Letters to the Editor: March 2013
To the Editor In urging the British Prime Minister to rethink his position on Europe, Joschka Fischer (“Eclipse of British Reason”, TVR February 2013) advises David Cameron to re-read Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at the University of Zurich. He quotes approvingly Churchill’s words “We must build a kind of United States of Europe.” Revealingly, Fischer [...]
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 2013
To the Editor The idea for the classified ads is just great!! It also presents an opportunity to say that we always look forward reading The Vienna Review! It might interest you too, that I attended both productions of: the Vienna’s English Theatre’s Lend Me a Tenor and the new Open House Company’s adaption of [...]
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 2012/Jan. 2013
To the Editor In response to your article “A Mother Fights for Custody” [TVR November 2012], relating to the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the custodial rights of the parents of Oliver Sorensen/Weilharter, I would not suggest that I have any “sided” opinion about what is clearly a very complex issue. However it is a shame that [...]
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 2012
To the Editor [Re: “The Yugosphere: Not Just Balkan Nostalgia” TVR Oct. 2012] I think Yugonostalgia is more pronounced in all parts of the former Yugoslavia. I agree that the possibilities offered by cultures are most visible. Renovation of the former homeland will, in my judgment, first be implemented across cultures, but it should be [...]
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 2012
To the Editor [Re “Uniting Europe, One Case at a Time” TVR Sept. 2012] This is Balkanisation, an old Austrian concept rather more successful prior to 1914 than after. But Habsburg Austria was in many ways more liberal than the European Union and its strength lay in celebrating diversity, not the authoritarian regimentation now coming [...]
Letters to the Editor: Sep. 2012
To the Editor Thank you so much for Valerie Crawford’s excellent review, “Gone: An American Vanishes in Vienna” [TVR, July-Aug. 2012, a documentary on the disappearance of Aeryn Gilleran]. I felt like I was reading my own thoughts. With your article, the screenings of the film and the ORF2 story about Aeryn’s disappearance [“Ein Fall [...]
Letters to the Editor: Jul/Aug. 2012
To the Editor, At dinner last night, my longtime friend Carl Djerassi told me about The Vienna Review and showed me the interview you did with him in a recent issue. I have to admit that I was pretty surprised by this, since I’ve lived and worked in Vienna on-and-off for nearly 38 years and [...]
Letters to the Editor: Jun. 2012
To the Editor Let me compliment Editor in Chief Dardis McNamee on her translation of the Günter Grass poem “Was gesagt werden muss” [“What Must be Said”, in the Voice of Others column, TVR May 2012]. Excellent! This translation approaches my ideal of translating; it makes you think that the translation is actually the original. [...]
Letters to the Editor: May 2012
To the Editor, Your article “Helmut Schüller’s Call to Disobedience” [TVR December/January 2012] was pertinent and I am sure that His Holiness is only too aware of historical precedents. I do not suppose he is about to grant the Austrian Church the concessions granted to the Eastern Catholics – Churches in communion with Rome whose [...]
