Eine Liebeserklärung. Oder so.
Warum widmet sich ausgerechnet ein Wiener Journalist in seiner Freizeit dem Balkan und den Menschen, die dort leben? Der Versuch einer Erklärung.
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Jahr: 2015
Jer smo ljudi.
Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia are just as affected by the refugee situation as Austria and Germany. The news and pictures a Western audience gets about the situation on the Balkans seems a bit unbalanced, to say the least.
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Von Steinen und Menschen
Rassismus gegen Roma wird am Balkan und anderen Teilen Osteuropas offen ausgelebt. Zu der hier beschriebenen Szene im Zentrum von Beograd hätte genauso gut in Sarajevo, Bratislava oder Budapest kommen können.
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Impressum/Imprint
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Two Kinds of Coffee Or: The Language Thing, Pt II
Part II of a series of observations on those minor linguistic differences in the language formerly known as Serbocroatian. Or why ordering coffee can give you away. And why it doesn’t matter most of the time.
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Sunny Days in Zenica
And now for something completely different. Some impressions from my trip to Zenica about two months ago. I got to spend a sunny weekend with friends. Unfortunately I didn’t get to take any pictures of the lovely waterside along the Bosna. Sunny Days in Zenica weiterlesen
A Slow Acting Poison
Roads may be deteriorating in most Ex-YU-countries. Public transport is in bad shape. Health care is chronically underfunded. Almost the only thing money seems to exist for in abundance is religious buildings. That isn’t just irritating to visitors from more secular Western countries. It isn’t nearly as innocent as it seems.
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The Language Thing
In those successor countries of Ex-YU whose language was formerly known as Serbocroatian, language has often become a means of setting people apart, marking the lines between ethnicites. While most of that primarily concerns bureaucracy and government affair, in Bosnia it is visible in everyday life. Part I of a series of observations.
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Muzej je otvoren
There are good news to be told from a journey to the heart of the Balkans. And some not so good news on this trip to Bosnia. That may seem absurd to people from the privileged West. Dire circumstances the people of Bosnia have to put up with every day.
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