Tag: Column by Karl-Markus Gauss
Climate and society: Apocalypserl now
The end is apparently near, and people are now dealing with it in a wide variety of ways. But some let it stay. source site
Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Small Town’s Peace Experiment
Brčko, 45,000 inhabitants, on the Sava: After the ethnic wars of the 1990s, many people here are counting on a multi-ethnic future. It may help that hatred never built up…
Moldova and Russia: the weapon of words – opinion
I had been told so much about them that a few years ago I wanted to find out for myself what the Gagauz were all about. In the south of…
Russia behaves like an enemy, not like an enemy – opinion
Beware of the demonization of Russia, the spectators like to say at this war – meanwhile the Russian leadership insults the Europeans as “pigs”. So you have to call an…
Dear Germans, you don’t always have to be world champions. – Opinion
Children’s hospitals, railways, decent salaries: Our Austrian author wishes the people in the neighboring country finally really treat themselves to something for Christmas. Dear Christ Child, this year I would…
Where to eat and celebrate at the grave – opinion
Next week All Saints’ Day is a high church holiday, and the next day is the more familiar All Souls’ Day, on which not only believing Christians commemorate their dead…
Karl-Markus Gauss on the Yeniche in Austria – Opinion
At the end of the 1990s, I picked up a poet from the Salzburg main train station that I had never met before. When he got off the train, he…
Is Ukraine a nation state despite being multilingual? – Opinion
In Ukraine, some speak Russian, some Ukrainian. It is therefore not a real state, some claim. But what does togetherness have to do with a common language – and what…
Diet: praise of gluttony in times of dieting – Opinion
Less than two weeks and it’s Ash Wednesday! Time to renounce gluttony by paying the tribute a few more times and prepare for fasting by making renunciation a source of…