Report Archive

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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2004-2009 Focus: Music

Women’s Discos, Gays and Punk – The Underground in Lubljana in the 1980s

An interview with Aldo Ivančić. In the 1980s, the cultural scene in Ljubljana was vibrating like never before: weird art actions, wild punk concerts and crazy lesbian and gay get-togethers were characteristic of the underground scene in the Slovenian capital, which is only about the size of Graz.

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“What else should we do during the cold polar nights except make music?”

Russian artist Anna Ceeh and the Austrian sound artist Franz Pomassl about the “rest of the world” beyond the Urals, music making in the turbo-capitalist regions and why laptop music is not the last word on the subject.

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"Does the Electronic Scene in Riga differ from other Scenes in Europe?"

Austrian music and culture journalist Ursula Maria Probst spoke in Vienna to producer Rostislav Rekuta, electronic musician Evgeniy Droomoff and singer Tonya Pilugina about the cultural scene in Riga.

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"Is there anyone here who, like, knows about music, say someone from the independent scene?"

For five years now the Prague and New York-based culture organisation, Tamizdat has been making a name for itself as a kind of central switchboard for labels, bands and distributors from the so-called Eastern European reform countries. What started off in 1999 as a non-profit making project has turned out to be so eminently suitable for development that one or two investors could potentially make a small fortune out of it.

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“Pop culture is like the Bible: hardly anyone has read it but everyone knows the quotations from it.”

Ukraine seems to be a country where literature thrives. So far Ukrainian star authors such as Juri Andruchovych, Andrey Kurkov, Ljubko Deresch and Oksana Sabushko have celebrated major international successes. Recently a further young talent has become a focus of attention – especially in German-speaking Europe: Serhij Zhadan.

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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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