Eugène Bozza, who was born in Nice in 1905 and died in Valenciennes in 1991, was a violinist, composer and conductor....
Cultural history
The Klemmkuchen – its history
The Fläming is a historically grown cultural landscape in the border region between Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt,...
Augustus Fountain in Augsburg
The first of Augsburg's magnificent fountains, the Augustusbrunnen, was built between 1588 and 1594. It was...
Calvaries and churchyards in Brittany
In Brittany, i.e. in the north-west of France, there are these wonderful, legendary and usually very picturesque...
Ravel’s Bolero – a classic earworm
Maurice Ravel composed his Bolero in 1928 for the dancer Ida Rubinstein. Throughout his life, he was to have a very...
European food culture around 0 and 1500
Despite all the contrasts in our modern world and despite all the differences between the cultures and regions of this...
Technical Museum for Industry and Trade
On June 20, 1909, Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the foundation stone for the Technical Museum of Industry and Trade in...
The Benedictine Monastery of St. Peter and Paul in Hirsau
Already in the early Middle Ages, a monastery was founded in Hirsau in the northern Black Forest, which housed the...
Styria joins Austria
24 May 1192: Styria becomes part of Austria. On 17 August 1186 the Georgenberg Handfeste was concluded on the...
The painter Raoul Dufy and his Normandy
"I know the sea as a bather, as a sailor and as a painter. It is as a painter that it is dearest to me." (Raoul Dufy)...
History of the Flower Island Mainau
The flower island of Mainau is one of the most visited attractions on Lake Constance. There are very few travel groups...
Josef Ressel, the inventor of the ship’s propeller
Josef Ludwig Franz Ressel, Austrian forestry official and developer of the ship's propeller, was born on June 29,...
The history of the monastery island of Reichenau
The largest island of Lake Constance is located between Constance and Radolfzell and is connected to the mainland by...
The Harpist
Who never ate his bread with tears, He who never spent his sorrowful nights Sat on his bed weeping, He knows you not,...
Daniel Dorff and his many, great works for flute
Daniel Dorff is an American composer. He was born in 1956 in New Rochelle/New York and studied at Cornell University...