The Soap&Skin

"When I was a child, I toyed with dirt. I killed the slugs, I bored with a bough in their spiracle.” For almost 15 years, the exceptional Austrian artist SOAP&SKIN has been singing about death and pain, about nature and ...

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Mr. Kronthaler

The roots of fashion designer Andreas Kronthaler, husband of Vivienne Westwood, are in the Tyrolean Zillertal valley ...

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The Sighted

In the middle of the green Prater we meet Julia, Kerstin, Damla, Dilan and Juan. All of ...

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Eva & Adolf

Sex and power, daughter and father, wife and husband, the eternal recurrence of repressed thoughts. In their ...

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The Butterfly-Heiress

In addition to maintaining her own small fashion label, charismatic Frenchwoman Praline Le Moult and her husband Harri Cherkoori run the venerable Vienna textile shop INDIE, located a stone’s throw from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Her great-grandfather, Eugène Le ...

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The pulse rises. The heart beats. Hands are sweaty. Breathing accelerates. That’s how it feels to ...

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Glaciers are not only tremendously beautiful, but also tremendously alive. They melt, cause sea levels to rise ...

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Kritzendorf, a little town 30 minutes up the Danube from Vienna, is where Austria’s emperor of fabric rules his dominion. Franz Müller’s legendary textile store is a Viennese cultural institution; a mecca for fashion designers, art students, and ...

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Is electrosmog esoteric humbug or a real danger? Just how radio-contaminated are we all anyway? We spoke ...

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The Sleeping and the Beauties

Jork Weismann is an internationally acclaimed fashion and portrait photographer. He works together with supermodels like Gisele ...

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A Lipizzaner stallion neighs, the cell phone of former Chief Stable Master Johannes Hamminger is ringing. But ...

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Mr. Kronthaler

The roots of fashion designer Andreas Kronthaler, husband of Vivienne Westwood, are in the Tyrolean Zillertal valley. We could have asked him what it was like to have tea with Prince Charles. But we didn’t. Instead, we had a ...

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The furious

Stefanie Reinsperger is one of the most popular actresses in the German-speaking world, thanks in no small ...

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How do you actually clean the abdomen of a sex doll? And for whom is this will-less ...

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The Nun

Kirchberg Monastery in Lower Austria may date from centuries past, but not so the nuns who live ...

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The Nose

Renowned Norwegian smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas has built smell showers and synthesized the smell of money. Her Berlin "archive" houses nearly 10.000 olfactory documents – including the smells of Vienna, sweat, and war. Nothing smells bad to the ...

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Riklef Rambow is critical. Toward all the romantics who demand a “city for all” he argues that ...

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The Gelatins

Die vierköpfige Künstlergruppe Gelatin ist einer der wenigen internationalen Superstars der österreichischen Kunstszene. Tabuisiertem wie Nacktheit, menschlichen ...

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In High Heels

Mari Katayama’s story reads like a twenty-first-century fairy tale: She became famous on the social network ...

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