Two Austrian Companies are Apple Suppliers

For the first time apple published a list of its suppliers. Two leading Austrian companies from Styria are among them AT&S and Austria Micro Systems are among them. Both companies are not allowed to give any sort of details about the cooperation. Discretion is very important for Apple.

Wolfsheim – Kein Zurück

Kein Weg zurück
Weißt du noch, wie’s war?
Kinderzeit – wunderbar:
Die Welt ist bunt und schön.
Bis du irgendwann begreifst,
Dass nicht jeder Abschied heißt,
Es gibt auch ein Wiedersehen.
Immer vorwärts. Schritt um Schritt.
Es geht kein Weg zurück.
Was jetzt ist, wird nie mehr ungeschehen.
Die Zeit läuft uns davon.
Was getan ist, ist getan.
Und was jetzt ist, wird nie mehr so geschehen.
Es [...]

Volkswagen and the Force

After the brilliant Superbowl Commercial Volkswagen does it again. This time with a canine chorus that barks a familiar tune.

Their Superbowl Commercial has 50 Million Youtube Views on Youtube

Austrian Author Michael Stavaric wins

Austrian author Michael Stavaric with Czech roots was awarded this year’s Adelbert von Chamisso Prize – “a literary prize awarded by Robert Bosch Stiftung since 1985 to non-German authors writing in the German language”.
The winner of the prestigious “Ingeborg Bachman Prize” also worked in the US, in New York and New Jersey as a fellow [...]

Oscar-Winner Jochen Alexander Freydank to shoot for Disney

The Hollywood Reporter announces that successful German director Jochen Alexander Freydank will give his feature film debut adapting the romantic comedy best-seller “Macho Man” for Walt Disney Germany. It’s the story of a sensitive German guy, who tries to be a macho to land a sexy Turkish girl. Disney Germany will release the local-language [...]

Highlights from the Vienna New Year’s Concert 2012

Some Highlights

A neat video with great views of Vienna – Music in the Air

Viennas New Years Concert 2012

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the third time to host the merry annual New Year’s celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons from Vienna’s Musikverein. This is Jansons’ second time at the podium of this much cherished event. The famed Vienna Boys’ Choir will add their celestial voices [...]

DC: Homage to Christoph Schlingensief

Homage to Christoph Schlingensief
Film series at the Goethe Institut Washington DC will conclude with a screening on Jan 3 and Jan 6
As a film, theater, and opera director, Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) was among the most renowned and creative personalities on the German cultural scene. Fighting passionately against deportation, racism, and human rights violations, Schlingensief acted [...]

Legend Johannes Heesters dead at 108

Johannes Heesters, the world’s oldest actor who performed with over 108 years, has died early Saturday in a hospital in Starnberg, Bavaria.
The tenor Heesters made his debut on the big stage at the Volksoper in Vienna, Austria in 1934. Subsequently his career took off in Berlin where, starting in 1935, he became a crowd favorite [...]

Tune into the Christmas Spirit with German Poetry

‘Knecht Ruprecht’ by Theodor Storm
Saint Nikolaus’s best known companion is Knecht Ruprecht. ‘Knecht’ meaning ‘servant’. Historically Ruprecht was a dark sinister figure clad in a tattered robe with a big sack on his back in which, legend has it, he will place all naughty children. In Theodor Storm’s poem, Knecht Ruprecht is featured with a [...]

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