The Kreisky Era – A Golden Age?
Full employment, a solid social state, an influential foreign policy and a ‘Sun-King’ chancellor who appeared to be an unbeatable. These are the images which are called up when you speak to Austrians...
View ArticleKreisky: Nostalgia for Progress
Theater pieces, exhibitions, a commemoration in the Hofburg, podium discussions, lectures and presentations – a celebration of Bruno Kreisky, Austria’s longest serving chancellor, who would have been...
View ArticleOIIP: Impoverishing Public Debate
Jan. 22 marked the 100th birthday of Bruno Kreisky, the visionary chancellor who reintroduced postwar Austria to the world – and brought the world to Austria. Under Kreisky, at the height of the Cold...
View ArticleKreisky’s Shadow
Even before he resigned as Chancellor, Bruno Kreisky responded to a question from the great journalist Kurt Vorhofer, who had died all too soon, as to whether he would one day want a monument in his...
View ArticleAuer Borea & The Kreisky Forum: Solving Problems Through Dialogue
Given the roster of leading thinkers who cross her threshold, it’s surprising how many are unfamiliar with the name of Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, since 2005 the General Secretary of the Bruno Kreisky...
View ArticleJohn Sailer: Gallerist of The Austrian Avant-Garde
Saturday, 15 March. It was just after 15:00, when I pushed open the door of Café Sperl and felt a blessed gust of warm air. After a few days of a spring tease, the weather had turned on us with a slap,...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: March 2013
To the Editor In urging the British Prime Minister to rethink his position on Europe, Joschka Fischer (“Eclipse of British Reason”, TVR February 2013) advises David Cameron to re-read Winston...
View ArticleThe Kreisky Forum
At the podium of the Kreisky Forum, British economist Lord Robert Skidelsky leans in as he addresses the audience; his explanations are patient, his words clear. More than eighty years ago, he tells...
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