Michael Bernstein

I translated (from an original German manuscript) this book about how state-of.the-art, dynamic LED-illumination technologies can be applied in museums and galleries. The author, Andrea Graser, is an architect and CEO and chief designer of the architecture and lighting design firm Studio Okular in Vienna, Austria. The book was produced by the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

ISBN: 9783035627053
Author: Andrea Graser
Published by: Birkhäuser
Publication date: 6 June 2023
224 pages, with illustrations

Original articles based on research and interviews for STRG.at, a Vienna-based software developer.

A profile about Leonard Bernstein's relationship to his adopted city of Vienna, Austria -- how this musical icon’s love for the city of Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler helped him overcome Austria’s Nazi past.

An article I wrote for METROPOLE - VIENNA IN ENGLISH (summer 2021 issue) about Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- the artificial-intelligence technology that fuels today’s translation, speech recognition and virtual assistant software.

German-to-English translation of essay by Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, "Trends in der Geschichtsschreibung über die Salzburger Festspiele seit 1945," published in the Salzburg Museum's exhibition catalogue for the 100th anniversary of the Salzburg Festival.

I co-authored this GUIDE TO EDUCATION IN VIENNA, a English-language manual for parents and students and a comprehensive explanation of the Austrian public and private education system.
https://www.amazon.de/Vienna-Survival-Education-Michael-Bernstein/dp/320006532X

For this print guide to the local housing market, targeted to English-speaking Expats in Vienna, Austria, I researched and wrote the chapters on renting and the neighborhood guide.
https://www.amazon.de/Vienna-Survival-Guide-Housing-Teodora/dp/3200057823

Leonard Bernstein's historic concerts in Germany in May 1948 marked a turning point in his future relationship with the former Nazi countries. In addition to conducting at the Opera in Munich, he conducted a chamber orchestra made up of Holocaust survivors -- "Displaced Persons" still awaiting emigration visas. 70 years later, the families of the musicians are reunited at an anniversary concert in Landsberg am Lech.

An article I wrote about Vienna, Austria's beloved hourly hotel, the Hotel Orient. It appeared in the February 2016 print issue of the magazine and was SEO-optimized for online publication.
"Discretion and privacy are paramount at the Hotel Orient – Vienna’s time-honored institution of lust and debauchery."

An article about data science and its development into one of the hottest fields of study.

For many, the 21st century buzzword “Big Data” conjures up fears of “Big Brother,” the personified surveillance state of 1984. Many of us have grown utterly dependent upon digital technologies that feed “the cloud” with a constant stream of our personal data – the digital traces of everything we consume, communicate and believe.

During the Corona virus quarantine (April 2020), I conceived and edited this social-media video of my band using each member's individually filmed clips synchronised to an audio track we recorded live in concert.

I created and edited this simple video of Viennese leather wares manufacturer Robert Horn demonstrating his replica of Thomas Mann's briefcase. The video is shown on his company's e-commerce website, rhorns.com, which I created and for which I produced all the content.

“Auf Wiedersehen,” to an Austrian, is not the same as “goodbye.” The words appear to mean the same thing, but in actual practice they are very different. In the streets, the Viennese may be short-spoken. But beware when you meet them in private, then they won't let you leave without further adieu!

An Expat muses on the virtues of fresh air – and explains why, after 17 years in Vienna, he wears a scarf to the supermarket when he visits the States.

On the joys of open-air ice skating on the rarely frozen River Danube