“Pearls and Presence” 30 years Austrian-American Council

Elegant celebration of 30 Years of Austrian American Council in L.A.
On September 17, 2011, the Austrian-American Council West (AAC) celebrated its 30-year jubilee in a splendid ceremony at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Country Club.�
The elegant affair was attended by more than 120 guests who celebrated under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Christian Prosl, Austrian Ambassador [...]

The Three Penny Opera

A milestone of 20th century musical theater, The Three Penny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) rolls on unstoppably into the 21st. In their opera “by and for beggars,” composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) transformed saccharine, old-fashioned opera and operetta forms, incorporating a sharp political perspective and the sound of 1920s Berlin dance bands [...]

Austria Got Talent

Fashion Design from the Alpine State Make Its Mark in the U.S.

By Sonia Laszlo
Austrian crystals by Swarovski have become a staple in the fashion world. Yet the Alpine country has so much more to offer when it comes to fashion. Up-and-coming Austrian designers whose work span from apparel, accessories to jewelry are And_I, Anna [...]

Tony Curtis is dead

Tony Curtis was born June 3rd 1925 in New York City as Bernard Schwartz to German speaking immigrants from the little Hungarian town Mátészalka
He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958 for “The Defiant Ones”, but will probably be remembered best from the timeless Billy Wilder, an Austrian immigrant himself, classic movie: Some [...]

Das Kriegsspiel

The word “Kriegsspiel” is obviously German, as is its inventor a military writer from Schleswig, Georg Vinturinus, who in 1798 invented War Games on actual terrain. It was based on the “Kings Game” invented in 1664 by Christopher Weikhmann of Ulm, Germany, and on a game Helwig, master of pages to the Duke of [...]

You will never eat salad without thinking where it came from again

Whether we like it or not, we all know that part of the American wealth and our cushioned lifestyle is based on a huge workforce in foreign countries like China as well as immigrants within the US doing jobs most Americans won’t do. Not only won’t do for the small wages they pay, but probably [...]

Scorsese, DiCaprio and Classic Films

On the occasion of the director’s fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island, which hits theatres this weekend, he let the LA Times know which movies he let his cast and crew watch to set the mood of this dark picture.
Come join us for film school with the master! Out of the six movies he [...]

Grammys for 3 Austrians

A Grammy, was posthumously awarded to Austrian jazz legend Joe Zawinul for his album “75″ in the category “Best Contemporary Jazz Album”.
One day I heard a pianist play `Honeysuckle Rose,’ … and I was hooked. I said, `What is that?’ He said, `jazz,’ which was a word I had never heard, and I asked [...]

Wonderlust at the new W in Hollywood

“Wonderlust”
- as the W Hotels printed on their CDs located in every guest room and on some banners at the newly designed building – has reached vibrant,
glitzy Hollywood in the process of redefining itself.
The impressive complex comprised of the W Hotels and the W Residences, apart from pretty much any hotel service you can think of, features [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in NRDC PSA

Unlike the US, Germany has been a forerunner in striving to become the world’s first major renewable-energy economy. Scientists from the University of Kassel have proved in an experiment called Kombikraftwerk that Germany can power itself entirely by renewable energy!
Austria, granted a considerably smaller country than the US, has been going green for years and does not [...]

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