Thank you very much to the Austrian colleagues for providing the rare book world with such an adventure on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs - A mixture between bookish flashmob and speed dating for booklovers - Across the World!
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Showing posts with label Vienna. Show all posts
4/23/2016
1 pm, Vienna, Austria - THE FINAL TOUR OF THE GIANT FERRIS WHEEL
Finally, it is getting crowded in the Giant Ferris Wheel. People enjoy the unique opportunity of a high-flying book presentation over the roofs of Vienna with wonderful books and beautiful views of the Austrian capital.
Thank you very much to the Austrian colleagues for providing the rare book world with such an adventure on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
Thank you very much to the Austrian colleagues for providing the rare book world with such an adventure on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
11.15 am, Vienna, Austria - BOOKISH HIGHLIGHTS OF A HIGH-FLYING POP UP FAIR
The first tour on the Giant Ferris Wheel is over. The booksellers and their guests are back on firm ground and right now preparing for the next start. Domenico Jacono, Dr. Paul Kainbacher, Clemens Paulusch and Peter Truppe are arranging their books, maps and prints for a second round on the Giant Ferris Wheel.
I wish I could be there. It must be amazing!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers
I wish I could be there. It must be amazing!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers
10 am, Vienna, Austria - HIGH-FLYING BOOK PRESENTATION IN THE GIANT FERRIS WHEEL
Definitely one of the highlights of the day. In a few minutes the Austrian antiquarian booksellers will take booklovers on a spectacular tour in the Giant Ferris Wheel of the world-famous Prater. What a way to celebrate the ILAB Pop Up Celebrations on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016!
The Giant Ferris Wheel is Vienna at its best. Built in 1897 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I., a circular trip on one of the most significant and fascinating steel constructions worldwide with a unique view of the city of Vienna, is an absolute cultural and architectural must for every visitor to Austria's capital. So if you haven't taken a ride on the Giant Ferris Wheel and enjoyed the breathtaking views over the roofs of Vienna, this is your once in a lifetime experience.
Have a look at the video and follow the invitation of Dr. Paul Kainbacher and his colleagues!
And who knows who will be sitting in the wheel cabin next to you? A Viennese woman like Marie Kindl who hung herself outside a cabin during a ride on a rope she held between her teeth in the year 1898? Madame Solange d`Atalide, a late 19th century horsewoman sitting on a horse on the roof of one of the cabins? Or, maybe, Orson Welles' Third Man meeting Holly Martins aka Joseph Cotton and listening to the famous zither tunes by Anton Karas ...
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers
The Giant Ferris Wheel is Vienna at its best. Built in 1897 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I., a circular trip on one of the most significant and fascinating steel constructions worldwide with a unique view of the city of Vienna, is an absolute cultural and architectural must for every visitor to Austria's capital. So if you haven't taken a ride on the Giant Ferris Wheel and enjoyed the breathtaking views over the roofs of Vienna, this is your once in a lifetime experience.
Have a look at the video and follow the invitation of Dr. Paul Kainbacher and his colleagues!
And who knows who will be sitting in the wheel cabin next to you? A Viennese woman like Marie Kindl who hung herself outside a cabin during a ride on a rope she held between her teeth in the year 1898? Madame Solange d`Atalide, a late 19th century horsewoman sitting on a horse on the roof of one of the cabins? Or, maybe, Orson Welles' Third Man meeting Holly Martins aka Joseph Cotton and listening to the famous zither tunes by Anton Karas ...
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers
4/18/2016
AUSTRIAN BOOKSELLERS LAUNCH THE ILAB POP UP WEEK
BIBLIOPHILE EVENING AT DR. PAUL KAINBACHER RARE BOOKS
Last Saturday, the “heart of literacy” lay in Baden, next to Vienna. Dr. Paul Kainbacher launched the ILAB Pop Up Week in his antiquarian bookshop with a Bibliophile Evening dedicated to rare books on the history and exploration of Africa. The elegant rooms were crowded with books and visitors who enjoyed the lectures given by Walter Sauer and Martin Peter Pfitscher, both renowned authors and leading experts from the University of Vienna. Walter Sauer, Professor of Economic and Social History, compared Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” with the experiences of Austrian travelers to Central Africa, while Martin Peter Pfitscher, specialist in Ethnology, took the visitors on a photographic tour to Africa seen through the lense of author, adventurer and photographer Oscar Baumann.
Paul Kainbacher closed the Bibliophile Evening with a presentation of rare travel accounts and vintage photographs, and with a fundraising to support the excellent work of UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI) in South Sudan.
It was an inspiring evening on the history of Africa to help built a better life for the African children in the future and a perfect start into the week leading up to the ILAB Pop Up Celebrations on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day – from Australia to Asia, South Africa, all over Europe and the United States, on Saturday, 23 April 2016.
Help fill the Empty Bookcases for the children in South Sudan! Each symbolic spine fixed at a symbolic Bookcase Poster at an ILAB Pop Up Event sends one book to a child in South Sudan. A donation of $ 15 purchases a set of 12 books for a classroom, $ 500 purchases 45 sets for a rural community!
JOIN US ... ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIRS ... ACROSS THE WORLD ... ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY ... 23 APRIL 2016!
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FOLLOW US LIVE ON 23 APRIL!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, Dr. Paul Kainbacher
Last Saturday, the “heart of literacy” lay in Baden, next to Vienna. Dr. Paul Kainbacher launched the ILAB Pop Up Week in his antiquarian bookshop with a Bibliophile Evening dedicated to rare books on the history and exploration of Africa. The elegant rooms were crowded with books and visitors who enjoyed the lectures given by Walter Sauer and Martin Peter Pfitscher, both renowned authors and leading experts from the University of Vienna. Walter Sauer, Professor of Economic and Social History, compared Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” with the experiences of Austrian travelers to Central Africa, while Martin Peter Pfitscher, specialist in Ethnology, took the visitors on a photographic tour to Africa seen through the lense of author, adventurer and photographer Oscar Baumann.
Paul Kainbacher closed the Bibliophile Evening with a presentation of rare travel accounts and vintage photographs, and with a fundraising to support the excellent work of UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI) in South Sudan.
It was an inspiring evening on the history of Africa to help built a better life for the African children in the future and a perfect start into the week leading up to the ILAB Pop Up Celebrations on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day – from Australia to Asia, South Africa, all over Europe and the United States, on Saturday, 23 April 2016.
Help fill the Empty Bookcases for the children in South Sudan! Each symbolic spine fixed at a symbolic Bookcase Poster at an ILAB Pop Up Event sends one book to a child in South Sudan. A donation of $ 15 purchases a set of 12 books for a classroom, $ 500 purchases 45 sets for a rural community!
JOIN US ... ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIRS ... ACROSS THE WORLD ... ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY ... 23 APRIL 2016!
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FOLLOW US LIVE ON 23 APRIL!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, Dr. Paul Kainbacher
4/12/2016
ABEBOOKS BLOGGERS VISIT THE ILAB POP UP FAIRS IN VIENNA AND CHICAGO!
THE ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIRS ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY IN THE PRESS:
"April 23 is going to be another special day for booklovers. UNESCO’s 2016 World Book & Copyright Day will feature book-related events on a worldwide scale with ILAB’s contribution being a series of pop-up book fairs displaying rare and collectable books from the four corners of the Earth.
ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) is repeating a successful programme introduced in 2015 on World Book Day that put rare books in front of thousands of people. Last year ILAB activities raised more than 10,000 Euros for UNESCO’s Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), which provides literacy assistance to children in South Sudan.
This year’s series of pop-up book fairs is promising to be even better. They stretch from Australia to the United States and from the United Kingdom to Russia, and numerous other European countries."
Read the full stories here:
> Celebrate UNESCO’s 2016 World Book & Copyright Day with ILAB’s Pop-up Book Fairs
> ILAB’s 2016 Chicago pop-up fair to grace Glessner House
> Twelve ILAB Booksellers at Chicago’s Historical “Millionaires’ Row. ILAB Pop Up Book Fair on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2016
> A high-flying book presentation in Vienna on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2016
We are looking forward to read the reports and to see the pictures on 23 April 2016!
"April 23 is going to be another special day for booklovers. UNESCO’s 2016 World Book & Copyright Day will feature book-related events on a worldwide scale with ILAB’s contribution being a series of pop-up book fairs displaying rare and collectable books from the four corners of the Earth.
ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) is repeating a successful programme introduced in 2015 on World Book Day that put rare books in front of thousands of people. Last year ILAB activities raised more than 10,000 Euros for UNESCO’s Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), which provides literacy assistance to children in South Sudan.
This year’s series of pop-up book fairs is promising to be even better. They stretch from Australia to the United States and from the United Kingdom to Russia, and numerous other European countries."
Read the full stories here:
> Celebrate UNESCO’s 2016 World Book & Copyright Day with ILAB’s Pop-up Book Fairs
> ILAB’s 2016 Chicago pop-up fair to grace Glessner House
> Twelve ILAB Booksellers at Chicago’s Historical “Millionaires’ Row. ILAB Pop Up Book Fair on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2016
> A high-flying book presentation in Vienna on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April 2016
We are looking forward to read the reports and to see the pictures on 23 April 2016!
3/02/2016
POP UP IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY, APRIL 23, 2016
THE "HEART OF DARKNESS" ...
… lies next to Vienna at Dr. Paul Kainbacher Rare Books on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016. With a Bibliophile Evening dedicated to lectures and books on travel and exploration from Austria into the world the Austrian antiquarian booksellers will launch the ILAB Pop Up Week on 16 April 2016, from 5 to 7 pm. Paul Kainbacher invites colleagues and collectors to his bookshop in Baden (Vienna), where Walter Sauer and Martin Peter Pfitscher of the University of Vienna will talk about famous 19th century travels of Austrian adventurers to Africa. Joseph Conrad’s well-known novel “Heart of Darkness” leads directly into Central Africa during the time of the Belgian colonization. Walter Sauer, Professor of Economic and Social History, compares Conrad’s stories with the experiences of Austrians, who travelled to Central Africa or lived there at that time. By chance, the Vienna born explorer Oscar Baumann became a photographer in 1892 through a generous gift: he was given a Kodak camera which enabled him to take pictures of the country and the people he met on his travels in search of the source of the Nile, and later during his time as an ambassador in Sansibar. In the second lecture, Martin Peter Pfitscher, specialist in Ethnology, will show Africa through the lense of Oscar Baumann, while Paul Kainbacher will close the Bibliophile Evening with a book presentation and a fundraising to support the great work of UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI) in South Sudan.
A HIGH-FLYING BOOK PRESENTATION ...
… in the Giant Ferris Wheel of the world-famous Prater will be the next step in the ILAB Pop Up Celebrations in Vienna on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016 – certainly one of the ultimate highlights of the day. The Giant Ferris Wheel is Vienna at its best. Built in 1897 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I., a circular trip on one of the most significant and fascinating steel constructions worldwide with a unique view of the city of Vienna, is an absolute cultural and architectural must for every visitor to Austria's capital. So if you haven't taken a ride on the Giant Ferris Wheel and enjoyed the breathtaking views over the roofs of Vienna, this is your once in a lifetime experience.
On 23 April, from 10 am to noon, the members of the Austrian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association will take you on a trip high above Vienna while offering rare and fine books in one of the wheel cabins and raising money to buy school books for the children in South Sudan.
And who knows who will be sitting in the wheel cabin next to you? A Viennese woman like Marie Kindl who hung herself outside a cabin during a ride on a rope she held between her teeth in the year 1898? Madame Solange d`Atalide, a late 19th century horsewoman sitting on a horse on the roof of one of the cabins? Or, maybe, Orson Welles' Third Man meeting Holly Martins aka Joseph Cotton and listening to the famous zither tunes by Anton Karas ...
JOIN US ... ORGANIZE IT ... ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIRS ... ACROSS THE WORLD ... ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK & COPYRIGHT DAY ... 23 APRIL 2016!
March 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers, www.wienerriesenrad.com/de
… lies next to Vienna at Dr. Paul Kainbacher Rare Books on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016. With a Bibliophile Evening dedicated to lectures and books on travel and exploration from Austria into the world the Austrian antiquarian booksellers will launch the ILAB Pop Up Week on 16 April 2016, from 5 to 7 pm. Paul Kainbacher invites colleagues and collectors to his bookshop in Baden (Vienna), where Walter Sauer and Martin Peter Pfitscher of the University of Vienna will talk about famous 19th century travels of Austrian adventurers to Africa. Joseph Conrad’s well-known novel “Heart of Darkness” leads directly into Central Africa during the time of the Belgian colonization. Walter Sauer, Professor of Economic and Social History, compares Conrad’s stories with the experiences of Austrians, who travelled to Central Africa or lived there at that time. By chance, the Vienna born explorer Oscar Baumann became a photographer in 1892 through a generous gift: he was given a Kodak camera which enabled him to take pictures of the country and the people he met on his travels in search of the source of the Nile, and later during his time as an ambassador in Sansibar. In the second lecture, Martin Peter Pfitscher, specialist in Ethnology, will show Africa through the lense of Oscar Baumann, while Paul Kainbacher will close the Bibliophile Evening with a book presentation and a fundraising to support the great work of UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI) in South Sudan.
A HIGH-FLYING BOOK PRESENTATION ...
… in the Giant Ferris Wheel of the world-famous Prater will be the next step in the ILAB Pop Up Celebrations in Vienna on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016 – certainly one of the ultimate highlights of the day. The Giant Ferris Wheel is Vienna at its best. Built in 1897 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I., a circular trip on one of the most significant and fascinating steel constructions worldwide with a unique view of the city of Vienna, is an absolute cultural and architectural must for every visitor to Austria's capital. So if you haven't taken a ride on the Giant Ferris Wheel and enjoyed the breathtaking views over the roofs of Vienna, this is your once in a lifetime experience.
On 23 April, from 10 am to noon, the members of the Austrian Antiquarian Booksellers' Association will take you on a trip high above Vienna while offering rare and fine books in one of the wheel cabins and raising money to buy school books for the children in South Sudan.
And who knows who will be sitting in the wheel cabin next to you? A Viennese woman like Marie Kindl who hung herself outside a cabin during a ride on a rope she held between her teeth in the year 1898? Madame Solange d`Atalide, a late 19th century horsewoman sitting on a horse on the roof of one of the cabins? Or, maybe, Orson Welles' Third Man meeting Holly Martins aka Joseph Cotton and listening to the famous zither tunes by Anton Karas ...
March 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the Organizers, www.wienerriesenrad.com/de
4/23/2015
6 pm, Vienna - Speed dating for booklovers at the new Literature Museum. Part 2
The Viennese antiquarian booksellers are breaking all records. A busy place with lots of visitors and the most ILAB Pop Up Book Fair pictures shot on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2015!
6 pm, Vienna - Speed dating for booklovers at the new Literature Museum. Part 1
It’s 6 pm in Germany, I have been blogging for 14 hours, and the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day is not yet finished. The Mexican Wave from Australia to Tokyo, Moscow, Cape Town, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, London moves forward to Vienna, Munich, Königstein and Paris, where right now, the next ILAB Pop Up Fairs are beginning.
At the Literature Museum, which opened a few days before, the Viennese antiquarian booksellers are welcoming their guests.
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At the Literature Museum, which opened a few days before, the Viennese antiquarian booksellers are welcoming their guests.
10.50 am, Vienna – ILAB on top of the Austrian capital!
A year ago, it was ILAB President Norbert Donhofer’s idea that ILAB should take part in the worldwide celebrations on UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. Now, on 23 April 2015 from noon to 3 pm the ILAB Pop Up Book Fair at Norbert Donhofer Rare Books on top of Vienna will be one of over 30 worldwide ILAB events on that day!
Everything has been prepared for the ILAB Pop Up at Norbert Donhofer’s new office – Taborstrasse 64/Top 18!
And even more: His son Matthias has already donated 50 € for schoolbooks given by UNESCO to South Sudan! Very many thanks to the ILAB President and his son for hosting such an amazing event on top of Vienna!
Everything has been prepared for the ILAB Pop Up at Norbert Donhofer’s new office – Taborstrasse 64/Top 18!
And even more: His son Matthias has already donated 50 € for schoolbooks given by UNESCO to South Sudan! Very many thanks to the ILAB President and his son for hosting such an amazing event on top of Vienna!
Thank you very much, Matthias, for your generous donation!
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