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Andrew Standen-Raz
Following studies in Anthropology at UCL, Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Law at Loyola, Andrew worked for Miramax Films, 20th Century Fox Studios, and won two awards as a public relations counsel at Ruder Finn. After seeing the US political system from the inside while working for the VOA at a Democratic & a Republican political convention, Andrew returned to Europe to make documentary films, including "Vinyl: Tales from the Vienna Underground", which premiered at Karlovy Vary. He is currently curating for a film festival, developing new film projects, and developing an organic food app
Opinion
During the Corona Crisis, a Fiat Can Become a Critical Food Pipeline
COVID-induced creative charity or how the boot of a Fiat became a critical food pipeline.
Culture
This Year’s Wiener Festwochen Exposes 21st Century Ills, But Offers Solutions, Too
Canceled or moved online in the age of Corona, the program of this year’s Wiener Festwochen seemed surprisingly prescient.
Science & Technology
Take Two Quavers…
… and call me in the morning.
Can neuroscience prove that music soothes some of our biggest ailments?
City Life
City Life: Solutions for the Age of Adaptation
At a Vienna Design Week-sponsored event earlier this year, panelists discussed “the direction in which toilet trends will flush us and how w...
Features
My Life as a Game
In an increasingly gamified world, it matters who controls your character.
Film
F for Film
The 56th Viennale promises a more international direction under its first female head
In 1991, Philippe Petit, infamous for tightrope walking betwe...
Art
Revealing Spaces
At the Architekturzentrum Wien, the exhibits are just the tip of the iceberg.
If you can’t make it to Kannikegården this month to see Lundgaard &...
September 2018
The Sociable City
Conversations with Viennese architects reveal the secrets to creating a liveable city.
“Everything is Architecture,” wrote the Pritzker prize-win...
Food & Drink
The Future of Meat | Impossible Burgers, Bioreactors and the Real Cost of Cheap Protein
To the late chef Anthony Bourdain, “Life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is not a life worth livi...
Art
What Do Refugees Take With Them? The Wien Museum’s Fluchtspuren Exhibit Has Answers
The exhibition What Remains: Traces of Refugees (Fluchtspuren) leaves its mark with a few personal objects
Size isn’t everything, especially when y...
Stage
Fear and Loathing at the Wiener Festwochen
This year’s Wiener Festwochen deliver soothing magic for a world on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
What compels some of us to seek out provocative...
Science & Technology
Art Ex Machina | When AI Enters the Studio
As robots and AI pervade our living rooms and workplaces, will they also hold the mirror up to our lives?
How To
How to Get Involved in Politics in Austria
How do you make your voice heard in a country that is not entirely your own?
Politics often seems like a cross between a telenovela and a car c...
Art
In Heimat:Machen, the Volkskundemuseum Confronts its own Role in Shaping National Identity
The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the present
Thanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...
Opinion
Opinion | Will you be Replaced by a Robot Soon?
Can we control the spread of AI and robots into every aspect of our lives?
Sophia has been granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia; she h...
Cover Story
The Good Life is as Easy to Define as Love or Justice
Why Vienna tops the rankings of the world’s most livable cities is about attitude as much as anything
For the mild-mannered “Zettlpoet” H...
City Life
Why you Should go to Vienna Design Week
Vienna's Design Week is a feast of ideas that reveal the many ways design enhances our lives
Given any traveler’s willingness to pay for charm, i...
Art
“How to Live Together” at the Kunsthalle Wien is a Guide for Better World
A new group show at the Kunsthalle encourages us to shed our preconceptions and love the things that set us apart.
The tempting possibility of a ...
Stage
How the Wiener Festwochen are Breaking all the Rules in 2017
The Wiener Festwochen push the envelope with a new co-director setting the tone
Being voted “most-livable” city can be a double-edged sword. Ever...
Adrenaline Junkies – Austria’s Obsession With Extreme Sports and How It Changes Us
How Austria's taming the rush of death-defying adrenaline highs condition us to be more resilient.
In just one tenth of a second your brain goes ...
Opinion
The Time I Found out Just How Great the Austrian Health System Is
Medical Meanderings: From dodgy diagnostics in the U.K. to a tree-filled quad in the Alpine Republic. A tale of two cities.
When a sympathetic...
Special Report
Will Chancellor Christian Kern’s “Plan A” Tame the Refugee Problem?
Or does Kern's new narrative play into the hands of the populists?
There have been no bombs in Austrian cities. There are no policemen in body ...
International
Austrians Promote Social Entrepreneurship in Africa
Two Austrian-led organizations ask whether social entrepreneurs in Africa can combat the world’s “wicked problems” any better than development NGOs
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Stage
Franz Grillparzer’s Medea
The Volkstheater tackles the original woman scorned in Franz Grillparzer’s Medea
How do you create empathy for a mother who murders her children?...
Film
Nadiv Molcho’s First Feature Film, The History of Now
Nadiv Molcho – the young actor, director and member of the NENI clan – is used to defying naysayers. His first feature film is The History of Now
Th...
Work
The Undeclared Economy
How does Austria deal with Europe’s estimated €1 trillion shadow economy of black-market crime, petty tax evasion and corporate profit shifting?
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Opinion
Opinion | The Luxury of Home
When the chips are down, how does a top-rated city give shelter to those who have lost everything?
Recessions remind us that home is a luxury, the li...
Stage
A War of Words – Molière’s Misanthrope
The archetypal angry middle-aged male splutters to life in Molière’s Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope)
Our current love affair with the instant...
Education in Modern Times – Beautiful Minds
If our education decides our future, what happens to upward mobility and equal opportunity?
A democracy depends on citizens knowing what they are v...
Art
On Display: Calle Libre – Living Walls
The Calle Libre Festival turns urban walls into galleries
When Jakob Kattner looks around Vienna, he doesn’t see the historic architecture that ...
Business
Business & Career: Beyond the White Cube
How young, savvy art producers bring new talent directly to the public by exploiting new spaces, technology and social media, thereby sidestepping the...
Film
On Screen: Lights, Camera, Sacher – Behind the Scenes
ORF has the entire city wondering about the new big-budget mini-series filming at the Hotel Sacher
Crossing the street from the Vienna State Oper...
Business
Business & Career: We Are What We Eat
As industrial farming comes under attack, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) hopes to change the game
Revolution is the new black. Every pilla...
Bars and Nightlife
On Tonight: Pratersauna – In Nomine Party
The prominent Pratersauna nightclub reopens after renovation
The rumor mill was abuzz: Last month, Martin Ho, the Dots Group entrepreneur, se...
City Life
City Life: The Lost Property Office – Temporary Spaces for Innovation in Vienna
Abandoned offices and storefronts in Vienna provide affordable temporary space for creative urban innovation
Without human activity a city’s surf...
April 2016
On Stage: English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus
Two Pints of Theatre & a Packet of Crisps:
English Mondays promise a provocative brew of cutting edge theatre
English is made for the stage....
February 2016
How to…be a Data-Savvy Spy
Fear of Big-Data snoops sifting through your chat history, photo streams, and following your private trips across town?
Greta Garbo understood ab...
March 2016
Grätzl: Weißgerberviertel – Art on the Riverside
My Home is My Grätzl
This month: the Weißgerberviertel in Vienna's 3rd district
One sunny weekend in February, I set off with two friends to exp...
Cover Story
Private Lives
From the internet to the bedroom, Austrians care about – and protect – the personal sphere. It’s a cultural thing.
On a cold, grey day in January...
December/January 2015/2016
Scenes of Vienna: Politics Killed the Radio Star
Citizens and celebrities gather at the ORF Radiokulturhaus to mourn and protest the passing of an era.
Early in Spring, Das Ohr, the four-meter h...
Business
Business & Career: Behind the Gallery Walls
In staging their signature shows, Vienna’s art exhibitors navigate an opaque world filled with secretive collectors, oligarchs and layers of fancy law...
December/January 2015/2016
Profiles: The Artist is Present
The importance of art depends on what society makes of it. Four pillars of Vienna’s art scene told us how they – a museum director, a curator, a galle...
People
The Train of Hope: Organized Chaos at the Encampment on the Gürtel
Picture: © Christopher Klettermayer
Part II
You sense the Train of Hope camp even before you see it. Exiting the underground into the train stat...
City Life
City Life: The Kindness of Strangers
With tens of thousands of asylum seekers overwhelming public institutions, couples like Skye and Zoltan Kiss are opening their homes
Skye and Zol...
News
Scenes of Vienna: Boarding the Train of Hope
“Three people in one room want to commit suicide? Stay cool.” What keeps everyone going is the sense of humanity.
You sense the Train of Hope cam...
People
The Train of Hope: Among the Refugees at Vienna’s Hauptbahnhof
Picture: ©Christopher Klettermayer
Part I
It started with a post on Facebook, Martina Barwitzki told me. It was her friend Julian: Some refugees...
Art
On Display: Ego, Curator
The language of remixing our world is shifting: programmers, selectors, managers, organizers and producers are all making way for curators.
Curat...
