Vienna-Based IPI’s Barbara Trionfi Addresses Nobel Press Freedom Celebrations
The director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute shared the stage for the awarding of the first Peace Prize for journalism since 1935.
The Heuriger Tradition: Four of the Best
Unique to Austria, traditional wine taverns serve each year’s new vintage with a simple buffet, amid the timeless pleasures of convivial conversation among friends. Many are excellent. Here are four of the best Heuriger in and around Vienna to try.
Marjorie Perloff – An Alternative Language of Modernism
From The Vienna Paradox to The Edge of Irony, the distinguished literary critic and professor emerita examines the seminal literature and thought of Austria’s interwar period.
LieblingsFisch – Shop Plump Trout and Bouillabaisse in the Leopoldstadt
Finding good fish to cook at home just got a lot easier. A new stand on the Karmelitermarkt is a good place to go.
Austrian Insiders Arrested for Aiding Flight of Wirecard COO
Vienna police have taken a former
FPÖ MP and BVT-security head in custody for assisting the escape of Jan Marsalek, mastermind of one of Europe’s greatest postwar financial scandals.
The Lore and Legend Behind the Viennese Kaffeehaus
A myth, a tradition, but most of all a very real place that many in the Austrian capital cannot imagine life without.
Death in Vienna
Some Viennese may play down any special relationship with death. But, then again, it’s probably better not to take any chances…
Historian Philipp Blom – “The Machine Can Be Stopped.”
On the Enlightenment’s mixed legacy, European solidarity and lessons of the pandemic.
Frederick Baker, in Memoriam
The Austro-British filmmaker stretched the boundaries of documentary and film technique, exploring interactive storytelling and the application of virtual reality to the experience of art.
Ewald Nowotny on the EU Post-Pandemic
The pandemic could be the making of the EU, says the former ÖNB governor. On coronabonds,” the “frugal four” and the clever Mrs. Merkel.
Swimming Across Town | The Danube Canal (Re)opens to the Public
A cooperation between the Kunsthaus and the urban design project Schimmverein Donaukanal hopes to persuade the public of the pleasures on their doorstep.
Christo in Vienna
A chance encounter with Christo and Jeanne Claude, the artists who once planned to wrap up one of Vienna’s Flakturm in a giant gauze.
Austria, the Making of a Republic
On April 27, 1945, the Austrian Proclamation of Independence was signed and promulgated in the liberated city of Vienna. Today, Austrians celebrate 75 years of their Republic, a free, democratic and open country in the middle of Europe.
Donald Tusk’s Clear Voice
Welcoming to Scotland, the perennial European is not about to leave the political stage.
Klimt Portrait Passes the Test
The famed Austrian painter’s recently recovered “Portrait of a Woman” is confirmed as the one stolen from an Italian museum over two decades ago.
Pro & Con | Winter 2019
The Still of the Night by Dardis McNamee Some come to Vienna wishing it were Rome or Madrid, bistro nights in Trestevere, or partying on the Barrio de Las Letras. Vienna’s so quiet. Where’s the action? The answer is, underground, or on the …
Silvia Frieser & New York’s Viennese Opera Ball
Silvia Frieser and the Viennese Opera Ball in New York
Relearning Excellence | A Post-PISA response
There was a time when the Vienna school system was among the most respected in Europe. Current PISA results are far from that
Complete Smoking Ban | In Defense of Choice
The Wirtschaftskammer’s, champion of separate smoking areas, still thinks this was the better way to go.
Opinion | Brigitte Bierlein – Cleaning up After the Men
Come the hour, come the woman. Leading the interim government was going to be a tough gig, but she was ready.
Heumarkt | Stopped for Now
Under pressure from Federal Culture Minister Gernot Blümel, Vienna’s controversial Heumarkt project was suddenly called off late Sunday (Mar 17), delayed for at least two years, pending further discussion and possible redesign. The decision followed a stinging memorandum Friday (Mar …
Coffeehouse Diaspora
In A Rich Brew, Shachar Pinsker makes a convincing case for the role of cafés in fostering a golden age of Jewish culture. In any guidebook about Vienna, the Kaffeehaus holds a place of honor, a sort of people’s club, …
Get the Hang of Wiener Schmäh
Schmäh may not be the first thing you notice when you arrive in Vienna. But it comes up soon enough In school, for example: My children were astonished to discover that copying from classmates (“das Abschreiben”) was business as usual …
Dining on the Danube at the Scenic Ufertaverne
At the Ufertaverne of the Hofbauer Segelschule, great food and wine is only half the draw
Book Review | “The Marshall Plan Since 1947” Recalls America’s Role in Post WWII Europe
70 years later, the Marshall Plan remains a model for foreign aid policy in everybody’s interest.
The Education of Viktor Orban
In “Orban: Europe’s New Strongman” Paul Lendvai tracks the ambition of the increasingly authoritarian Hungarian prime minister.
Opinion | To Sunday or not to Sunday
Retail stores in Austria still stay closed on Sundays, but the benefits outweigh the inconveniences
Books | In Black Vienna Janek Wassermann Shows the Radical Right’s Interwar Takeover of the City
Janek Wasserman takes a closer look at conservative discontent in Red Vienna during the interwar period
Opinion | The Controversial Heumarkt Project Endangers Vienna’s UNESCO World Heritage Status and Skyline
Vienna has traded their skyline to improve the Wiener Eislaufverein and other public spaces in the area. But at what cost?
What Lies Ahead for Café-Restaurant Cobenzl
Charm is an elusive quality, a mix of beauty, setting, an appeal to the heart. Something precious. Even in Vienna, it should never be taken for granted.
How to be a Diplomat
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] The ultimate dream jobs in public service take patience, persistence and good language skills. If you’re lucky, you even get to save the world
Opinion | (Fake) News of the World
How a small number of young eastern Europeans have managed to influence U.S politics
Once More, with Feeling
With contributions pouring in, Alexander Van der Bellen is out to win the Hofburg – again – and help set the tone for Europe’s future
How to…Keep your culture
Being an expat in Vienna doesn’t necessarily mean turning your back on all things home
Book Review: Theater of Modernity
With a fascinating cast of characters, Philipp Blom’s engaging history of the inter-war years stages the glories and agonies of these troubled times.
Book Review: Taking the Waters
David Clay Large’s engaging history: The Grand Spas of Central Europe
