An Austrian concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she’d taken of of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers. Sigrid Fleckseder and partner Christian Thomas had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a […]
Current exhibitions at museums in Vienna provide a fascinating insight into a wide spectrum of areas, from medals of the Royal Habsburg Family to photographic portraits of celebrated writers.On show at the citys Museum of Art (Kunsthistorisches Museum, KHM; www.khm.at) at the moment are 250 medals from the Roman-German empire and leaders of the Austrian-Hungarian […]
A ballet dancer sacked by one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world after posing for photos naked has been given her job back.Karina Sarkissova was dismissed by heads of the Vienna State Opera after a series of nude photographs were published in men’s magazines Wiener and Penthouse.State Opera director Dominique Meyer pointed […]
A court has overruled the expulsion of a student nurse who was kicked out after posing for a series of saucy photographs.Bosses at the nursing college in Leoben decided to expel blonde Ramona Galler after she was portrayed in lingerie by a famous photographer in April.Galler asked her schools board whether she could invite Manfred […]
A ballet dancer sacked by the Vienna State Opera after posing for nude shots has claimed she was “discriminated against as a woman”.Russian-born Karina Sarkissova was given the sack by heads of the prestigious opera house after a series of nude photographs were published in Austrian men’s magazine Wiener.State Opera officials stressed the 27-year-old blonde […]
An Austrian has been put in detention in Croatia after police discovered child porn material on his mobile phone.The Croatian Times reports today (Thurs) that the mans mobile phone was checked by police officers after residents in Banjol on the island of Rab reported him for filming passing children.Police decided to search his mobiles memory […]