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Private account of 🇦🇹 diplomat. Love music, poetry, puns and good debate. Views my own. Repost not necessarily endorsement.

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Martin Gärtner, Andrzej Tombiński, Janusz Mika before the memorial plaque for Trakl at the perimeter of the Kraków Military Hospital.

Martin Gärtner, Andrzej Tombiński, Janusz Mika before the memorial plaque for Trakl at the perimeter of the Kraków Military Hospital.

Flower bouquet in honour of Georg Trakl

Flower bouquet in honour of Georg Trakl

Post image Martin Gärtner, Andrzej Tombiński and Janusz Mika bowing their heads before the memorial plaque for Georg Trakl in Kraków

Martin Gärtner, Andrzej Tombiński and Janusz Mika bowing their heads before the memorial plaque for Georg Trakl in Kraków

Paid our tribute to Georg #Trakl today on the day of his passing, putting flowers to the memorial plaque of his at the #Kraków Military Hospital.

03.11.2025 23:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Gruppenbild vor der Mobilitätsagentur Wien   © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

Gruppenbild vor der Mobilitätsagentur Wien © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

Expertin der Mobilitätsagentur Wien bei einem Vortrag vor der polnischen Delegation © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

Expertin der Mobilitätsagentur Wien bei einem Vortrag vor der polnischen Delegation © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

Besuch der verkehrsberuhigten Kleinen Sperlgasse © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

Besuch der verkehrsberuhigten Kleinen Sperlgasse © WH International Services/Magdalena Szopa

#Stadtentwicklung, #Parkraumbewirtschaftung und #Mobilität. Ein umfangreiches Programm für die 20 Personen zählende Delegation aus der Metropolregion Oberschlesien–Dąbrowa bei ihrem Besuch in Wien. Wir durften die interessierten Gäste begleiten. 🚶‍♂️🚗🚌🌆🌍 https://bit.ly/4owECBm #ViennaOffices

03.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

www.bmeia.gv.at/kf-bukarest/...

03.11.2025 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Yesterday, the „Trakl-Tat“ Festival of Art and Literature started off in #Kraków where Georg #Trakl died today 111 years ago, with a lovely concert including a freshly composed piece on one of Trakl’s poems. For more of the festival’s progamme see (in Polish): fundacjaurwanyfilm.pl/aktualnosci/

03.11.2025 06:54 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Wegbegleiter und Wegbegleiterinnen Georg Trakls - Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg „Irgendwie kamen wir damals aber doch zusammen, sprachen miteinander und kannten uns.“ – Erhard Buschbeck über Georg Trakl War der Dichter Georg Trakl ein einsamer Mensch, der den Zustand der Abgeschi...

Ein Lesetipp in Erinnerung an Georg #Trakl - gestorben am 3. November 1914 in Krakau.
www.omvs.at/buch/wegbegl...
@trakl100.bsky.social @mgaertner.bsky.social

03.11.2025 05:54 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A good thread. Poles seem much more attached to family graves than Austrians on average (the cemetery nearest to my home in Salzburg is shrinking since years). I wonder what relation these displaced Poles kept or keep with graves in the lands they were displaced from.

01.11.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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On 29 October HR/VP @kajakallas.bsky.social issued a statement on behalf of the EU on Belarus’ hybrid actions at the EU external border. We will not tolerate any hybrid campaigns directed against the EU or any of its Member States.

Read more: link.europa.eu/MckdHD

30.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Belarus’ hybrid actions at the EU external border The EU issued a statement on Belarus’ hybrid actions at the EU external border.

The EU, including AT, stands in full solidarity with Lithuania and calls for an immediate end to the provocative hybrid actions by Belarus.

29.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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-Fossil fuel pollution makes hurricanes stronger
-Big Oil knew in 1954
-Solar panels were invented in 1881
-The sun sends us 18,000x more energy than we use
-Solar could power the world with just 0.3% of land (less than the land footprint of fossil fuel)

📍Black River, St Elizabeth, Jamaica #melissa

29.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 55    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0
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Gedenken an Georg Trakl in Innsbruck-Mühlau Vor 100 Jahren wurden die sterblichen Überreste des Lyrikers Georg Trakl von Krakau nach Innsbruck-Mühlau überführt.

Gedenken an Georg #Trakl - Von Krakau nach Innsbruck-Mühlau www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...
@trakl100.bsky.social @mgaertner.bsky.social

27.10.2025 08:16 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Not quite correct for Poland. Should be „still“ or „yet“ - „…Poland is not lost…“

26.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2️⃣ Ich bedanke mich für die Bereitschaft, den Wehrdienst zu leisten, und wünsche allen Grundwehrdienerinnen und Grundwehrdienern für die Zeit ihres Dienstes alles erdenklich Gute. (vdb)

26.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen hält eine Rede bei der Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen hält eine Rede bei der Angelobung der Rekrutinnen und Rekruten am Nationalfeiertag

Mit ihrem Gelöbnis am heutigen Nationalfeiertag leisten die Rekrutinnen & Rekruten einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Bewahrung & zum Schutz unserer liberalen demokratischen Ordnung & aller damit verbundenen Werte.

Es geht letztendlich um unser höchstes Gut: unsere Freiheit! 1️⃣

26.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

In the original (manuscript), it reads „tötlich“, not tödlich. I don’t think he made a spelling error there.
But how would you translate that into English?

26.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Have a lovely 🇦🇹 National Day today, my fellow Austrians!
If you happen to be in #Kraków, maybe see you for some 🇦🇹 art tonight:

en.patchlab.pl/program/cric...

26.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On 23 October, the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 was presented at the European Council. The roadmap makes proposals for EU Member States to work together to address shortfalls in all priority capability areas and to ensure that we are defence-ready by 2030.

Read more: link.europa.eu/KFJYrb

25.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 5    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

🇦🇹 is proud to be among the first signatories of the #UNCybercrimeConvention — making cyberspace safer for all of us, standing up for stronger #multilateralism, and reaffirming Vienna‘s key role as UN headquarters (@UNODC).

25.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Austria for United Nations Security Council
YouTube video by Österreichisches Außenministerium Austria for United Nations Security Council

Austria for United Nations Security Council 2027 – 2028:
#Partnership.
#Dialogue.
#Trust.
Videomessage by President @vanderbellen, Chancellor @_CStocker & Foreign Minister @BMeinl!

Happy United Nations Day!

m.youtube.com/shorts/phhOF...

24.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

24.10.2025 21:18 — 👍 5930    🔁 2813    💬 196    📌 189

Any country worse than the US on this scale?

24.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Der Brenner Basistunnel:

Un progetto che unisce.
Ein Projekt, das verbindet.

Ein Symbol für die europäische Idee. 🇪🇺

24.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 45    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

EU Member States have approved our 19th package of sanctions against Russia.

We’re keeping the pressure high on the aggressor.

For the first time we are hitting Russia’s gas sector - the heart of its war economy.

We will not relent until the people of Ukraine have a just and lasting peace.

23.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 641    🔁 127    💬 42    📌 14

We just adopted our 19th sanctions package.

It targets Russian banks, crypto exchanges, entities in India and China, among others.

The EU is curbing Russian diplomats’ movements to counter the attempts of destabilisation.

It is increasingly harder for Putin to fund this war.

23.10.2025 06:35 — 👍 2504    🔁 610    💬 132    📌 35
The stage set at Teatr Slowackiego‘s MOS

The stage set at Teatr Slowackiego‘s MOS

Barbara Wozniak and Daniel Wisser on stage

Barbara Wozniak and Daniel Wisser on stage

Barbara Wozniak

Barbara Wozniak

Daniel Wisser

Daniel Wisser

On Tuesday, the #Conrad #Festival invited @danielwisser.bsky.social for a talk on his book about an MS patient, a piece of #radicalhope, indeed. Curious? So it made me. Will get to read „Die Königin der Berge“ as soon as possible.

23.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Recent developments demonstrate how far #Russia is still away from a willingness for meaningful peace negotiations. Instead, Russia continues to attack energy infrastructure, cities & civilians. 1/2

22.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Photos: Piotr Markowski for the Kraków Philharmonic

22.10.2025 06:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ambassador of Austria to Poland Hannes Schreiber with Austrian Consul General in Kraków Martin Gärtner

Ambassador of Austria to Poland Hannes Schreiber with Austrian Consul General in Kraków Martin Gärtner

Hazuki Hirano, Alto/Mezzosoprano from Vienna, Austria, and Michal Klauza, Artistic Director of the Kraków Philharmonic.

Hazuki Hirano, Alto/Mezzosoprano from Vienna, Austria, and Michal Klauza, Artistic Director of the Kraków Philharmonic.

Conductor, Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Kraków Philharmonic on stage, receiving applause for their performance of Beethoven‘s 9th Symphony.

Conductor, Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Kraków Philharmonic on stage, receiving applause for their performance of Beethoven‘s 9th Symphony.

Celebrated 🇦🇹 National Day Saturday at #Kraków #Philharmonic, with 🇦🇹Ambassador to 🇵🇱 Hannes #Schreiber and Hazuki #Hirano singing 5 Orchesterlieder by Robert #Nessler on texts by Georg #Trakl as well as the #Alto solo in 9th Symphony by #Beethoven. 30 years 🇦🇹 in the 🇪🇺. 40 years #OdeToJoy 🇪🇺 Anthem.

21.10.2025 20:08 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Black and white portrait of Hans Krása, showing a side profile with a serious expression.

Black and white portrait of Hans Krása, showing a side profile with a serious expression.

Black and white portrait of Pavel Haas, wearing a bow tie and a dark suit, facing slightly to the left.

Black and white portrait of Pavel Haas, wearing a bow tie and a dark suit, facing slightly to the left.

Black and white portrait of Viktor Ullmann, showing a close-up view of the face with an intense expression.

Black and white portrait of Viktor Ullmann, showing a close-up view of the face with an intense expression.

18 October 1944 | A transport of 1,500 Jews deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto arrived at #Auschwitz. Among those murdered in gas chamber and crematorium III after the selection were three distinguished composers: Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, and Viktor Ullmann.

18.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 378    🔁 115    💬 14    📌 6

Shivering…

16.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Der Text ist ein Jahr älter als ich, er erinnert mich aber an die January 6 United States Capitol attack (2020).

»Wenn über mehrere Jahre hinweg eine Masse erregt, angestachelt, sie in Abenteuer gestürzt, ihr zugleich Hoffnung gemacht und Hass in ihr geschürt, 1/4

16.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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