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 [...]

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 [...]

Stefan Raab vs. Will Smith

In the US every TV Station has one or maybe even two genius entertainers, in Germany that kind of talent and space for the talent to develop is harder to come by. But we have one, the one and only Stefan Raab from his TV-Show TVTotal. Honing his craft since hosting his first show Vivasion [...]

Hedy Lamarr from Vienna to Hollywood

Hedy Lamarr is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Born November 9th 1914 in Vienna, she was the first naked woman on film, played for MGM alongside Clark Gable and also invented a guidance system for torpedoes to support American troups during World War II.
Read the article in the Austrian magazine:  [...]

Kaisers Geburtstag – Emperor Franz Joseph

Born on August 18th 1830 in Schönbrunn Palace, Emperor Franz Joseph would have been 180 years today.  He reigned during difficult times and his passionate marriage to Empress Elisabeth filled countless books and inspired movies.
Lesser known facts:  His brother Archduke Maximilian was Maximilian I of Mexico and Austria turned into a empire in which the [...]

Google honors Josef Frank

Josef Frank is an Austrian-Swedish architect and designer, who was known for his innovative designs and distinct patterns. Born July 15th 1885 in Baden bei Wien he helped found the Vienna School of Architecture.
July 15th Google Doodle is an artistic tribute to Josef Frank’s 125th birthday. To celebrate one of Frank’s patterns, The Vegetable Tree, [...]

Giles Hoyt Receives Germany’s Highest Civilian Honor

Giles Hoyt, Professor Emeritus of German and Philanthropic Studies and past Director of IUPUI’s Max Kade German-American Center in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI is the recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the Federal Cross of Honor, which is the Federal Republic of Germany’s highest tribute for services to the nation.
Dr. Hoyt has been [...]

Schwarzenegger at Journalism Gala

Watching Gov. @Schwarzenegger deliver remarks at the Southern California Journalism Awards Gala – at http://tweetcast.in/1348
It was a dream come true for myself as a journalist because I am the first Austrian Journalist to win the “International Journalism: News Feature” Award in the 52 year history of the Southern California Journalism Awards. Furthermore I won two [...]

German painter Sigmar Polke dies

German Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos-provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany. He was 69; the cause was complications of cancer, according to Gordon Veneklasen, a [...]

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