Austria

The following are links to blog entries related to Vienna and to Austria. Included below also are links to blog entries about Ukraine, Georgia, and Albania.

In the 1910s to the 1940s

Postcard Romance: Anny Lieb in Vienna and her Friend in Styria, 1913-1914 (March 2015)

 http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/03/postcard-romance-anny-lieb-in-vienna.html

September 12, 1931: Journalist Friedrich Scheu Meets Actress Luise Rainer After Her Vienna Debut (January 2015)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/01/september-12-1931-journalist-friedrick.html


Hungarian Apache in a Budapest Wurtsel: Dorothy Thompson Talks to Ferenc Molnár about Liliom and Life (November 2014)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/11/hungarian-apache-in-budapest-wurtsel.html

The Scars of War, Vienna 1947 (May 2014)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/05/the-scars-of-war-vienna-1947.html

Dorothy Thompson Observes the Passing of Vienna’s Coffee Houses (September 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/09/dorothy-thompson-observes-passing-of.html

 

July 15-17, 1927: Days of Horror in Vienna, Austria (January 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/01/july-15-17-1927-days-of-horror-in.html

 

John and Frances Gunther Celebrate the New Year, Vienna, December 31, 1930 (January 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/01/john-and-frances-gunther-celebrate-new.html

 

ANDOR AND ERZSÉBET PÜNKÖSTI: Fragments of Two Lives in Inter-War Budapest (October 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/10/andor-and-erzsebet-punkosti-fragments.html

 

Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis Celebrate Christmas in Semmering (Austria), 1932 (December 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/12/dorothy-thompson-and-sinclair-lewis.html

 

Olly and Her Modern Dance Group in early 1930's Vienna (October 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/10/olly-and-her-modern-dance-group-in.html

 

South of Hitler by M.W. Fodor: A Review Essay (September 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/09/south-of-hitler-by-mw-fodor-review-essay.html

 

A Great Night at Cafe Louvre in Vienna (February 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/02/great-night-at-cafe-louvre-in-vienna.html

 

Austria's Fatherland Front, 1933-1938 (August 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/08/austrias-fatherland-front-1933-1938.html 

Finding M. W. Fodor: Fulbright, Vienna, and Me,  (September 2011) https://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/09/finding-m-w-fodor-fulbright-vienna-and.html

The Assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss, July 25, 1934 (August 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/08/assassination-of-engelbert-dollfuss.html

 

The End of Social Democracy in Austria (April 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/end-of-social-democracy-in-austria.html

 

Austrian Anschluss: March 1938 (March 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/austrian-anschluss-march-1938.html

 

 

Vienna in the 50s and 60s

 

May Day, Vienna, 1955 (June 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/06/may-day-vienna-1955.html

The 1972 Viennale Film Festival: Propaganda in the 1930s and 1940s (October 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/10/the-1972-viennale-film-festival.html

 

Thinking Cheap, Buying "Brown" in Austria, 1972 (October 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/10/thinking-cheap-buying-brown-in-austria.html

 

The 1967 Fall Trip of the Institute of European Studies 

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2017/09/september-5-1967-leaving-on-jet-plane.html

Visiting Vienna

Vienna in 1873 as Seen by a Visitor from Little Rock, Arkansas

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2017/12/vienna-in-1873-as-seen-by-visitor-from.html

Three Changes in Vienna, Two of them Good 

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2016/12/three-changes-in-vienna-two-of-them-good.html

The 2015 Vienna Christmas Markets are Open and Are Bigger Than Ever

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/11/the-2015-vienna-christmas-markets-are.html

Sir, Your Goose is Cooked: Eating Gansl in Vienna

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2015/11/sir-your-goose-is-cooked-eating-gansl.html

Visiting Vienna: The Nussdorf Option (November 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/11/visiting-vienna-nussdorf-option.html


The Past and Present of Wipplingerstrasse 27/Renngass 9:  The Site of Vienna’s Café Louvre (June 2014)
http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/06/the-past-and-present-of.html

A Month in Vienna: Plan it Now! (2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/06/month-in-vienna-plan-it-now.html

 

Getting Around in Vienna and Austria: The (Mostly) Superlative Transportation System Is Getting Even Better (June 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/06/getting-around-in-vienna-and-austria.html

 

The Vienna Airport is a Mess! (But Not for Long, I Expect) (April 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/04/the-vienna-airport-is-mess-but-not-for.html

A Visitor's Guide to Buying Books in Vienna (February 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/02/a-visitors-guide-to-buying-books-in.html

 

The Search for Vienna's Best Schnecke (the Pastry, not the Mollusk) (March 2014)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2014/03/the-search-for-viennas-best-schnecke.html

 

My Ten Favorite Vienna Christmas Markets (December 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/12/my-ten-favorite-vienna-christmas-markets.html

 

Public Art Surprise at Vienna's Stadtpark: Stage Set, 1996 by Donald Judd (May 2013)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2013/05/public-art-surprise-at-viennas.html

 

Spanish Songs in the Basement of Vienna's Mozarthaus (April 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/04/spanish-songs-in-basement-of-viennas.html

 

Grisly Results as the Song-of-the-Earth Jinx Strikes Again (March 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/03/grisly-results-as-song-of-earth-jinx.html

 

The "Song of the Earth" Jinx (March 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/03/song-of-earth-jinx.html

 

Thinking Cheap, Buying "Brown" in Austria, 1972 (October 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/10/thinking-cheap-buying-brown-in-austria.html

 

A Vienna Breakfast (April 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/vienna-breakfast.html

Five Best Things about Vienna in April 2011 (April 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/five-best-things-about-vienna-in-april.html

 

Favorite Signs in Vienna (April 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/favorite-signs-in-vienna.html

 

Right-Wing, Left-Wing Politics in Vienna (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/right-wing-left-wing-politics-in-vienna.html

 

 

Other Countries and People

 

Into Ukraine via Chop: Euro 2012 and Soviet Art (May 2012)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/05/into-ukraine-via-chop-euro-2012-and.html

 

Life and Times of Mr. Tspulich of Uzhgorod, Ukraine (May 2012)

Http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/05/life-and-times-of-mr-tsuplich-of.html

Love Locks on the Uzh River Bridge in Uzhgorod, Ukraine

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2012/05/love-locks-on-uzh-river-bridge-in.html

Old Georgian Script on a Church in the Caucasus Mountains (May 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/05/old-georgian-script-on-church-in.html

The Search for Great-Grandpa Sobotka (April 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/04/search-for-great-great-grandpa-sobatka.html

 

Albania for the Adventurous (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/albania-for-adventurous.html

 

Found History/Found Life: The Sad Fate of Ernst H. Klavon in Königsberg, East Prussia, 1945 (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/found-historyfound-life-sad-fate-of.html

 

Encountering History: The Pleasure of Meeting Gita Vygodskaya (June 2011)

http://www.eclecticatbest.com/2011/06/encountering-history-pleasure-of.html