Everybody loves an Asset Stripper.
Review of the Event “The 1st ABS Balloon Debate” on Friday, 28 January 2022, at the Café Ministerium by Wolfgang Geissler Once upon a time, seven professionals were on board a hot air balloon.... Weiterlesen >
The Beacons of Gondor are alight, calling for aid.
Review of the Event Coffeehouse Quiz on Friday, 21 January 2022, at the Café Ministerium by Wolfgang Geissler You may, kind reader, wonder what this passage from Tolkien's book “The Return of the King”... Weiterlesen >
Diplomatic language troubles | The next episode
Ambassadorial Experiences | part 6 BY COLIN A. MUNRO East Germany In January 1990 on the occasion of the belated visit to East Germany by Douglas Hurd (DH), Ambassador Broomfield and I told... Weiterlesen >
Eigenverantwortung
oder wie man für seine Handlungen Verantwortung übernehmen kann und die Konsequenzen akzeptiert (Rückblick auf die Veranstaltung „Neujahrsempfang“ in der Bristol Lounge, Hotel Bristol am Donnerstag 13. Jänner 2022) von Wolfgang Geißler Der 15. Buchstabe... Weiterlesen >
How diplomacy saved a zoo director’s job in Africa
Ambassadorial Experiences | Part 5 BY ALEXANDER CHRISTIANI State visit of the President of Kenia, Arap Moi to Austria at the beginning of the nineties. His host was Kurt Waldheim, at that time... Weiterlesen >
The German Phrase Book (disaster)
BY MELANIE SULLY After reading the amusing contributions by Ambassador Christiani and Jochen Ressel on some awkward language situations I decided to relate my first encounter with Austria in 1970. Having decided Vienna,... Weiterlesen >