Aglaia von Enderes – A singing lark doesn’t bring the summer?

„Some inches below the green grass mother made him a bed; the brown furrow slice is his blanket, fine roots are hanging everywhere, his future food. Deep silence and peace around him; the sun lays her hot beams across the soil, warm damp breath swells through the ground. Four to six weeks pass, then something is moving and stirring in the egg and a tiny clumsy grub is crawling out of it.” (Maikäfers Leben und Sterben – May Beetle’s Life and Death [1])

„An egoist with an unfriendly apart character, ponderous appearance and high self-sufficiency. He lives like a hermit and selfish as an old confirmed bachelor does and takes care of his own belly.” (Der Dachs – The Bauson [1])

Karl Landsteiner (Teil 2) – Viennese Plaques

2008-02
A new plaque.

2008-01-17
You can rely on Viennese commitment for its past. The damaged plaque was removed. As soon as a new one is there I will post the photo here.

2008-01-12
Landsteiner – one of the astonishingly many Medicine Nobel Prize Laureates from Vienna (born here or studied or taught in Vienna) did I portrait here. A pleasant surprise for me was when I saw that he attended the same school that Stefan Zweig attended. Somewhat embarrassing is the condition of the plaque in the Wasagasse in the 9th district.

Nobel Prize Laureates from Vienna

Karl Anton von Martini – Right Vienna

Do I make a (fishy) compromise and prevent a defeat. Or is a (fishy) compromise the bigger defeat for my consciousness.
I get these ideas when I look at the ups and downs in Martinis’ life in the many socio-political areas of conflicts where he was active. Because Martini (1726 – 1800) quite often stood to his knowledge, insights and beliefs even if this was not wise strategically. Perhaps his way of living was based on a belief like this: “If we don’t make concessions we can collapse but never get spoiled.”*

Karl Anton Martini was born in Revò thirty kilometres north of Trient. The Bishop Principality at that time was a “paradise for lawyers and notaries”. Affected by this he arrives via the

Paul Kammerer – Seriality

Kammerer’s portrait could be put up in the categories natural sciences, music, education and love. He was one of the many interesting hybrid Viennese figures.

Paul Kammerer (1880 – 1926) studied zoology and worked at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (Biological Experimental Station), the former Vivarium, at the Prater Hauptallee (photo of the Prater Hauptallee today, the building does no longer exist). He became

Stefan Zweig – School

The setting is still there. In Vienna one quite often has the feeling that it is possible to step into the past. To see what people hundred years before saw there.

For example their way to school and the school itself. From 1892 till 1900 Stefan Zweig went to the school „Wasa-Gymnasium“, the former „Maximilian-Gymnasium“, in the Wasagasse 10. A poem by Zweig in the Festschrift of the school in 1922 describes his feelings at school, his hopes for life and his insights later:

“Wir sagten „Schule“ und wir meinten „Lernen,
Angst, Strenge, Qual, Zwang und Gefangensein“,
Grau schien die Welt und wie nach lichten Sternen
So blickten wir der Freiheit zu. Allein
Je mehr wir uns von jener Zeit entfernen,
Scheint uns der schöne Übergang nur Schein
Und kaum erlöst aus jenen engen Mauern,
Schwand das Gefühl und wurde fast Bedauern.
…”

„We said „school“ and we meant „learning,
angst, severity, pain, constrain and imprisonment“,
The world seemed to be gray and like towards bright stars
We looked towards freedom. Only
The more we move away from that time
That wonderful transfer seems to be only illusion
And just escpaed from these close walls
The feeling vanishes and turns into almost regret
…“ (Content summary in English by me)

More famous pupils of that school? In German.

A glance at the shool? (Picture Galerie, click on Bildergalerie