Mit Snježana beim Herrenfriseur Budimir und Tihomir in der Tvrđa kennen zu lernen war schon ein sehr guter Anfang für den ersten Tag. Genau genommen ist das aber eine Untertreibung in zweierlei Hinsicht: erstens habe ich den ersten Tag mit Zugfahren, dem Suchen einer Unterkunft (bei der mir auch Snježana behilflich gewesen ist), einem kleinen [---]

Osijek – Zagreb – Varazdin [[[ Übersicht: Osijek-Zagreb-Varazdin Beiträge ]]] Hier beginnt die zweite Kroatienreise als Serie von Beiträgen mit Bildern und Text. Ich mische dabei Schnappschüsse, Straßenfotografie und Portraits von Menschen denen ich begegnet bin. Hauptsache nicht zu Hause: so habe ich mein schriftliches Tagebuch (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem fotografischen) im Zug von [---]

Das beste kommt zum Schluß Beim Editieren der Fotos, die ich im Frühjahr während der OETage gemacht habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass zwischen all den Reportagen und Gruppenfotos viele meiner “privaten Schnappschüsse” übersehen wurden. Ich reiche diese nun in loser Form nach. Eine Frage an dieser Stelle an die Germanistinnen: ist “editieren” in diesem Zusammenhang [---]

Menschenbilder in Café Trica The last day (Saturday) was the opening of my Menschenbilder exhibition in Café Trica. This is probably the most fancy place to go for a kava in Osijek, and everyone wants to hang around there. In all honesty I didn’t expect that much, because a) it was the last day of [---]

Theater And Little Alien In case you wonder what the theater was about or how it looked like, ask the lady who told me not to take pictures. t’was some Oedoen von Horvath remake about identity and relationships in a money driven world – as far as I remember through the veil of anger Took [---]

Reading “Konfrontationen, Gedichte 2005 – 2008″ After a long night it was a bit hard to push the tired eye behind the viewfinder again at high noon. But fortunately the reading of Maria Seisenbacher and Hermann Niklas from their newest release “Konfrontationen, Gedichte 2005 – 2008″ was quite relaxing compared to the events from last [---]

Jazz Aftermath As usual at events like the Jazz concert there is some free wine and beer after the performance, which makes for a good start into the night. Outside the museum we met Lana, an artist and painter in Osijek who also lived in Paris and Rijeka. I remember that my first words to [---]

Jeunesses Musicales Croatia After the gallery exhibition we moved to the Archeological Museum (which is just around the corner in Tvrda) to see and more so hear Sigi Feigl conducting the big band Jeunesses Musicales Croatia. The composer Kresimir Herceg was also attending the performance. First let’s start with some official stuff, like … waiting [---]

Waldinger [technical note begin] I have changed the gallery system to my own solution, and now there can be photos with comments. Better yet, these photos are marked with a red outline. To read the comment, click the photo and watch at the bottom of the larger version. Thanks for your attention. [technical note end] [---]

Painting After we had that first Franck coffee in the café at the Drawa promenade there was the first event on Wednesday 26th at 3 pm: a group of children painting with assistance from Jelena Dabic and accompanied by the sounds of Gustav Mahler. If you don’t mind the h in Mahler, we get that [---]