little account

Social issues: Forces in grey areas

Barbara Tóth in conversation with migration researcher Michael Jandl about a sensitive topic: migration and illegal employment

Language: "Reinventing the revolution"

Philosopher Boris Buden in conversation with Manuela Hötzl about Europe as a translation community

Europe is not a weak figure

Bert Rebhandl in conversation with sociologist Hartmut Kälble

Europe has miscalculated

The Russian political journalist Fyodor conversation with Eduard Steiner

"In terms of democratic politics we have gone backwards by about 15 years"

Slovenia: Journalist Blaž Zgaga on the media’s situation in his country

Statements “best of”
Topics: Media, Food, Europe, Social issues and Language.

"At me there is something ..."

This series of images taken by Viennese photographer Wolf-Dieter Grabner for “Report”shows everyday Soviet objects that the Russian Ella Opalnaja collected over a period of decades. In summer 2009 they were publicly presented for the first time in the framework of a thesis project by Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The man who gave second chances

In official Chechnya people who think differently are extremely rare. One last of them has died: Buvadi Dachijev.
This article from September 21, 2006 is the last that Anna Politkovskaya († October 7, 2006) published in the ­russian newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. She was murdered on October 7 in her apartment building.

Recalling the taste - four culinary reminiscences

“Foreigner” Syndrome?
What does integration actually mean?

2005: Ten new countries in the EU!
Does anything change?

Viennale 2009

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / 22 October - 4 November 2009

Publication: spike ART GUIDE EAST

The best places for art, eat, party and sleep in Central and Eastern Europe