MOJ BEČ: DRAGAN VELIKIĆ MY VIENNA: DRAGAN VELIKIĆ METROPOLA S RITMOM BANJE METROPOLIS WITH A SPA’S RHYTHM
O Beču kao jednom od najzdravijih gradova sveta, o instituciji bečkog kafea i tragovima srpskih književnika...
On Vienna as one of the world’s healthiest cities, on the institution of Viennese cafés and the footsteps of Serbian writers...
Tekst / Words: Dragan Velikić Fotografije / Photography: Đorđe Kojadinović, Getty images, Profimedia.rs, iStock
Dragan Velikić je srpski pisac,
dvostruki dobitnik Ninove nagrade, za romane Ruski prozor i Islednik . Od 2005. do 2009. bio je ambasador Srbije i Crne Gore, odnosno Srbije u Austriji Dragan Velikić is a Serbian writer and twice winner of the NIN Award, for the novels ‘The Russian Window’ and ‘Coroner’. From 2005 to 2009 he served as ambassador of the State Union of Serbia & Montenegro, then the Republic of Serbia, to Austria.
B eč sam upoznao početkom devedesetih godina prošlog veka vozeći se tramvajima do poslednjih stanica, tamo gde kapilari periferijskih ulica nesta- ju u zelenilu. Grad se najbolje ispituje bez unapred zadatog plana, naravno, ukoliko postoji luksuz neograničenog slobodnog vremena. Bečki kafe je institucija koja se opire zapadnoevropskim standardi- ma. Samo u starim bečkim kafeima i kafanama serviraće vam uz kafu i ča- šu vode bez obzira na to da li ste je po- ručili ili ne. Možete satima sedeti uz kapuciner i čitati novine, niko vas ne- će uznemiravati. Uostalom, najviše je
I became familiar with Vienna in the ear- ly 1990s by travelling on trams to their final stations, where the capillaries of peripheral streets disappear into green- ery. The city is best explored without a pre- determined plan, of course, provided you have the luxury of unlimited leisure time. The Viennese café is an institution that defies Western European standards. It is only in Vienna’s old cafés and taverns that you will be served a glass of water along- side your coffee, regardless of whether or not you ordered one. You can sit for hours beside a cappuccino reading newspapers and nobody will disturb you. Among oth- er things, most have tables with only one or two chairs. Here there are occasional
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