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Description:: Walter Haider is the manager of a small grocery, Nah und Frisch, in Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Haider, Walter
Created:: 2014-09-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Franz Wuketits is a philosopher of biology at the University of Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wuketits, Franz
Created:: 2014-09-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Salah Ammo, Kurdish musician, talks about his path to musicianship, his childhood experiences of nature, and his family. He talks about Syria's many layers of cultural history, his Kurdish background, and his life and music in Damascus and Vienna. He mentions his son's experience of moving from Syria to Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Ammo, Salah
Created:: 2014-09-20
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Karl Pfeifer is Director of Vienna‚Äôs Center for the Documentation of the Austrian Resistance.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Pfeifer, Karl
Created:: 2014-09-19
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christian Koeberl is director of the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Koeberl, Christian
Created:: 2014-09-17
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Siegfried Kr√∂pfl is a chef and author of the cookbook "Wir Kochen Vegan".
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Kr√∂pfl, Siegfried
Created:: 2014-09-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Johanna Kandl is an Austrian painter. Her work seeks to expose myths of religiosity, historical constructions, capitalism, to distort them to the point, as it is neatly put, that they become recognisable.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Kandl, Johanna
Created:: 2014-08-30
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Eugene Quinn, radio producer, DJ, and writer, talks to Peter Shea. He describes his upbringing, his parents' appreciation of words, and his life in Austria as an expatriate from London. He discusses his work with cultural organization Space and Place on the Vienna Coffeehouse Conversations and describes some of Vienna's political, social, and et...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Quinn, Eugene
Created:: 2014-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Karlheinz Essl, composer, computer musician, and improviser talks to Peter Shea. He talks about playing progressive rock and finding the "utopian" concepts of Karlheinz Stockhausen as a teenager, and explains his ideals of musical experience with reference to the ideals of John Cage. He describes how his memories of playing prog rock came back t...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Essl, Karlheinz
Created:: 2014-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Katharina Hagenhofer is a graduate student in organic agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, studying the mechanisms by which young people acquire land or access to land for farming.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hagenhofer, Katharina
Created:: 2014-08-21
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13