Blogs in January 1970

The Palm House 1st January 1970

After coming to Vienna from Sudan to win a better life for himself, Hamza struggles to escape from the margins of society and the stigma of the immigrant. Following several years of hardship, his fortunes begin to change when...

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The Hotel New Hampshire 1st January 1970

‘The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.’ So says John Berry, son of a hapless...

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Das Ewige Leben 1st January 1970

In the Sigmund Freud Clinic there is great uproar…a patient has awoken from a coma. This is Simon Brenner, private detective. The psychiatrists diagnose acute depression caused by his return to his home town Graz. On Shrove Tuesday he...

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An Equal Music 1st January 1970

When The Maggiore, an English Quartet undertakes a challenging work of Beethoven’s, violinist Michael Holme is taken back to memories of playing this piece in Vienna as a student. At the same time he falls in love with Julia...

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Waiting for Sunrise 1st January 1970

Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering...

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