Candy Fresacher

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Dr. Candy Fresacher is the new Chair of TEA and has been on the Board for the last two years. In 2007 she became editor of the ELT News and organized the 15th TEA Summer School in August 2008. As an American living in Vienna for over 30 years and as someone versed in both business and teaching, she has over 20 years of experience in the vocational college classroom as well as the same amount of experience in offices, including the UN and working for an American tour operator.

She conducts seminars in Emotional Intelligence, Time and Stress Management in Austria for the PH and the UN, in Europe for ECIS and in Asia for EARCOS among others. She also teaches at the Werbe Akademie in Vienna. For the past six years, together with an Austrian business partner, she manages her own company which assists commercial enterprises in various fields of communication and tourism. You can find out more about her by going to her website: www.fresachersigle.at.

She has a Bachelor's Degree summa cum lauda and a Master's Degree in English from California State University of Long Beach and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna.

Stories from Candy Fresacher

The Year of the Cat: ‘Silvester’ in Vietnam

Like Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays and New Years all in one, the midwinter Feast of Tet is a celebration of family and a nation

Candy Fresacher

29/03/2011

By rights, this should have been the Year of the Rabbit – that’s what the zodiac calendar says in China, anyway.But in VietNam, it’s the Year of the Cat.

“We didn’t have enough rabbits,” a guide tells us. “But anyway, the characteristics are the same…”

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Mark Twain in Wien - Now in Bronze

In all his travels he never felt so well as in “wonderful gemütlich Vienna” - an anniversary celebration of the legendary author

Candy Fresacher

01/04/2010

On Apr. 21, 1910, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias Mark Twain, died of a heart attack in Redding Connecticut. The year before, Twain was quoted as saying: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” It would be “the greatest disappointment” of his life, he said, if he didn’t go out with the Comet.

“The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’” He died one day after the comet came closest to the Earth.

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Virginia City Bonanza

Traditions of the klondike trump the draw of Superbowl Sunday

Candy Fresacher

01/03/2009

This sleepy little town of about 1,000 inhabitants lies nestled in the “hills” between Carson City and Reno in Nevada, USA. It is set literally on the Comstock Lode, the silver and gold mines that brought in a total of some $400 million in the mid 19th century and helped the North win the Civil War. Between 1850 and 1890, the 30,000 inhabitants of Virginia City lived in one of the richest towns in the world.

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Corpus Christi in Perchtoldsdorf

The Village Brass Brings Residents out of Their Homes for a Glass of Wine and an Irresistible Sense of Community

Candy Fresacher

18/02/2009

 

 

Community becomes theatre during the Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam) procession in the small town of Perchtoldsdorf, near Vienna, -- which takes place 10 days after the rest of Austria and the world celebrate.

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Rudolf's Schloss

Austria's Crown Prince at 150: Three Exhibits Honor his Life

Candy Fresacher

18/02/2009

What better way to close the summer than spending an afternoon relaxing where royals once trod?

The end of August features a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Crown Prince Rudolf's birth and an exhibition honoring his life at the palace grounds in Laxenburg, just 16 miles south of Vienna's city center. The spacious grounds and surrounding town also offer visitors a detour from hectic city life with quiet gardens and even apartments in a castle one can rent.

The Habsburgs acquired the Laxenburg castle, one of three on the spacious palace grounds, in 1306. Serving as a summer retreat for royalty, it played host to several royal births, including two children of Emperor Franz I and Kaiserin Elisabeth -- one being Rudolf.

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Twain in Vienna

Quoted by Freud, Mute for the Emperor; He Wrote Some of His Finest Work Here

Candy Fresacher

02/03/2008

When the Wollmans ripped open the walled-off fireplace in the living room of their apartment in Vienna's 8th District, they were surprised to find a stash of old bank notes, account books, diaries and photographs hidden inside, preserved for many years in the dry space.

Among other personal papers, Jörg Wollman came across what looked like the tail end of a letter, penned in ink in a flowing hand:

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