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This shall be a #Vienna #Wien thread🧶 1. Börek is spelled Burek and the dough tastes more like the #CentralAsia variant than the Turkish one: instant flashback 2. Streets around Meidling station remind me of Halle/Saale [anthropologist = noticing similarities before differences] 3. café goals 👀

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Judith Beyer 2d ago

4. Vienna consumes liberating drinks on every corner: Fritz and Palestine Cola 5. if you are willing to stand in the back of the Theater in der Josefstadt, you can watch Shakespeare‘s “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream” for only 6€ (or the price of a Burek!)

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Judith Beyer 1d ago

6. The New City. Josef Luitpold Stern (text), Otto Rudolf Schatz (illustrations) Berlin: Büchergilde Gutenberg 1927 Part of Red #Vienna |s attempt to represent its accomplishments in artistic form. The Nazis later burned around 1500 of Schatz‘s printing blocks. #art

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Judith Beyer 1d ago

7. The reason why biological anthropology is no longer taught within my discipline, #anthropology (in German-speaking countries): during National Socialism, my colleagues developed charts like this one to classify humans acc. to #race - a whole lot of bs, but unfortunately effective. #Vienna Museum

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Judith Beyer

8. nothing says « proud to be an antisemite » more than this silver plaque on silk plush, depicting the former mayor of #Vienna, Karl Lueger, presented by the « Anti-Semitic Women of the 8th District » 1894, Vienna Museum.

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Judith Beyer 1d ago

9. Close-up of Gustav #Klimt |s « naked truth » (nuda veritas), a detail in his painting Pallas Athene (1889), which he painted for the opening exhibition of the radical Secession (which broke away from the established Künstlerhaus). I am of course reminded of #Lacan for whom truth is always veiled.

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Judith Beyer 1d ago

10. Ending the day with Sachertorte. In a small café where seniors and students work alongside and guests pay “Oma and Opa” for baking excellent cakes. A kind of #Generationenvertrag I can highly recommend! 🍰 #Vienna

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Judith Beyer 5h ago

11. the only type of #remigration that is acceptable! Seen at the zoo in #Vienna today (as well as a baby gazelle born 4 days ago 😍)