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Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 3: ' Who is the policeman's wife really? '  Part 2: ' The nice wife of the policeman ' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' Part 1 to 3 of the story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   Part 4: 'Woke up!' The 'Bourgeois Desires' were until yet a fictitious story inspired by a dream about sex and crime playing in Austria's security agent and justice scene. 'Woke up!' throws a realistic light from a very personal view on the situation in Austria how it was made generously public in the last around ten days. With this episode entitled 'Woke up!', the 'Bourgeois Desires'-series gets an essential thread spun by fate and written down in a personal note by Karin Sawetz on 25 May, published on 28 May 2019. Personal notes b...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 3: 'Who is the policeman's wife really?' Part 2: ' The nice wife of the policeman ' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   "The Hofrat is only a perverse civil servant who benefits from the system. He doesn't belong to the far-left nor to the far-right group in our justice and executive system we are observing," she says to her husband, the policeman. "So, what's your advice? Do you have any order by your department?" - "No, currently not. They reacted amused when they heard from the disgusting action of the Hofrat - a typical sociopath - and meant that the rats move on the tracks of the system's weakness across the whole country. They monitor an increasing amount of executions of sea...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 2: 'The nice wife of the policeman' Part 1: ' The dark side of a counselor's life ' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   "A nice woman, friendly and yet distant, has this colleague from the group of civilian investigators at his side," thought the counselor on the occasion of a farewell party of a colleague from the municipal administration into retirement. With the typical bad city wine, the Viennese 'Schmäh' (a sarcastic humour) is well smeared to slip the way down to the terrain where the Austrians feel at home: the sexual potency showing-off. The potency show was underpinned by wordplays referencing that the structure of thinking is caused by the Austrian usage of words. Jokes such as that the word tourism means in Austrian German 'Fremdenverkehr' ...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by  Karin Sawetz Part 1: 'The dark side of a counselor's life' The story about the Austrian state counselor (in German 'Hofrat') is purely fictional and inspired by a dream by the series' author Karin Sawetz .   The state counselor is a nice civil servant. He is polite, correct and never had any issues with the law. For sure not! The Hofrat is police jurist and stands for the law and for correctness. His suit attracts no attention by anyone who has sense for style; his whole appearance is uninteresting. The only thing that makes him interesting is his position at the state where people have to pay attention - if they want or not.  Probably this situation - the forced friendliness of people who are working for him, police men and police women, the servility of the ones who were impeached and had to get in contact in the one or other way with him, in combination with the defiance against the person he really is withou...

by Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice Nowadays, it's better to use negative definitions to elaborate what's 'good'. Defining the 'evil' is much easier than finding signs of the good as its counterpart delivers in our days the best performance in the meaning of the biggest impact on society. So I try to work out one of the best and most perfidious signs of what makes evil so well performing: it's the strategy of letting others run through a maze as long as possible and change the design of the labyrinth in the moment the first have unveiled its structure. The best of the best directors of a good vs. evil dramaturgy involve the victim of the 1st chapter as offender in the second chapter which runs like a synchronized layer over the rabbit-warren-like knitted thread. When the first victim is branded as the origin of all evil - yes, then the master work is done perfectly and everybody is confused. The Austrians are witnessing currently this strategy ...

fig.:  The image shows me sitting at the tower of  Habsburgwarte at the Hermannskogel with view  over Vienna.  by Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice Currently, the rally for getting the people's votes at the legislative election on 15 October is in full speed. The political parties cook their own soups in different styles; the ones more stylish, the others more foul-mouthed. There is no difference between right or left when it comes to strong words and messages in the tradition of aggressive 'battle-cries' just as if the mission is to take the castle. And truly, it's literally  the mission of the political parties to get the most votes at the legislative election to occupy the Hofburg, the former seat of the Habsburg monarchy where today Austria's chancellor resides. The chancellor is the country's most important political position. In Austria, the president has in contrary to the US - only for example, less political influence. Perhaps some are now...

by Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice fig.:  The picture shows me standing in front of an island with grazing sheep. The purple rays appear as if the sheep get illuminated.  A friend shot the photo with my smartphone. The sheep's illumination is actually fake, as the purple unearthly rays at the image on this page were produced by dirt  - such as fake in general is often produced by dirt. No question, fake can have a seductively nice appeal what makes it more difficult to resist.  I can imagine the consistency of the purple rays producing camera lens' dirt; it's probably a texture mixed from my lip gloss and hand cream. The beauty products are everything else than dirty but on the place where they had landed they were changing reality into an unreal, dream-like picture.  The same happens at 'dirty campaigning' with reality. The ingredients aren't dirty but through the way they are communicated, a greasy information soup is cooked to manipulat...

by Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice The appearance of double meaning in context with legal rights is normally not healthy for a society but in the following case, it opens the view on the legal system from two perspectives with the almost pedagogical intention to make aware that the people are responsible for the system - and that nobody can wash his or her hands completely in innocence when an inhuman or unfair law is executed. Where I made this experience? It was last Saturday in Lower Austria at the exhibition ‘Alles was Recht ist’ at Schloss Pöggstall ( alleswasrechtist.at ). The title ‘Alles was Recht ist’ can be read from two angles: the one is in the meaning of ‘Everything about justice’ concerning court, law, punishment, imprisonment,... ; the other reading references a typical Austrian saying which expresses embarrassment about morally unfair incidents backed by law.  The exhibition is divided into 5 chapters. It begins with the law book ‘Schwabenspiegel’ fro...

'Dog Tales' series, 4th episode  ( 1st episode  -  2nd episode  - 3rd episode ) By  Fashionoffice 's publisher Karin Sawetz Marc Cabana appears in my dream like this strange creature once born nearby Vienna, in Prague. 'Golem' is the name of this creature and entered the colloquial language as expression for a dumb person.  fig.:  The image shows me at the orangery at Schloss Hof in Austria nearby the border to Slovakia. I ask him: "Are you a golem?" Marc Cabana: "I don't know the word 'golem'."  "Aren't you Viennese?" Marc Cabana: "I'm Viennese, but I've rarely contact with people whose families have Viennese or Austrian roots." "A golem is a creature by a magician (in the original story by a religious man) and acts as an extension of the creator; a sort of double or willingness servant. Expressed with IT-language: it can be a positively acting bot or it can be a sort of malwa...