observers

Award for Young Composers

A tip for young musicians

Balkan Library Net (E)

Benzo, The Tapes, Laton 2004.

On Benzo’s couch: Therapy sessions fit for theater and clubs

Web: The Hungarian Centre for Music Information

The Budapest Music Centre

Booktip:"1956"

the Hungarian Uprising of 1956

Book-Tip: "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945"

Tony R.Judt

Book-Tip: Slovenia

The history from the beginnings to the present

Booktip: TOP 22 / Teil II

Booktip: Literature from Central and Eastern Europe

The third part of the anthology TOP 22 of the Unabhängiges Literaturhaus NÖ

CD-tip: Centrope Sound

CD: The futuristic sound of Zbigniew Karkowski

"ElectroStatics"

Cd Tip: Trans Slovenia Express Vol. 2

Kraftwerk cover versions by different Slovene musicians

CFA - An International Fashion Project

Five renowned European fashion institutions join forces to establish a unique information network, which detects and presents current positions and developments in fashion design. This information network consists of an Internet platform with a digital archive and local documentation centres located at the different institutions of the partners in question.

REPORT

Exclusively developed by the slovakian artist Roman Ondák

Event Tip: Designblok '06

The festival is being held this year for the eighth time and runs from 3 to 8 October in Prague.

New Record Label: EASTBLOK MUSIC

Film tip: Good Morning, East Europe!

EU XXL film on tour

Book-tip: European Meridians - New Music Territories. Reports from Changing Countries.

Magazine: Eurozine.com

Book: „Fiction Reconstructed" by Marina Gržinić

Eastern Europe, Post-socialism & The Retro-Avant-Garde

Film Tip: "Corridor #8"

By Boris Despodov, Bulgaria 2008

CD-tip: FOP Album: ''10'' FOP – forms of plasticity

Ten pieces for and about the new member countries of the EU.

The Dog Eaters from Svinia

Bookreview

Fashion – Fabric – Reading Material

Creations by Hussein Chalayan

INTIMA.ORG (SL)

Book-tip: "Leap into the City"

Chisina, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Ljubljana. Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven Scenes from Europe"

Book Tip: "Europeans about Europe"

Book-Tip: Cross-sections 11: "The Glass Ceiling"

Book-Tip: "Why the future belongs to Europe"

"Austrians Only"

Project by Andreja Kuluncic

CD-Tip: Alexei Borisov - Multiviza

DVD-Tip: “Neue Welt” (New World)

Travel film by Paul Rosdy

CIMAM’s 2007 Annual Conference

“Museums and Universal Heritage: Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism”

Summer-Tip: Vienna Children´s University

At Vienna Children’s University more than 3,600 children are turning the university upside down.

Film-Tip: "KONTAKT“ - A movie by Sergej Stanojkovski

Starting 29 June in Austrian cinemas!

Book-Tip: "Moments of Romanian Architecture from the 19th Century to the Present"

A catalogue on architecture in Romania, containing the presentation of the architectural production from beginning of 19. century to the last decades until today.

Book: Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century by Mark Leonard

tranzit.hu

Artists in Residence

Book: The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin

Book-tip: East Art Map

Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe

60th "Prague Spring" Music Festival

USA - Video Festival

První dekáda // The First Decade // May 25 – 28, 2006

„MELODIA“

“Melodia” CD compilation Compiled and scouted by Sergei Malkin, Anna Ceeh and Franz Pomassl for Laton

Book-Tip: „Gebrauchsanweisung für Polen“

Book-Tip: „Gebrauchsanweisung für Tschechien und Prag“

Book-Tip: "Death and the Penguin" by Andrey Kurkov

Book-Tip: "Depeche Mode" by Serhij Zhadan

Booktip: Der Wert des Schöpferischen - Der Erste Bank-Kompositionsauftrag 1989 - 2007

(The value of creativity: The Erste Bank -composition commission 1989–2007)

Jean Améry-Prize to Drago Jančar

Literature prize for essays

8 festival for fashion & photography

The “Unit F büro für mode” stages this festival every year, in the course of which the “Kontakt Fashion Award by Erste Bank” is also presented.

Jano Mančuška

Solo exhibition of Jano Mančuška that brings to Prague his recent works never shown on place.

Vojin Bakic

Graz Kunstverein will be hosting an exhibition featuring the Yugoslav-Croatian sculptor and architect Vojin Bakic († 1992).

Book tip: Carinthian Slovene cuisine

For Lojze Wieser cooking and the preparation of meals, like literature, form the cornerstones of every culture.

Book tip: series on the cuisines of Eastern Europe

For some time now the publishing house “Verlag Die Werkstatt” has been bringing out a series of cookery books called “Gerichte und ihre Geschichte” (Dishes and their History) that approaches in a historical, literary and humorous way the cuisines of countries regarded as “exotic”(at least from the culinary viewpoint).

Book tip: Unknown European Cuisines

Lucullan delights without boundaries.

Journalists tip: Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence

In conjunction with the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung the ERSTE Foundation supports the free formation of opinion in the region.

Book tip: Unknown dummy

Lucullan delights without boundaries.

Event tip: N-OST MEDIA CONFERENCE

"Tiger State or Poor House? Romania's importance in the EU" is the title of the n-ost media conference 2008, to be held in Bucharest from 1 to 5 October.

Book tip: Eastern expansion as reported in the press

This book is directed towards all those who are interested in the European Union and its presentation in the media as well as in the development of a European public realm.

New Exhibition of the Kontakt Collection at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

“Cutting Realities. Gender Strategies in Art” - art from Central and Eastern Europe

Exhibition “Peter Kogler 79–08”

Since the early 1980s Peter Kogler, in a departure from what was the new painting of the time, has used media and computer technology as the basis for his work.

New Music “Reprise” CD edition for the Erste Bank composition commission

In November 2008 the CD edition „Reprise“ will appear under the well-known CD label Kairos.

New Music “Klangforum Wien” and the Erste Bank composition commission 2008

The Erste Bank composition commission, which developed from a suggestion by Lothar Knessl, a juror for this award, is presented to a chosen composer on an annual basis.

The new “Report”: “Where to go with Europe?”

The new “Report”: “Where to go with Europe?”

Book tip: Július Koller: An Artists' Artist

Kakanien (D)

Book: „Who are the wrongdoers?" by Slavenka Drakulić

Label-tip: Laton

Literatur im Überblick (Literature at a Glance) (D)

Writers' Studio in the Independent Literature House, Lower Austria

MUSIC CENTRE SLOVAKIA (SK)

Film-tip: "New World" by Paul Rosdy, Austria 2005

26.10.05, 3.30 pm, Künstlerhaus Wien

Kontakt. Fashion Award by Erste Bank: Olah Gyarfas

Book tip: An Unforgettable Face

Plotki - Online Platform: Entertainment from the East

Brno (CZ)

Castle courts, a boat, and the Tugendhat villa

Remont - independent Artistsunion, Belgrade (E/SB)

BOOK TIP: "Grandhotel"

the new novel by the successful Czech author Jaroslav Rudiš

Web-tip: Russian Web Girls (RU/E)

Radio-tip: Slovene Radio in Carinthia, on the air since 21 March

tranzit.cz

NEW SPACE IN PRAGUE

Wieser-Verlag (D)

Young Blood: I’m a Young "Austerian" Architect!

CD-tip: Crash Remix from Eastern Europe! Zenial 'Reworked'

Highly unusual CD launched in Poland
Label: Vivo, made in poland

Art collection: Burgenland

CD-tip: F.R.U.I.T.S. & Forbidden Beat (Laton)

Book-tip: Slovakia Architecture

Architektur im Ringturm XI

Art collection: Budapest

Book-tip: Modernism in Bucharest

An architecture guide by Ana Gabriela Castello Branco dos Santos, Pierre Levy, Horia Georgescu

Exhibition: Looted Books. The Austrian National Library Confronts its Nazi Past

09.12.04 – 25.01.05

Art collection: Sarajewo

Book-tip: Modernism in Serbia

The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941
Ljiljana Blagojevic

Book-tip: Abbé J. Libánský, “my underground”, 2004

Webtip: Magazine, Network, Database

Magazine Wostok (D)

Informations of the East for the West