Interventions, State Building and the Future of European Foreign Policy

Public debate at Haus der Musik, Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Wien on Friday, 26 November 2010, 15.00 hours. I was invited after presenting my project "A forgotten promise" to the ESI (European Stability Initiative) and I took the chance to present some questions about the perspectives and the guidelines of European exterior politics concerning the situation of Roma refugees in the camps of Cesmin Lug and Osterode in Mitrovica, Kosovo. No one of the lecturers wanted to respond anything about the status of these so called Internally displaced persons living in these lead-polluted camps. Another trying to publicise the unbearable living conditions in Cesmin Lug and Ostarode for nothing... See also: http://aforgottenpromise.blogspot.com/2010/11/interventions-state-building-and-future_28.html

Kurzer Prozess - Aus dem Leben des Wildschütz Jennerwein

All good things come to an end - after 14 years the ensemble of the Bauerntheater in Schliersee performed for an last time their play about life and death of the poacher Georg Jennerwein. Thanks to all actors!

The God of Farmers - Leonhardi Ride in Schliersee (II)

The God of Farmers - Leonhardi Ride in Schliersee

Leonhard of Limoges, whose saint´s day is 6th of november, was a franconian noble and lived at the court of the Merovingians before he left his home and dedicated his life to christianity. In rural and alpine areas of Europe he is one of the most venerated saints, known above all as the patron saint for convicts and for cattle and horses. As in many bavarian villages in Schliersee most families participate in this old tradition. Women and girls put on their traditional costumes and their herited family jewellery, men and boys deck out horses with shining harnesses and adorn them with flowers and ribbons. Sitting on the carts or riding on horseback the faithful pray until they reach the pilgrimage church where all participants, men and animals, receive the blessing of the priest…

Looking for Ataraxia by Eduardo Ochoa

Eduardo Ochoa for me transmits with his photographs his free and romantic spirit, but always in a disquieting and unsettling perspective. He seems to be an invader in a menacing and arcane environment, despite of all the traces and signs with which human beings transformed and marked the landscapes of Eduardo Ochoa. In Looking for Ataraxia you will discover landscape photography full of energy, electric landscapes, always in a dificult but obvious balance between calm and restlessness. The photographs are like cages containing a high potential of energy, always about to break up their prison, the prisons in which Ochoa locked them up and where all elements, material and inexistent, the vacuum, lights and shadows, are fusing into a new reality. The images of Looking for Ataraxia are reflections about the esencial, they are almost existential landscapes.
Now visit Eduardo Ochoas web space to contemplate his most personal project: http://eduardoochoa.carbonmade.com/

Sinti und Roma - in Europa zuhause

A forgotten promise/Florian bachmeier Fotografie in collaboration with Münchner Flüchtlingsrat e.V.: video projection of the pictures of A forgotten promise during the exposition "Sinti und Roma- In Europa zuhause" at the culture center Gasteig (foyer, small concert hall), 19 Ausstellung im Gasteig, Foyer Kleiner Konzertsaal, October 19 to November 7, 2010.

We are modular

Studio pictures for We are Modular Music Production. Visit their website: http://www.wearemodular.com/