Lower Styria News Today

Several events have been held in Slovenia in recent days to mark Rudolf Maister Day, a public holiday in memory of the general who established the first Slovenian army in modern history and secured what later became Slovenia's northern border.

. Last week, Critical State took a deep dive into research on how states difficulties with extending power into borderlands changes how they make and implement policies for those areas. This week looks at research on what happens when a state makes a major effort to incorporate borderland residents into the core state identity.  During World War II, Nazi Germany added much of the land around Germany to its Reich. The idea that the concept of Germanness extended beyond the geographical bounds o...

Exhibition sets out to provide a first-ever survey of the creative work of Styrian women artists Installation view "Ladies First!“, 2020. Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek. GRAZ .- The exhibition Ladies First! is the first time that the Neue Galerie Graz has taken a closer look exclusively at the art production of women in Styria. At the heart of the show lie the works and life-stories of some 60 well-known – and a few lesser-known – women artists from the period 1850 to 1950. It wa...