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10 festival for fashion & photography

Vom 7. bis 17. Juni 2010 findet das Festival an verschiedenen Orten in ganz Wien statt.

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Book + gift tip: “ARTISTA”

A novel between social report and literature tells touching stories about social fringe areas. It is the first novel of the Hungarian writer Kriszta Bódis translated into German.

| 2010-11
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The “Kontakt Fashion Award by Erste Bank 2010” will be awarded to the Hungarian label use.unused.

It is now for the fifth time that Erste Bank awards the “Kontakt Fashion Award by Erste Bank” to outstanding designers from Central and Eastern Europe in the framework of its partnership with the “festival for fashion & photography”.

| 2010-06
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“Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind” at Children's Theatre Vienna

Performances from September 7 to 19

| 2010-09
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KINO WIE NOCH NIE – von 1. Juli bis 22. August am Augartenspitz

Veranstaltet von Filmarchiv Austria in Kooperation mit VIENNALE

Film / Photography | | 2010-06
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KINO WIE NOCH NIE - July 1 – August 22, 2010

Open Air at Augartenspitz

| 2010-06
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The Swiss artist Christoph Büchel in memoriam sex scandal Beethoven Frieze

– a successful revival owing to a co-operative public

| 2010-03
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Secession: LARA ALMARCEGUI

Construction Rubble of Secession's Main Hall, Lara Almarcegui takes stock of the construction materials used to build the main hall of the exhibition building by heaping up piles of these materials.
Exhibition: September 10 - November 7

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The sculptor Manfred Pernice
as of November 26 at Secession

Manfred Pernice is one of the most important contemporary sculptors. “An exact observer of the urban environment, whose keen eye doesn’t miss any architectural aberration”. (art Magazine).

| 2010-11
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In December ULNOE welcomes its 100th guest: the Hungarian writer Kriszta Bódis

Sunday Matinée with readings by Beatrix M. Kramlovsky (A), Richard Reich (CH) and Kriszta Bódis (H) on December 12 at Literaturhaus Krems.

| 2010-11
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2010

Vienna under the sign of design: October 1 to 10

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VIENNAFAIR: 06th to 09th of May 2010

The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on Central Eastern Europe

| 2010-03
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List of galleries: VIENNAFAIR 2010

Focused on Central and Eastern Europe

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“springerin” at the VIENNAFAIR

On occasion of the VIENNAFAIR, the art magazine “springerin” is publishing a supplement exclusively available for visitors of the fair.

| 2010-05
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VIENNAFAIR - Tip: “Something you should know: Manifesta 8”.

Erste Bank and the foundation ERSTE Stiftung will present the discussion about “manifesta 8” in the departure lounge at the VIENNAFAIR 2010.

| 2010-04
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VIENNALE 2010

October 21 - November 3

Film / Photography | | 2010-08
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MoreVIENNALE

The AddedVALUE sponsoring program of Erste Group

October 21 to November 3
MoreTICKETS HERE

| 2010-10
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Wien Modern 2010

The festival of contemporary music
October 29 to November 20

MoreFREETICKETS HERE!

| 2010-09
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Tip: WIEN MODERN in conversation

Lothar Knessl invites for panel discussions.

| 2010-11
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CD: BERNHARD LANG - The Stars of Hunger

Bernhard Lang received the Erste Group Composition Commission in 2009. The CD was now released by Kairos.

Music | | 2010-10
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ERSTE GROUP COMPOSITION COMMISSION 2010

Joanna Wozny's new piece “as in a mirror darkly” was first performed on November 18 in the framework of “Wien Modern” 2010.

Music | | 2010-10
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Moneten, Kies, Kröten

A hands-on exhibition on the topic of money – starting September 30 at ZOOM Kindermuseum

Education | | 2010-08
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Makart. Painter of the senses - until October 9, 2011, Unteres Belvedere.

Like no other artist of the 19th century, Hans Makart influenced a whole era, rising to become its symbol so that it went down in history as “Makart-Time”. The Belvedere in co-operation with Wien Museum dedicates an extensive exhibition which deals with the Makart myth to this exceptional artist.

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Exhibition: “polis – pollis – politics”

An exhibition at the art association “das weisse haus” (Feb 16 – March 31, 2011) by Betsabeh Aghamiri and Gerald Grestenberger

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JEUNESSE-ABOS zu GEWINNEN

Gewinnen: 1x2 Abos für den Jeunesse-Zyklus „Faszination Musik 1“!

| 2011-04
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Win tickets for the Viennafair!

VIENNAFAIR – The International Contemporary Art Fair FOCUSED ON CEE
takes place from May 12 to 15 at Wiener Messe.

| 2011-04
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VIENNALE LOTTERY

Apart from the festival’s financial support, Erste Bank’s involvement also includes numerous offers from which cinema visitors profit directly. Among other things, Erste Bank provides Viennale tickets at reduced prices for its customers and staff members.

| 2011-10
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VIENNALE LOTTERY

Apart from the festival’s financial support, Erste Bank’s involvement also includes numerous offers from which cinema visitors profit directly. Among other things, Erste Bank provides Viennale tickets at reduced prices for its customers and staff members.

| 2011-11
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CINEMA LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Open Air at Augartenspitz: June 30 to August 14

From June 30 until August 14, KINO WIE NOCH NIE 2011 for the fourth time presents a top-level and intriguing daily open air cinema programme at Augartenspitz, ranging from early comedies over classics of world cinema to current works of recent years. Extraordinary reprises as well as premieres of films not shown in Austria before are also part of the open air programme.

Organised by Filmarchiv Austria in co-operation with Viennale

Film / Photography | | 2011-05
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CINEMA LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Open Air at Augartenspitz
June 30 to August 14

Organised by Filmarchiv Austria in co-operation with Viennale

Film / Photography | | 2011-06
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Secession: Most Beautiful Book 2010

The publication “Atlas. Nicole Six und Paul Petritsch” was awarded the prize for most beautiful book of Austria 2010 in the category “Art and photo books”. Published by Secession

| 2011-02
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Tricky Women Trailer 2011 by Delphine Hermans

The trailer for the 10th Tricky Women anniversary was created by the young Belgian artist Delphine Hermans, winner of the quartier21/MQ Artist in Residence Award by Tricky Women 2009.

Film / Photography | | 2011-02
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LOTTERY
MoreCINEMA: OPENING TRICKY WOMEN 2011

In the framework of the MoreVALUE sponsoring program of Erste Bank we’re raffling off 5x2 tickets for the opening gala on March 10, 8 p.m. at Gartenbaukino.

Please send an e-mail to: sponsoring.kultur@erstegroup.com
Last entries: March 3, 2011

| 2011-02
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TIP: O VERTIGO – Onde de choc

Austrian premiere of the company O VERTIGO on March 4 and 5 at Tanzquartier: In Onde de choc choreographer Ginette Laurin enquires which emotions are connected with the body’s elementary functions, and how they can be made visible and audible.

| 2011-02
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Viennale Trailer 2011 by David Lynch

The Viennale trailers have long been a trademark of the film festival. After filmmakers like Stan Brakhage, Leos Carax, Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch has now realised for Viennale 2011 a cinematographic miniature of about one minute length, titled “The 3 Rs”. A film in which Lynch’s entire abysmal and fantastic cosmos appears condensed in a brief sequence of images and sounds.

| 2011-10
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INVEST IN LIFE! ( “Aktie Leben“)


Hilfswerk Austria International

| 2010-03
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Award for Young Composers

A tip for young musicians

Music | | 2004-10
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Benzo, The Tapes, Laton 2004.

On Benzo’s couch: Therapy sessions fit for theater and clubs

Music | by Heinrich Deisl | 2004-04
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Web: The Hungarian Centre for Music Information

The Budapest Music Centre

Music | | 2004-06
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Booktip:"1956"

the Hungarian Uprising of 1956

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Book Tip: Slovenia

Its history from the beginnings to the present

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Booktip: Literature from Central and Eastern Europe

The third part of the anthology TOP 22 of the Unabhängiges Literaturhaus NÖ

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Caritas: Eastern Europe Campaign / Fresh start for forgotten children

Every year in February Caritas collects for street children and social orphans in Europe's poorest countries. Erste Group supports this campaign as a partner of Caritas.

| 2010-01
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Cd Tip: Trans Slovenia Express Vol. 2

Kraftwerk cover versions by different Slovene musicians

Music | | 2008-02
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“Coffee to help” - Every sip is (doing) good!

Caritas' campaign “Coffee to help” takes place for the third time in 2011. The proceeds benefit children in need in Europe's poorest countries.

| 2010-01
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“Coffee to help” - Every sip is (doing) good!

Caritas' campaign “Coffee to help” takes place for the third time in 2011. The proceeds benefit children in need in Europe's poorest countries.

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CFA - An International Fashion Project

Five renowned European fashion institutions join forces to establish a unique information network, which detects and presents current positions and developments in fashion design. This information network consists of an Internet platform with a digital archive and local documentation centres located at the different institutions of the partners in question.

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REPORT

Exclusively developed by the slovakian artist Roman Ondák

| 2007-11
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Event Tip: Designblok '06

The festival is being held this year for the eighth time and runs from 3 to 8 October in Prague.

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| 2004-11
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2006: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (6 festival for fashion & photography): Olah Gyarfas (RO)

| 2010-03
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2007: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (7 festival for fashion & photography): Slobodan Mihajlović (SRB)

| 2010-03
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2008: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (8 festival for fashion & photography): Jakub Polanka (CZ)

| 2010-03
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2009: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (9 festival for fashion & photography): Tanja Bradaric (HR)

| 2010-03
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2010: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (10 festival for fashion & photography): USE unused (HU)

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2011: Erste Bank Fashion Award

Prize winner (11 festival for fashion & photography): Hana Frišonsová / SUUS (CZ)

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Book: „Fiction Reconstructed" by Marina Gržinić

Eastern Europe, Post-socialism & The Retro-Avant-Garde

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Film Tip: "Corridor #8"

By Boris Despodov, Bulgaria 2008

Film / Photography | | 2008-05
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CD-tip: FOP Album: ''10'' FOP – forms of plasticity

Ten pieces for and about the new member countries of the EU.

Music | | 2005-09
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CD: Gösta Neuwirth, “L’oubli bouilli”

Erste Bank composition commission 2008 – “I define sound from the aspect of structure, not from that of expression.“ (Lothar Knessl)

| 2010-01
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The Dog Eaters from Svinia

Bookreview

Literature / Philosophy | by Antje Mayer | 2004-04
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Fashion – Fabric – Reading Material

Creations by Hussein Chalayan

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INTIMA.ORG (SL)

by Heinrich Deisl | 2004-04
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Book-tip: "Leap into the City"

Chisina, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven Scenes from Europe"

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"Austrians Only"

Project by Andreja Kuluncic

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DVD-Tip: “Neue Welt” (New World)

Travel film by Paul Rosdy

Film / Photography | | 2007-04
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CIMAM’s 2007 Annual Conference

“Museums and Universal Heritage: Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism”

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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.

Education | | 2007-07
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Film-Tip: "KONTAKT“ - A movie by Sergej Stanojkovski

Starting 29 June in Austrian cinemas!

Film / Photography | | 2007-07
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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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tranzit.hu

| 2005-11
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Book-tip: East Art Map

Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

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USA - Video Festival

První dekáda // The First Decade // May 25 – 28, 2006

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“Melodia”

“Melodia” CD compilation compiled and scouted by Sergei Malkin, Anna Ceeh and Franz Pomassl for Laton

Music | | 2006-10
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Booktip: Der Wert des Schöpferischen - Der Erste Bank-Kompositionsauftrag 1989 - 2007

(The value of creativity: The Erste Bank -composition commission 1989–2007)

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Jean Améry-Prize to Drago Jančar

Literature prize for essays

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8 festival for fashion & photography

The “Unit F büro für mode” stages this festival every year, in the course of which the “Kontakt Fashion Award by Erste Bank” is also presented.

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Jano Mančuška

Solo exhibition of Jano Mančuška that brings to Prague his recent works never shown on place.

| 2008-05
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Vojin Bakic

Graz Kunstverein will be hosting an exhibition featuring the Yugoslav-Croatian sculptor and architect Vojin Bakic († 1992).

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Book tip: Carinthian Slovene cuisine

For Lojze Wieser cooking and the preparation of meals, like literature, form the cornerstones of every culture.

| 2008-07
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Book tip: series on the cuisines of Eastern Europe

For some time now the publishing house “Verlag Die Werkstatt” has been bringing out a series of cookery books called “Gerichte und ihre Geschichte” (Dishes and their History) that approaches in a historical, literary and humorous way the cuisines of countries regarded as “exotic”(at least from the culinary viewpoint).

| 2008-07
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Book tip: Unknown European Cuisines

Lucullan delights without boundaries.

| 2008-07
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Journalists tip: Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

In conjunction with the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung the ERSTE Foundation supports the free formation of opinion in the region.

| 2008-09
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Book tip: Unknown dummy

Lucullan delights without boundaries.

| 2008-08
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Event tip: N-OST MEDIA CONFERENCE

"Tiger State or Poor House? Romania's importance in the EU" is the title of the n-ost media conference 2008, to be held in Bucharest from 1 to 5 October.

| 2008-09
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Book tip: Eastern expansion as reported in the press

This book is directed towards all those who are interested in the European Union and its presentation in the media as well as in the development of a European public realm.

| 2008-09
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New Exhibition of the Kontakt Collection at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

“Cutting Realities. Gender Strategies in Art” - art from Central and Eastern Europe

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Exhibition “Peter Kogler 79–08”

Since the early 1980s Peter Kogler, in a departure from what was the new painting of the time, has used media and computer technology as the basis for his work.

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New Music “Reprise” CD edition for the Erste Bank composition commission

In November 2008 the CD edition „Reprise“ will appear under the well-known CD label Kairos.

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New Music “Klangforum Wien” and the Erste Bank composition commission 2008

The Erste Bank composition commission, which developed from a suggestion by Lothar Knessl, a juror for this award, is presented to a chosen composer on an annual basis.

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Publication: spike ART GUIDE EAST

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

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Bogdan Bogdanović

The Doomed Architect

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VIENNAFAIR 2009

The International Contemporary
Art Fair focused on CEE

| 2009-03
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Jean Améry Award for Essay Writing 2007

Prize winner: Drago Jančar

| 2010-03
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Jean Améry Award for Essay Writing 2009

Prize winner: Imre Kertész

| 2010-03
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Kakanien (D)

| 2005-02
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AUTUMN OF CULTURE 2010

Join us at and enjoy
the premiere at Children's Theatre Vienna (September 7 – 19),
the opening of an exhibition about money “Moneten, Kies und Kröten” at
ZOOM Kindermuseum (September 30 – February 27),
the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (October 1 – 10),
the VIENNALE (October 21 – November 3) and not last at
the world premiere of the Erste Group Composition Commission 2010 which was awarded to Joanna Wozny from Poland (November 18, Vienna Konzerthaus).

| 2010-09
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MUSIC CENTRE SLOVAKIA (SK)

Music | by Heinrich Deisl | 2004-04
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Film-tip: "New World" by Paul Rosdy, Austria 2005

26.10.05, 3.30 pm, Künstlerhaus Wien

Film / Photography | | 2010-03
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„Ungarisch-Jüdische ZwangsarbeiterInnen“

Ein topo|foto|grafisches Projekt von Maria Theresia Litschauer 6|44 – 5|45

| 2010-01
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Buch: „my underground“

Ein Familienfotoalbum von Abbé J. Libánský

| 2010-01
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Film: NEW WORLD

The film by Paul Rosdy is a travelogue leading across Central Europe, from the old world into the new. Available on DVD!

| 2010-01
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CD: „Forms of Plasticity“

Die Gruppe „Forms of Plasticity“ (kurz: FOP) veröffentlicht ihre dritte CD mit dem Titel „10“.

| 2010-01
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S/T/A/R Print medium for town planning, architecture, art and religion

The magazine for direct cultural discourse.

| 2010-01
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TOP 22 / Part I / Part II / Part III

Contributions by guests at TOP 22, the artists’ studio of the Unabhängige Literaturhaus NÖ (Independent House of Literature of Nether Austria).

| 2010-01
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Brno (CZ)

Castle courts, a boat, and the Tugendhat villa

Architecture / Fashion / Design | by Manuela Hötzl | 2004-04
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BOOK TIP: "Grandhotel"

the new novel by the successful Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš

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PAWEL ALTHAMER AND OTHERS

Exhibition at Secession / until june 21 / 09

| 2009-05
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Viennale 2009

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / 22 October - 4 November 2009

| 2009-10
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DVD „The Cash“

Indebtedness prevention among young people

| 2010-02
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tranzit.cz

NEW SPACE IN PRAGUE

| 2007-11
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Tricky Women 2010 Trailer by Elizabeth Hobbs

Tricky Women - International Animated Film Festival, 4 to 8 March in Vienna's "Top Kino"

| 2010-02
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Top 22 – Gästeliste 2000–2010

DAS INTERNATIONALE GÄSTEATELIER DES UNABHÄNGIGEN LITERATURHAUSES NÖ

| 2010-01
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Book Tip: “Brief summary of my life in the Mongolian Steppe”

In December 2009 the Czech writer Petra Hůlová was a guest at the Lower Austrian House of Literature. With her debut novel “Brief summary of my life in the Mongolian Steppe” (2007, Luchterhand) Petra Hůlová, then 23 years old, has immediately written a bestseller which convinced critics and readers across all ages.

| 2010-01
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Book tip: "Familienbrand" by Vladimir Zarev

Vladimir Zarev is regarded as the grand master of Bulgarian literature. In 2010 he was a guest at the Nether Austrian Independent Literature House’s Atelier Top 22

| 2010-01
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Chrismas Gala - Austrian Hilfswerk

20 years helping children in need

| 2010-02
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CD-tip: Crash Remix from Eastern Europe! Zenial 'Reworked'

Highly unusual CD launched in Poland
Label: Vivo, made in poland

Music | | 2004-07
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Book-tip: Modernism in Bucharest

An architecture guide by Ana Gabriela Castello Branco dos Santos, Pierre Levy, Horia Georgescu

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Book-tip: Modernism in Serbia

The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941
Ljiljana Blagojevic

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Magazine Wostok (D)

Informations of the East for the West

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Calendar
Exhibition: Secession: LECIA DOLE-RECIO
02 December 2011 - 05 February 2012