Artistic Freedom vs Fascism in Austria

Austrian politician Jörg Haider was perhaps most notorious for making favorable comments about Adolf Hitler’s employment policies. But for many Austrians, the satire by comedy duo “Stermann & Grisseman” that aired on public television just days after the far-right leader’s death last October was over the top.

Read the rest of this piece about Jorg Haider's death on The Comment Factory.

My German isn't good enough to have understood everything, I relied heavily upon a friend interpreting what people were saying. It was a lot of fun though, and being able to understand some German was encouraging.

So read the shit out of my piece for The Comment Factory. You won't regret it.

A Wiener (...Zeitung)

My feature article on ties between Austria and the United States is currently the lead story on Austrian Times. There's also a print version in Wiener Zeitung this weekend.

Here's the money graph:

"If you want to understand Carinthia, you should travel to the south of Texas" said Matthias Bernold, a Wiener Zeitung columnist who covered the 2008 US presidential election. "It's very similar to Carinthia, where people are still very skeptical of immigrants and scared of losing their own heritage."

Read the shit out of the print version here.

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