Content of Print Issue 1/2009
That's it
PREFACE
20 years since the fall of the wall, 5 years of “Report”,
5 years of EU-expansion in the east
Manuela Hötzl, Antje Mayer
EUROPE
7 Europa has miscalculated
The Russian political journalist Fyodor Lukyanov
in conversation with Eduard Steiner
9 It is only about your dream ...
Jeremy Rifkin, founder and president of the
Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington D.C.,
about “The European Dream”
11 These ridiculous visas belong back in the depths
of the 19th century!
Bert Rebhandl in conversation with the historian,
journalist and traveller Karl Schlögel
12 Europe is not a weak figure
Bert Rebhandl in conversation with Hartmut Kaelble,
professor of social histtory at the Humboldt University Berlin
14 Moj Europe / Hey Europa / Hey Europe
Poem by the artist Erzen Shkololli
(from the video “Hey You”)
17 It´s easier to breathe in Ukraine ...
A female pop icon’s Euro-vision of
Ruslana Lyzhichko, after the Orange Revolution
19 Our future is European
Statement of Ruslana Lyzhichko, 2009
MEDIA
24 The view of the world has been Americanised
The journalist Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi and
the former Vienna correspondent for „Spiegel“
Marion Kraske in conversation with Antje Mayer
27 Corruption is not a cliché
Statement of Werner D’Inka, editor of the
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”
28 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
28 He who is tired, dies!
Last Report of the Russian journalist Anna Politkowskaja
32 What should I be afraid of?
In an interview with “Report” Jewgenija Albaz offers
insights into the everyday world of a journalist in an
authoritarian state, in which human rights are
of little account
ART AND CULTURE
39 Homesick
The artist Šejla Kamerić about such basic feelings
as homesickness, freedom and fear as a
European Bosnian woman
41 What do we need female Russian artists
in Vienna for?
Anna Jermolaewa: A fast career, a moving lifestory
43 There is no critical mass in Croatia
Vedran Mimica, Croatian architect and director of
the Dutch Berlage-Institute, analyses the significance
of Tito and the drama of Milošević for the culture scene
of present-day Croatia
45 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 Nargarethe Makovec
and Anton Lederer
46 Portrait of Russian Ella Opalnaja, whose
collection of Sovjet everyday objects
is presented througout “Report”.
Photography by Wolf-Dieter Grabner
47 At me there is something ...
In summer 2009 the collection of Ella Opalnaja was
presented in public for the first time in the framework
of a thesis project by Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair at the
Academy of Fine Arts and documented for “Report”
48 Stories of Objects
The Russian collector Ella Opalnaja tells tells
her objects’ stories
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
55 The Stolen Years
The Romanian writer Mircea Ca˘rta˘rescu talks about
the years of transition in his country
57 Slovenia: Instructions for a Visitor
A literary journey by Drago Jančar, Slovenia’s
best-known contemporary author
59 Rodina – Views and Thoughts of
a Young Ukrainian
About the understanding of language and
culture by Marjana Gaponenko
61 Reading histories and telling stories
About the life, reading and writing of the
bookseller Miroslav Prstojević
62 Language: Passion and Sickness
A literary essay by Milena Oda
65 Reinventing the Revolution
Philosopher Boris Buden in conversation with
Manuela Hötzl about Europe as
a translation community
66 We translators will not give up but will
continue to translate
A commentary by Slovene translator Urška P. Černe
67 The tongue extends further (truly) than
the hand
The pioneer Lojze Wieser looks back on 20 years
of experience as a publisher of literature from
south-eastern Europe
SOCIAL ISSUES
70 The culturalism trap: once a foreigner,
always a foreigner
A statement by social expert Martin Schenk
71 Europe must have the courage to declare
itself an immigration continent
A statement by Michael Genner, chairperson
of the organization “Asyl in Not”
73 Full in the world, full in faith
Sebastian Fasthuber in conversation with
Svatopluk Karasek, Protestant pastor before he joined
the wild Underground movement in the early 1970s
and started to preach rock. Since 2004 he has been
human rights commissioner of the Czech government
75 Forces in grey areas
Barbara Tóth in conversation with migration researcher
Michael Jandl about a sensitive topic:
migration and illegal employment
FOOD
79 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
80 Recipe: Standard Ukrainian Borscht
81 The knowledge of the traditional way
of cooking has been lost in Bulgaria
A statement by Bulgarian author Alek Popov
82 Standing in a queue was the only manifestation
of a civil society
A statement by Romanian artist Dan Mihaltianu
KONTAKT. THE ART COLLECTION
OF ERSTE GROUP
87 We also see our collecting strategy
as a political statement
Boris Marte about “collecting” on occasion of the
first exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) and the
tranzit workshops Bratislava
91 The history of contemporary art in this collection
is a history of ‘neighbourhoods’
Outline portraits of five members of the international
jury for “Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group”
of contemporary and modern art: Silvia Eiblmayr,
Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipančić, Adam Szymczyk,
Georg Schöllhammer
TRANZIT
93 tranzit is a network working independently
in Austria, the Czech Republic,
Hungary and Slovakia since 2002
99 tranzit Programme 2002–2009
Exhibitions, screenings, round tables,
artist’s projects, books, social platforms,
collaboration
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