zagreb

Zagreb's museum of broken relationships: ‘Break-up stories universal from Philippines to Croatia’

As valentine’s day looms, Olinka Vištica, 42, and her ex-boyfriend Dražen Grubišić celebrate the power of a split. They stored their relationship mementos in a museum in Zagreb along with other donated objects from former lovers in 2007, toured the exhibition through Europe and scooped the European museum award 2011 for the most innovative concept

by Katharina Kloss @ // 14/02/12

zagreb, love, dublin, valentine's day, relationships, culture calendar, culture

Ivana Simic Bodrozic and co: more women on Croatia literary scene

The Zagreb-based poet and writer's coming-of-age drama Hotel Zagorje is the theme of a literary event in Paris. Though her debut novel stays true to a tradition in contemporary Croatian fiction, the 29-year-old gets her audience in a flurry with the book's themes of war, women, the past and an inevitable future together

by sladana perkovic @ , Nabeelah Shabbir @ // 05/12/11

zagreb, candidate countries, war, yugoslavia, death, children, balkans

Unravelling the Zagreb web

Contrary to our expectations of a post-war, post-Yugoslav capital, Zagreb looks like a puffy cream cake. The typical Balkan cliché doesn’t strike the eye right away. It is not for nothing that Croatia is a favorite for membership in the European union, having reached 30 of the 35 'negotiation chapters'. 23 May saw EU enlargement to this potential 28th state going on behind closed Brussels doors, but Zagreb has been producing its own critical tones too. Its ladies go for the 'western model' and its LGBT rights record pips it ahead of its Serbian neighbour. The Balkan idyll is cobbled together despite Croatia's status as having the youngest history of war and existing neighbour policy conflicts. Scratch the surface and this deteriorates. Citizens first raged the streets in February against corruption scandals and a bad economic climate. Changes here happened too quickly and in too short a time for this city to grow 'adult'. Read the articles from our French-German-Serbian-Bulgarian team who report from Croatia's capital in the framework of our special edition, Orient Express Reporter (Image: (cc) lern/ Flickr)

• Read the special edition Unravelling the Zagreb web
• Croatia’s writers and playwrights: no post-war no-hopers
• Is gay OK in catholic Croatia?
• Zagreb’s Miss Independents
• Croatian writer Olja Savicevic: 'We have never lived in a normal society'
• My Zagreb Vitriol: remembering Croatia’s anti-government protests