View from UNIVIE-Sommerhochschule in Strobl/Wolfgangsee.
NSFW
This week’s song is not a song but an album consisting of not less than 4 discs.
This week’s “song” is a detailed compilation of the recordings leading to the first album that sounds, at the end, like this:
It’s very impressive to see how difficult it was to find the “tone”, also from a sound engineering perspective (of which I have, unfortunately, no idea).
Nick Drake is, in my view, one of the biggest songwwriters ever and it’s a terrible tragedy that he died so young, aged 26, from depression. He released only three albums in his lifetime, each a beautiful masterpiece.
If this week’s song is too geeky and too long, may I however suggest to listen, at least, to his last album
This is, I believe, what I would take with me on a lonely island if I were allowed to take only one album with me.
Retrospect
#arsboni
I spoke with Sebastian Öhner, the head of Vienna’s Children and Youth Advocacy, in the #laundry.
I also did a live debate with Dr. Lukas Feiler asking whether it would be legal to introduce an age limit for social media usage on national level (spoiler: it’s complicated, but probably no).
The Vienna Legal Literacy Project did a session on the law of package tourism.
Strobl
I have been teaching and working at Sommerhochschule in Strobl since Sunday. Students are very interesting and interested, it’s, like every year, an outstandingly positive and very, very intense experience. It’s - by far - the best academic summer programme I know.
Topics discussed at the Sommerhochschule and the Sommerdiskurs will be of importance for the next year and years to come. This year’s general topic is “Security and the Defense of European Values”. I am recording most parts of it which takes me busy.
The opening speech was a very insightful, yet rather pessimistic, overview on Europe’s (and Austria’s) strategic situation from a military perspective, delivered by one of Austria’s highest ranked soldiers, Brigadier Berthold Sandner.
The video is not set to public yet so that you are the very first to see it - in my view it’s really worth being watched in full length.
I don’t record the Q&A sessions though, so if you want to participate in those to, you really need to come here (next year!).
From a technical point of view I believe that I am getting better (and, importantly, also more efficient) over the years although I certainly look a little stupid when playing around like a super-old Kamerakind.
© Marie-Catherine Wagner
However, there’s still lots of room for improvement.
Prospect
Job Offers
We have two vacancies at the moment. If this suits you, please, feel very warmly invited to apply for both and please spread the news.
#arsboni
I will have one live-session next week, still from Strobl. On Wednesday, at 16.00 CET, Prof. Dr. Nadine Pauer-Studer will speak with me on her book
I will upload the rest of Sommerdiskurs as well. And I might do one “surprise summer edition” with one member of the wonderful faculty
Look and Feel
Podcasts
Rechteasy has an interesting podcast episode with Prof. Dr. Martin Spitzer.
It gives some insight on (his perspective on) how to build an academic career and on (his perspective on) differences between studying law at WU and at UNIVIE.
I also listened to all four episodes of a podcast dedicated to Andreas Gabalier.
It shows, in my view, a very typical approach to today’s storytelling which is that the author constantly speaks about herself and her personal history with Gabalier’s music. As expected, Gabalier’s personality doesn’t fit into one single basket easily.
bruder, wenn wir nicht family sind, wer dann
I ran into this book in one of Vienna’s nicest bookshops, Riedl, that I like so much not only because of the owners’ friendliness, but also because I always run into something there that I like but have not heard about before.
I like it.
The promotional video gives you an idea what to expect.
Oliver Lovrenski was born in 2003 and is so youg that I didn’t find a German or English Wikipedia entry yet, only a Norwegian one.
I admire the translator, Karoline Hippe, in particular and must confess that there’s a lot of language in the text that I don’t understand - but the rhythm and speed and brutality and loneliness of and in this story on “socially disadvantaged immigrants” in Norway is beautiful in its directness.
Some reflections on it can be found on fm4, SWR has an interview, FAZ and Die Zeit have their comments behind paywalls (as usual), Arte a short video. It’s somehow funny how all these settled people in their 40ies, 50ies and 60ies (including me) work through this text that was written (in most parts) on a mobile phone.
Daisy
© Anna Forgó
loves all kinds of water (Neusiedlersee, in this case, not Wolfgangsee).
Have a wonderful week!
Kind regards
Nikolaus (Forgó)