2023-07-22 07:05
“Hanging places” are not quite what you would expect when you first read it. It is not an alternative name for the Galgenberg (as this place was called from the Middle Ages onwar… Read More
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A Blog about classical culture and literature. An introduction into classical music.
Contributions about the disappearance of childhood, education and about reading.
2023-07-22 07:01
The Gardens of Versailles are arguably among the most famous and impressive gardens in the world. Although their origins lie in the days of King Louis XIII, they are inextricably linked with… Read More
2023-07-21 20:23
It is probably the smallest landmark in the world – the bronze figure on the Langelinie waterfront in Copenhagen known as “Lille Havfrue”, or the “Little Mermaid&rdqu&hell…Read More
2023-07-21 20:21
One of the most famous works by the French Impressionist Édouard Manet is the painting “The Races of Longchamp”. It shows a scene at the Longchamp racecourse in the Bois d… Read More
2023-07-21 20:17
Théodore Géricault was a French painter, sculptor, draftsman and lithographer of the early 19th century and is considered one of the most important representatives of French Ro… Read More
2023-02-11 08:44
The Castello Aragonese is a fortress on the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, southern Italy. It is located on the eastern side of the island and is connected by a 200-metre bridge to… Read More
2023-02-10 06:47
The »Porte du Peyrou« is a triumphal arch in the southern French city of Montpellier. Completed in 1693, it was originally in use as a city gate. Today it forms the eastern entra… Read More
2023-02-09 17:58
Don Quixote and his friend Sancho Panza are certainly among the most famous novel heroes in the world and have been a symbol of Spanish culture since their publication. The novel by Miguel d… Read More
2023-02-03 10:22
The “Tulip Mania” was the first well-documented speculative bubble in European history. The day when the collapse of this cleverly constructed entity began was February 3, 1637 a… Read More
2023-02-01 07:26
The city of Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast seems almost like a monument on which the course of the centuries can be traced. For although it has been devastated and destroyed time and a… Read More
2023-01-29 09:43
Although it is a cruel story from the pen of the Roman poet Ovid, it shall nevertheless be told here: One day the goddess Diana was out hunting, but had no success and was accordingly in a b… Read More
2023-01-23 08:02
In the Austrian Salzkammergut lies one of the most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites in our country, which even gave its name to a period of the older Iron Age (around 800 to 450 BC): Ha… Read More
2023-01-23 07:57
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic Age. After a chequered history, this region reached its heyday in the Renaissance, when Tours… Read More
2022-10-11 07:16
At the westernmost tip of Liguria, barely ten kilometres from the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in the middle of the green Nervia Valley, lies the idyllic little town of Dolceaqua with its popu… Read More
2022-10-10 05:41
In 1806, Napoleon had succeeded by a clever move in turning the Prussian government against him and luring it into the trap of an ill-considered war against him. For by the Treaty of Paris o… Read More
2022-10-09 09:16
The art critic Félix Fénéon coined the term “Neo-Impressionism” for a style of painting that, according to its most important exponents, developed seemingly… Read More
2021-12-13 07:36
Mailänderli are the most popular and most frequently baked Christmas biscuit in Switzerland. In Austria, of course, we know it too and here it is simply called a “biscuit”… Read More
2021-12-12 23:02
François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) came from a Walloon peasant family. At the age of six, he was already a choirboy at the collegiate church of Walcourt, and from then on his path was… Read More
2021-12-12 09:07
Eugène Bozza, who was born in Nice in 1905 and died in Valenciennes in 1991, was a violinist, composer and conductor. He received his first violin lessons from his father, who came fr… Read More
2021-12-12 08:50
The Fläming is a historically grown cultural landscape in the border region between Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, where one of the most interesting Christmas baked goods in German cuis… Read More
2021-12-11 16:38
The first of Augsburg’s magnificent fountains, the Augustusbrunnen, was built between 1588 and 1594.
It was modelled by Hubert Gerhard (ca. 1540-1620) and finally cast in bronze by th… Read More
2021-12-11 16:06
If you mention the cinnamon star, especially if you do so around Christmas, everyone’s eyes are sure to light up. On the one hand, of course, this has to do with the effect of cinnamon… Read More
2021-09-09 05:07
If you visit the wine-growing areas in the south of Styria, you will notice the large windmills everywhere, which not only turn merrily, but also make a lot of noise when the wind blows and… Read More
2021-07-11 08:00
In 1857, Cécile Chaminade was born in Paris at the foot of Montmartre.
Her mother, a pianist, initially taught the little girl the piano herself and it soon became clear that a specia… Read More
2021-05-30 07:20
The Byzantine Empire immediately conjures up images in our Western European minds: magnificently dressed emperors, mighty domes and glowing mosaics, but also decadence and intrigue. Unfortun… Read More
2021-05-11 22:53
I probably don’t think of any other composer as often as I think of Messiaen in my daily life – at least not with this regularity, which has lasted for years. His piece Le merle… Read More
2021-04-11 07:39
Since the first advanced civilisations, slavery had been an important factor in the social and societal fabric of the Mediterranean, and in the Roman Empire it even constituted an essential… Read More
2021-04-11 07:30
It is probably the best known and most played march in the world: the Army March II dedicated to Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz, better known as the “Radetzky Marc… Read More
2021-04-11 07:17
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the star of the Renaissance, had a real problem with Pope Julius II.
The Rovere Pope held his office in the style of an Italian territorial prince and had Michelang… Read More
2021-04-05 22:46
Venice and Florence are certainly among the highlights of a tour of Italy. Both cities grew massively in size, wealth and power, especially in the late Middle Ages, and were among the most i… Read More
2021-04-05 22:34
In Brittany, i.e. in the north-west of France, there are these wonderful, legendary and usually very picturesque enclos parroissiaux. Such enclosed parishes deliberately separate themselves… Read More
2021-04-05 22:07
Maurice Ravel composed his Bolero in 1928 for the dancer Ida Rubinstein.
Throughout his life, he was to have a very divided relationship with this work, which quickly became very successful… Read More
2021-04-05 21:54
Despite all the contrasts in our modern world and despite all the differences between the cultures and regions of this earth, there is at least one element that unites everyone and brings th… Read More
2021-02-01 21:39
On June 20, 1909, Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the foundation stone for the Technical Museum of Industry and Trade in Vienna.
The main building of the museum was erected according to the pla… Read More
2021-02-01 21:27
Already in the early Middle Ages, a monastery was founded in Hirsau in the northern Black Forest, which housed the relics of Saint Aurelius. In the course of time, however, the Aurelius Mona… Read More
2021-02-01 21:17
24 May 1192: Styria becomes part of Austria.
On 17 August 1186 the Georgenberg Handfeste was concluded on the Georgenberg in Enns. These are two documents in which the childless and serious… Read More
2021-01-28 00:30
“Conozco el mar como bañista, como marinero y como pintor. Es como pintor lo que más me gusta”. (Raoul Dufy)
Durante su vida, el pintor Raoul Dufy fue primero impr… Read More
2021-01-28 00:30
“I know the sea as a bather, as a sailor and as a painter. It is as a painter that it is dearest to me.” (Raoul Dufy)
In the course of his life, the painter Raoul Dufy was first… Read More
2021-01-28 00:18
The flower island of Mainau is one of the most visited attractions on Lake Constance. There are very few travel groups that come to Lake Constance and do not stop off at the Mainau. The isla… Read More
2021-01-28 00:05
Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel, Austrian forestry official and developer of the ship’s propeller, was born on June 29, 1793.
A native of Bohemia, Josef Ressel studied cameral science, agri… Read More
2021-01-21 21:48
The largest island of Lake Constance is located between Constance and Radolfzell and is connected to the mainland by the Reichenau Dam. Since 2000, the island with its Benedictine monastery… Read More
2021-01-21 21:34
The Junkerhaus, now a museum, is the two-storey half-timbered house built by Karl Junker, which has been one of the sights of Lemgo since its completion.
Karl Junker lived in the house from… Read More
2021-01-20 06:00
Who never ate his bread with tears,He who never spent his sorrowful nightsSat on his bed weeping,He knows you not, ye heavenly powers.
You lead us into life,You make the poor man guilty,Then… Read More
2021-01-19 07:46
Daniel Dorff is an American composer. He was born in 1956 in New Rochelle/New York and studied at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. He himself is a saxophonist and bass… Read More
2021-01-19 07:33
On July 3, 1897, one of the landmarks of Vienna was opened – the Ferris wheel in the Vienna Prater.
Gabor Steiner always wanted to offer the Viennese new attractions on his “Ven… Read More
2021-01-17 08:38
Imagine the following: You are still sitting slightly sleepy and unsuspecting at your morning coffee. Suddenly your door is pushed open and uniformed gentlemen turn your house upside down an… Read More
2021-01-13 21:43
Fascinating rock formation of one of the most remarkable natural and cultural monuments in Europe, medieval sacral site and popular excursion destination – these are the Externsteine i… Read More
2021-01-13 21:43
Fascinating rock formation of one of the most remarkable natural and cultural monuments in Europe, medieval sacral site and popular excursion destination – these are the Externsteine i… Read More
2021-01-13 21:34
Leopold I. (Liutpold), called the Illustrious, was born around 940. He was count in the Bavarian Danube delta and appears already in the 960s as a loyal follower of Emperor Otto I and later… Read More
2021-01-13 21:34
Leopold I. (Liutpold), called the Illustrious, was born around 940. He was count in the Bavarian Danube delta and appears already in the 960s as a loyal follower of Emperor Otto I and later… Read More
2021-01-13 21:22
In 1858, Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca, the once independent republic in northwestern Tuscany. In the traditionally Catholic, bourgeois and elegant city surrounded by olive tree hills an… Read More
2021-01-09 15:26
19 August 1477: Marriage between Maximilian of Habsburg and Mary of Burgundy
The young Duchess of Brugund, Maria, was in great demand. For the Duchy of Burgundy (which included the Burgundia… Read More
2020-10-09 15:34
The city of Regensburg, which by the 11th century had developed from a fortified Roman camp to one of the most important and richest cities of the Holy Roman Empire, has two well-known landm… Read More
2020-09-11 14:59
At the beginning of the 16th century, there was unrest within the Franciscan Order. Many friars saw the great ideal of Francis of Assisi betrayed and longed for a simple life of service to t… Read More
2020-09-11 14:57
The stories surrounding the so-called ghost ships are almost as old as seafaring itself.
Which should not come as a surprise. For without proper knowledge of healing arts and medicine, epide… Read More
2020-09-11 14:56
Since the early 19th century the term “Altweibersommer” (summer of the old women) is known.
It should be noted that until about 1800, the year was divided into summer and winter… Read More
2020-09-11 14:53
One of the worst natural disasters of the last millennium, even worse than the floods of 2013, was without question the Magdalene Flood of 1342.
It got its name from the fact that the day of… Read More
2020-09-11 14:51
It is interesting how coincidences not only determine our personal lives, but also shape the so-called “great” history.
Something that on superficial observation appears to be a… Read More
2020-09-11 14:50
Silence of the people loud desire:roars the earth as in dreamsWonderful with all trees,What the heart is hardly aware of,Old times, mild mourning,And there are quiet showersWeather bright th… Read More
2020-09-11 14:49
Music echoes far away; but here is silent night,The plants breathe on me with a slumbering scent.I have always, always thought yours;I want to sleep, but you must dance.
It does not stop, it… Read More
2020-09-11 14:45
Above all peaksIs rest,In all treetopsDo you feelHardly a breath;The birds are silent in the forest.Just wait! SoonYou rest too.…………………&helli&hell…Read More
2020-09-11 14:44
My heart was beating. Quickly, on horseback!And away, wild as a hero to battle.The evening already swayed the earth,And on the mountains hung the night.Already hour in the fog dress the oakL… Read More
2020-08-26 06:22
Paris, beginning of the 19th century. It is the first warm day of the year and a small group, made up of members of high society, is on a trip to the countryside.
After admiring the beauties… Read More
2020-08-06 08:39
The Order of the Garter, founded in 1348, is one of the three former English court orders and still the highest order of knights in the United Kingdom.
The English term is “Most Noble… Read More
2020-08-05 06:27
Around 1380, the Swedish Imperial Councillor and landowner Bo Jonsson, a member of the Grip family, who had acquired a number of estates in the Mariefred area, decided to build a castle here… Read More
2020-08-04 07:29
In addition to the world-famous universities of Oxford and Cambridge, there is a third institution in England, much younger, but just as venerable and recognised as the first two.
Already i… Read More
2020-08-02 07:18
I was always convinced that red wine is the national drink of the Spanish. But in the meantime I have been enlightened that in reality beer and coffee are the most popular drinks in Spain… Read More
2020-07-19 07:48
“The Bedroom in Arles” (or “Vincent’s Bedroom”) is the title of three oil paintings and two drawings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
The first sketches d… Read More
2020-07-11 09:14
In the summer of 1789 all of Paris was in turmoil.
Although the people had been rumbling about for a long time, the thought of the legitimacy of the kingdom, which was more deeply rooted in… Read More
2020-06-24 06:37
In Christian symbolism the number three plays an important role, I am thinking for example of the Three Kings or the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
That is why it is usually ass… Read More
2020-05-29 06:20
Who rides through night and wind at this time of night?It’s the father with his child;He must have the boy in his arms,He’ll grab him, keep him warm.
My son, why do you hide your… Read More
2020-05-08 19:27
High in the north, where the land seems to sink into the sea, where people in their coarsely knitted sweaters trudge over barren fields and “bad weather” is the name for a typica… Read More
2020-05-08 19:25
A boy loves a girl,she chose someone else;the other one loves anotherand has married this one.
The girl marries for troublethe first best man,she ran into;that young man, he’s in a bad… Read More
2020-05-08 19:24
A bean counter is the term used to describe a person who has driven precision in all his actions to the point of pedantry.
Most people today assume that the origin of this word is to be foun… Read More
2020-05-08 19:22
In addition to this app the Leiermann will soon be available as a platform.
Various authors are already writing texts for it, such as Anja Weigel with “Trockene Blumen”, an artic… Read More
2020-05-08 19:17
In the north of Styria lies one of the economically most important regions in Austria. This is the area around the city of Eisenerz, which owes its wealth to the largest siderite deposit in… Read More
2020-04-17 19:14
Forefinger and middle finger raised, the remaining fingers pressed into the hand. Today this sign is used all over the world, be it as a gesture of joy and happiness as in the Asian region o… Read More
2020-01-21 07:37
He is probably the most famous Jester in European cultural history and is still the symbol of the funny mocker.
But if you leave aside the children’s versions of his stories and look a… Read More
2019-12-29 21:24
Jean-Antoine Watteau, who died far too early, was one of the most important artists of his time.
He went down in cultural history as the founder of French rococo painting, for which he, as a… Read More
2019-12-26 09:12
Almost every day you can hear that there is a lack of education everywhere today. Children who can no longer read properly, young people who cannot find an apprenticeship due to lack of skil… Read More
2019-12-17 09:53
If one obtains a throne by one’s own efforts, then one would do well to legitimize this claim by all possible means. This seemed even more important at a time when people still believe… Read More
2019-11-05 07:45
And children grow up with deep eyes,That know of nothing, grow up and die,And all humankinds go their ways.
And from the bitter fruits sweet one becomeAnd fall down at night like dead birdsA… Read More
2019-11-04 08:02
In the course of the 16th century the lute gradually broke away from its old role. Within a few decades, it rose from an accompanying instrument to a solo instrument, for which numerous work… Read More
2019-10-18 08:17
Born in 1573, Inigo Jones is regarded as the most important architect of English classicism. Little is known about his early years, but it is considered certain that he spent many years in I… Read More
2019-10-02 20:39
Today I’d like to talk about an official, even a section chief, who does not fit into the usual prejudice and who shows that the most beautiful flowers bloom in the strangest places.
I… Read More
2019-09-29 20:32
At the end of the 19th century Vienna was undisputedly the music capital of Europe.
While other countries were accumulating wealth, while the German neighbouring empire was striving towards… Read More
2019-09-29 10:13
“Yes, writing and reading.”
Yes, writing and readingIt’s never been my business,because since childhood.I deal with pigs;also i was never a poetPotzdonnerwetter Paraplui,a… Read More
2019-09-06 10:18
In the northern Spanish province of Bizkaia, more precisely above the river that separates the municipality of Portugalete and the municipality of Getxo in the Bilbao conurbation, stands a s… Read More
2019-08-29 10:27
In 1848 Europe was again in turbulence. In all corners of the continent were revolts against rulers, who sought, by all means, to become masters of the displeasure of the subjects.
However… Read More
2019-08-29 10:20
If there is an original Austrian dessert, it is surely the ring cake. It should not be missing from any menu. There is no old Austrian film in which it is not on the table, and the list of i… Read More
2019-08-13 08:28
The cello has such a beautiful, human-like voice and such a wide range of timbres that it sometimes seems as if the music speaks directly to us through its body.
Unfortunately, there are ver… Read More
2019-08-12 07:05
A small profession, a small medal(I almost became a privy councillor once),A little name, a little honor,a daughter “examined”, a son in the army,With seventy ‘ne anniversa… Read More
2019-08-09 07:21
Today the Cossacks are regarded as the archetype of the Russian being. But the history show us a completely different story.
As the name suggests (Cossack means “free warrior”) t… Read More
2019-08-08 08:13
Only an Englishman can come up with the idea of greeting a lost (and after a long search discovered) contemporary with the words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
But it must have… Read More
2019-07-20 07:23
By 1700 there were already more than 2000 coffee houses in London. They were also known as “Pfennig Universities”, because for this price you could get a cup of coffee and listen… Read More
2019-07-16 10:49
During his short life F. Chopin has written more than fifty mazurkas. He composed the first as a 15-year-old boy, the last in his sickbed, heavily marked by his suffering and unable to play… Read More
2019-07-15 14:52
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) is one of the most influential figures in Austrian history. It is only natural that, in addition to stories about her merits for the country and its people (for exa… Read More
2019-07-14 07:18
The Danube Waltz is probably one of the most famous works of orchestral literature. One of the reasons for this is that it is broadcast every New Year on Austrian radio and is also an integr… Read More
2019-07-12 19:59
In 2004 the Bremer Marketplace was awarded the title “World Cultural Heritage”. Rightly so, I think, as the town hall and the upright Roland bear witness to a free bourgeoisie, w… Read More
2019-07-06 06:49
“This change has brought forth a dear, magical girl who loves me and whom I love; it is a few blissful moments again in 2 years, and it is the first time I feel that marriage could mak… Read More
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