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"Kitchen talk" Part 1 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz “There will come the day we have forgotten to remember how the revolt started and the names of the ones who had to carry the weight of others' guilt. Many will say nobody was guilty and that it was the coronavirus which ruined first the life of the weak middle class and worsened the suffering of the poor, before the revolt was started almost as a natural reflex to the greed of the ones who ruled discreetly from a shadowy network over power and money. The mass of people was breathless from the disease, the grief of the high amount of deaths made them hopeless, and the downfall couldn't be stopped early enough. The people’s situation turned with new working conditions into a degraded status of mainly short-time employees with diminished rights and such a low income that the living costs couldn't be covered. When it was hard to afford living before the p...

Series 'Bourgeois Desires' by Karin Sawetz Part 5: 'The interrogation' Part 4: ' Woke up!' 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 .   "Which political party would be a problem for you, Mr. Hofrat?" asks the woman in the interrogation room where she has to face the accusations of the Hofrat.  "None. I can continue my work (he laughs) under any possible constellation. "  "Too bad. I would need a decision-making aid where I should make a cross in a few days," laughs the policewoman's wife.  "You'll soon be laughing on the other side of your face."  "Not as long as I look at you, Mr. Hofrat, and thinking of y...

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...