Franzobel is an Austrian writer. He has published numerous plays, works of prose and poems [...]
Guests are, according to his findings, more and more difficult. There are so many stories you
could write a book [...]
Lounging around half-naked with vine tendrils in your hair and a floozy on your arm, you look like a pimp who’s walked through a hedge backwards...
Perfection is fleeting, so we need to see the beauty in the imperfect – that’s how the Japanese live with their philosophy of wabi-sabi, according to which all things are charming, even those with flaws. But it hasn’t been possible to carry this idea over to people, because in the land of the rising sun, it’s still business as usual: pressure, perfectionism, success ...
Only those who have time to engage themselves
can also experience and feel something [...]
The architects of the Bauhaus are both brave and fearful, and that dichotomy is related to time. Time, claim some quantum physicists, does not exist ...
Apparently, in Japan you can go and watch sumo wrestlers training then have breakfast with them afterwards. That was something I wanted to experience ...
The world has moved closer together, with the internet having turned our planet into a village. And how do people react? Let’s take a brief detour to another time of great upheaval – the 16th century ...
“Now, all that has changed. A means of loco motion for poor mountain farmers has become a luxurious leisure pursuit [...]
You do not need to travel to Papua New Guinea or Tierra del Fuego to have an adventure...
Is a fact still true even if it is not yet recognised as being true? Most people think so. After all, the planets were orbiting around the sun long before Copernicus came along, not orbiting the Earth, as they had believed in the Middle Ages. There was also gravity before anything fell out of the hand of the first humans. But do facts always remain the same? Or do they evolve ...
Spirituality is extremely personal – a new, freer form of belief ...
