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Martin Gärtner
@mgaertner.bsky.social
Private account of 🇦🇹 diplomat. Love music, poetry, puns and good debate. Views my own. Repost not necessarily endorsement.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Happy to join colleagues of @ambasadaaustrii.bsky.social including Trade and Defense branches for a meeting with the 🇵🇱-🇦🇹 Parliamentary Bilateral Friendship Group at the @kancelariasejmu.bsky.social in Warsaw earlier today. A rich exchange on many issues with lots of follow-up potential.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Walking around #Kraków this afternoon, discovering a quite some richness in colour for this time of the year.
#November
#Listopad
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
November 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
About to start in the Jesuit Church of #Kraków: a lovely programme of #Mozart only: the great symphony in g minor and the requiem….
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
… and the Grande Finale! Awarding #Trakl Prizes to young 🇵🇱 poets (by a very strict jury, Third Prizes only this year), and celebrating the with the truly wonderful #TraklJazzBand! (They ought to get a singer and turn Trakl‘s poetry into their music!)
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Celebrating 🇵🇱 National Independence Day today, together with colleagues of the Consular Corps.
Miłego Dnia Niepodległości!
Pics: thanks to 🇺🇦 Consulate General in #Kraków
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Next #Trakl-Tat event: opening the exhibition on sculptor and #GreatWar #graves’ designer Heinrich #Scholz curated by Agnieszka #Partridge at the #Malopolska Voivodship Library. Shown until 5 Jan 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Last Tuesday, a very moving evening with the Ensemble for Contemporary Music playing the Opera Sketch „Liebesfluch“ on #Trakl by Hans #Kraus-Hübner to a packed #Cricoteka. Well deserved standing ovation!
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Dank an #Österreich-Bibliothek und UJ-Institut für #Germanistik und Nordistik für die Vorführung von „Julius #Madritsch - ein Gerechter unter den Völkern“ von Piotr #Szalsza und den Gästen für die angeregte Diskussion danach!
#Novemberpogrom
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November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Today, Elzbieta #Penderecka was laid to rest at St. Peter and Paul’s church in #Kraków, an almost iconic personality in 🇵🇱 music and cultural life, and also, in 2003, awarded with the Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of 🇦🇹. R.I.P.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Paid our tribute to Georg #Trakl today on the day of his passing, putting flowers to the memorial plaque of his at the #Kraków Military Hospital.
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Yesterday, the „Trakl-Tat“ Festival of Art and Literature started off in #Kraków where Georg #Trakl died today 111 years ago, with a lovely concert including a freshly composed piece on one of Trakl’s poems. For more of the festival’s progamme see (in Polish): fundacjaurwanyfilm.pl/aktualnosci/
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Have a lovely 🇦🇹 National Day today, my fellow Austrians!
If you happen to be in #Kraków, maybe see you for some 🇦🇹 art tonight:

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October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On Tuesday, the #Conrad #Festival invited @danielwisser.bsky.social for a talk on his book about an MS patient, a piece of #radicalhope, indeed. Curious? So it made me. Will get to read „Die Königin der Berge“ as soon as possible.
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Celebrated 🇦🇹 National Day Saturday at #Kraków #Philharmonic, with 🇦🇹Ambassador to 🇵🇱 Hannes #Schreiber and Hazuki #Hirano singing 5 Orchesterlieder by Robert #Nessler on texts by Georg #Trakl as well as the #Alto solo in 9th Symphony by #Beethoven. 30 years 🇦🇹 in the 🇪🇺. 40 years #OdeToJoy 🇪🇺 Anthem.
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Despite rather uncomfortable weather, it was great to see Potok’s #WorldWar I #cemetery so lovingly renovated in comparison to two years ago. Laid wreaths honouring all the fallen together with 🇦🇹 Black Cross and Mayor #Tomkiewicz of #Jedlicze.
October 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Festive inauguration of #Klagenfurt Park (literally „Pocket Garden“) in #Rzeszów today, with mayor Fijołek, and counselor Habenicht - and the only all-girls brass band of Europe. Congratulations!
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Such a wonderful opportunity to not only see some manuscripts by #Mozart at the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social Library, but also have it so richly commented and interpreted by Mozart specialist Prof. #Keefe of @sheffielduni.bsky.social and BJ’s own Dr. Lewicki! Many thanks to BJ Director Prof. Sapa!
August 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thank you, dear Łukasz, for the cordial welcome to the Silesian Museum! Fascinating modern 🇦🇹 architecture (by Riegler Riewe from #Graz) and an institution with lots of potential for partnership and cooperation projects with Austria!
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Welcome to #Kraków to the new US colleague Gretchen Cureton! I look forward to fruitful exchange and co-operation.
August 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Happy Flag Day to all Ukrainians and best of success in the defense against the criminal Russian war of limitless aggression!
🇺🇦 is a beautiful flag, I find it in nature a lot, like here in Namibia, where we spent a good part of summer holidays.
#StandWithUkraine
August 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
On the way home we took a little detour and a look at Łańcut castle, still richly furnished, and with a most beautiful orchid house!
August 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
and on the way back to Lublin the famous tongue twister town of #Szczebrzeszyn. Good luck in pronouncing „W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie“!
August 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
… the cool pine and beech tree forests of #Roztocze National Park around #Zwierzyniec
August 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM