Metropole - October 2017

CONCRETE DREAMS Cities, by offering seemingly endless options, have become for many both the starting point and the end station ...

COVER STORY CECI N’EST PAS UNE VIE The painter René Magritte’s The Human Condition shows a landscape obscured by an exact replic ...

“We, the Roma and Sinti, found our home in our music. By singing my lyrics in Romanes, I honor the language of our ancestors.” H ...

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F or all that the European Union has done to soften national borders and foster something of a European polity, Europe remains a ...

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INTERNATIONAL immigration and security.” On that point, the EU, with its haphazard response to the 2015 refugee crisis, can be s ...

RUBRIKE Peter Havlicek Guitarist and Viennese Schrammelmusik musician by CORINNA BERGER “Schrammelmusik was pretty much announce ...

Live well & Prosper PROFILES Wine, food and music are essential ingredients for the good life, but so are a roof over your h ...

RUBRIKE Cecily Corti Philanthropist for the homeless by CORINNA BERGER “Discontent is an important part of life, it makes you se ...

august 2017 31 Peter Wolff Vintner and Heurigenwirt (inn keeper) by CORINNA BERGER “Working in nature makes you happy - to see h ...

T he one-eyed Persian cat Guinevere is a former international traveler now living out her golden years in one of the most pet-fr ...

resources can help you find your cold-blooded companion of choice. At the online pet market- place tieranzeigen.de, you can brow ...

RUBRIKE BUSINESS Why We Wo rk “A paid sabbatical? You can do this every three years?!” When I told my American friends that I wa ...

per week – in the United States, 38.6 – but these numbers also include many part-time employees. In Austria, nearly half of all ...

at least not for everybody. “Even though there was no single big break that deregu- lated the labor market, working condi- tions ...

Virtual reality is only for tech enthusiasts? Get ready to see fish, mice and fruit flies join the VR craze with scientists from ...

SCIENCE F or generations, scientists and sci-fi fans have inspired each other to (boldly) go where no one has gone before to bet ...

doing there and how does this affect their perception of the world?” says Kristin. Taking it one step closer to sci-fi, FreemoVR ...

40 octobert 2017 I t’s late September and posters of high drama, in vivid colors, suddenly appear all over Vienna. They show her ...