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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nina Franoszek is starring in Easy To Assemble

German actress Nina Franoszek is starring opposite Ray Wise as Gala, a modern Good Witch of the North in the third season of Easy to Assemble -Finding North.
Easy to Assemble is an award winning web series created by and starring Emmy-Award-Winner Illeana Douglas. A Hollywood actress trying to quit acting and working for IKEA. The [...]

Tip: How to make an Advent Wreath

Der Adventkranz – The Advent Wreath
The Advent wreath, is a Christian tradition that symbolizes the passage of the four weeks of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the Western church. The ring or wheel of the Advent wreath of evergreens decorated with candles was a symbol in northern Europe long before the arrival of Christianity. The [...]

Austrian Musician Ludwig Hirsch is Dead

Austrian singer Ludwig Hirsch, (February 28th 1946 – November 24th 2011) famed for his morose, laconic, critical, macabre, reflective songs has taken his own life at age 65. He was reportedly being treated for lung cancer and jumped from the hospital window of Vienna’s “Wilheminen Spittal”.
The beloved singer appeared to sold-out audiences of over 200,000 [...]

Swiss Composer Kurt Oldman scoring in Hollywood

German speaking composers have a long tradition in Hollywood with Max Steiner, Erick Korngold and Hans Zimmer to name just a few. Now add multifaceted Swiss born composer Kurt Oldman to that list. Kurt has already received critical acclaim for a number of his film scores. He recently signed on to score the upcoming [...]

Beyonce has Austrian genes

Who would have thought that Beyoncé is related to Austrian renowned composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Besides his own compositions he was director of the Vienna Court Opera and later director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic.
The British Author and BBC-Journalist Norman Lebrecht researched this for his new book “Why Maler?”. [...]

Classic Friends Episode “Überweiß”

The one with Rachel and Ross using “Überweiss” in the hit TV Series “Friends”.
Ross: “ÜBERWEISS, it’s new, it’s German, it’s extra tough!”
Überweiß is not an actual German detergent. But the prefix Über- definitely is and it’s even more fun to make fun of Germans and Germany, a country where things actually work and do what [...]

Pentecost – Pfingsten

Pfingsten or Pentecost from ancient Greek: Πεντηκοστή is the the Fiftieth day after Easter Sunday. It is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection.
A nowadays seldomly observed pagan custom is the “Pfingsochse”. Pfingsten marks the first day [...]

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