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DER KÜCHENCHEF
Star Chefs Spice Up Kitzbühel Resort
The ski resort of Kitzbühel in Tyrol, Austria is hoping to provide visitors with both a luxurious snowy and foodie experience this winter season with their snow pass packages.
DER BLOGGER
Who Wants War with Iran?
Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.”
WANDERLUST
Following in the Footsteps of Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote musical history and continues to delight people today. Some locations are, even today, strongly connected to the composer.
GERMERICANA
German Americans Cheer Bismarck's Triumph
Members of New York's German American groups came out in force to celebrate the end of the Franco-Prussian war that established Germany's unity. A report in The New York Times of April 10, 1871 make for interesting reading. Please click HERE
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Sorry, Austrians - Actor Waltz is German!
Fri, 08/13/2010 - 11:46 — Walter
Austria's star actor, Oscar-winner and "Inglourious Basterd" Christoph Waltz, is not Austrian, local media reported Thursday. Born in Vienna, where he also went to school and studied drama, Waltz nevertheless holds a German passport like his father, although his mother is Austrian.
A relative unknown outside Germany and Austria, Waltz became an international star almost overnight following his brilliant turn as Nazi officer Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds."
The 2010 movie earned him every major film award from the Screen Actors Guild award to the Golden Globe, and the Oscar.
Lauded at home, where he was even received in March by Chancellor Werner Faymann, Waltz never breathed a word about his actual nationality.
But history might soon be corrected, said the tabloid Oesterreich that first reported the news. Waltz, who lives in Berlin and London, was apparently taking steps to receive Austrian citizenship. And this might happen before the end of the month, the paper said. Photo: Caption reads: Pride of the Nation)
Austrian Times
News In Brief
DAS BUCH
What Caused World War I?
Many historians consider WWI to have been inevitable. Not so, maintains author Jack Beatty, a news analyst on National Public Radio, in his delightfully contrarian account, The Lost History of 1914.
STAMMTISCH
German-American Runs for President!
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann
How many U.S. Presidents have been of German descent? There are several of them, including Hoover and Eisenhower. How many know that a German-American is running for President today? His name is Ron Paul.
DAS KINO
'Farewell My Queen' Opens Berlinale
The curtain rose on the Berlin Film Festival Thursday with a lavish period drama telling the story of the French Revolution through the eyes of Maria Antoinette's servants, launching the 10-day Berlinale.
FUSSBALL
KULTUR
Guggenheim and Deutsche Bank to End Berlin Partnership
Once hailed as the mecca of contemporay art, Deutsche Bank AG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced plans to close the Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition space on Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard when the current contract expires at the end of this year. The partnership between the two institutions began 14 years ago.