report: interdisciplinary

A Day in the Life of Hungarian Radio Journalist Anna Lengyel

There are some days in your life when you have the feeling that you are at the right place at the right time. 23 October 2006 was one of those days and the city of Budapest was the place.

„Say No to the Devil“

Svatopluk Karasek, who was born in Prague in 1942, was a Protestant pastor before he joined the wild Underground movement in the early 1970s and started to preach rock. He was forbidden to practice his profession, imprisoned and subsequently he emigrated to Switzerland. He has lived again in Prague for some time now and since 2004 has been the human rights commissioner of the Czech government. An interview with a wanderer between different worlds.

East Art Map

An (artists) review of the contemporary production of art in Eastern Europe.

"Bringing Communism to the Museum"

The Socland Foundation had invited the citizens of Warsaw to come there on that day and to donate exhibits for the future Museum of Communism to be housed in the cellars of the palace...

"The Drive Towards Discourse"

A period of European history reached its conclusion in 1989: communism. The formerly communist and socialist countries each experienced this epoch in different ways and thus also produced very divergent cultural and art scenes.

Art Histories, plural.

The Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski about his recently published book “Avant-gardes in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1989".

Kaleidoskop der Biografien

"A Very Nordic Thing"

The musician and artist Andres Löo is one of the most important representatives of the young Estonian scene. In this interview he speaks about Western misunderstandings regarding Estonia, the spirit of optimism in his native country at the start of the nineties, and his search for the ur-sound.

Non-conformist Murmansk

Tales of unfulfilled dreams in the far north of Russia.
A portrait of the artproduction and artists in Murmansk.
By Seva Dymodel, Kirill Junolainen and Sergey Mombus.

Theatre Moon Over the Danube

For a period of four months ending in September 2006, an undeveloped part of the Donaucity stood under the theatre moon of theatercombinat and its guests.

Beyond the River

Neither communism nor modernisation have made any lasting impression on the stubborn people of Maramures County, a Romanian district in the region of Transylvania.

“It is only About your Dream”

Jeremy Rifkin, the US economist, political consultant and author of the book “The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream” talks about the problems, the hopes and the opportunity of taking Europe towards a future political model. Manuela Hötzl talked with this fan of Europe.

“These ridiculous visas belong back in the depths of the 19th century!”

The historian and journalist Karl Schlögel is a traveller, observer and storyteller who perceives processes of change and reinterprets them unusually in a manner that is more essayistic than academic.
The Berlin journalist Bert Rebhandl talked with Karl Schlögel in the following interview.

Where is Mr. Europe?

After the rejection of the draft European constitution in France and the Netherlands, a kind of helplessness and perplexity reign in Europe. Erhard Busek, EU coordinator for southeast Europe and President of the European Forum Alpbach, sees in this crisis the long needed inducement to ask the question: "whether Europe wants itself". Economics journalist Michael Prüller talked to the former head of the ÖVP and former economics minister.

"It's easier to breathe in Ukraine"

A female pop icon's Euro-vision of Ruslana Lyzhichko, after the Orange Revolution. In this interview with Eduard Steiner given exclusively for "Report" she tells about the times before the change, the present atmosphere in the country and the Europe-euphoria of Ukrainian youth.

Where to go with Europe?

In active cooperation

Andrea Zlatar, specialist in literary studies and essayist, was town councillor with responsibility for cultural matters in Zagreb from 2001 to summer 2005. Dea Vidović spoke to her about politicians' ability to learn and the possibilities of partnerships in the so-called "independent cultural scene".

Intelligent Regions

Abou new urban planning: The city today in its new constellation as an urban region in a globalized world produces an enormous challenge for all actors in the field and notably for architects.

SAVE IT! Of the Desire to Accumulate

An exhibition about saving as a part of everyday life in Austria, held in the Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, in cooperation with the DIE ERSTE Österreichische Spar - Casse Privatstiftung

The Passion for Stamps

Of passionate collectors in modern Russia and the former USSR. An associative collage of observations by the Lithuanian composer, psychotherapist and collector Richardas Norvila.

"Reinventing the revolution"

Boris Buden, the author of the book "Der Schacht von Babel – Ist Kultur übersetzbar" (The Pit of Babel – is Culture Translatable?) , which appeared in autumn 2004, explains why he finds the belief in a new cultural identity naive and why society should not confuse politics with culture. Buden speaks of Europe as a translation community. An interview with Manuela Hötzl.

Do Understand Us!

Going it Alone – Persistently

The Swiss approach to financing culture in the European context, or: what kind of impact, if any, does the Swiss method of culture financing have on the cultural life of Central and Southeast Europe?
A commentary by Sibylle Birrer

What's happening at tranzit?

Classic texts of post-modernism in Czech, lectures and workshops in Slovakia, discussions about nowadays in Vienna next year.

What in fact is tranzit and who is behind it?

We introduce the people who devised this trans-disciplinary subsidy programme and those who organize and curate it.

“What I had to learn was communication”

In tranzit to Vindicate Contemporary Art. A Comment by Vladan Šír

"It’s like a drug experience"

Platforma 9,81 and MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE, two NGOs from Zagreb, in conversation with Boris Groys about social and cultural changes in Europe.

Get in Kontakt!

Tilling with care

The contemporary art platform tranzit has been dedicated to forging art and culture networks between East and West since 2002. But who are the persons at the bottom of tranzit? Here we present a portrait of the curator Vít Havránek.

“We and the others”

Europeanization and the search for identity – an interview with the ethnologist Bernhard Tschofen