Rainer Nowak
Since 2012 Editor in Chief and since 2014 Publisher of the Austrian daily Die Presse. He grew up in Vienna’s 9th district and has received several journalism prizes throughout his career.
Kurz and Austria Rising
The Austrian chancellor as a mixture of Hitler and Mozart on the cover of Newsweek. Please relax! Leni Riefenstahl, the director and scriptwriter of Nazi art and moviemaking, must have been hired as picture editor at the US magazine Newsweek. Austria’s federal chancellor was pictured on the cover of the once globally relevant magazine with […]
Expat’s Voice | The Future is Female
Three women now head the parties of the opposition. A small revolution for Austria Sometimes reality overtakes prophecy. Christian Kern was quicker with his resignation than was predicted in this column in the last issue of Metropole. His paradoxical intervention has surprised friends and enemies. He wants to be the Spitzenkandidat (lead candidate) of the […]
(No) Pity for Christian Kern
Why the SPĂ– leader rides his bike, has some enemies and is not to be envied.
Let’s call it a really bad losing streak, not a personal failure. The SPÖ leader and Chancellor Christian Kern, who wa...
The Sebastian Kurz Show
They love him or they hate him: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is more notorious across Europe than most of his predecessors. Now he is taking over the EU presidency. This will be interesting. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky once formulated the beautiful phrase, “You have no idea how much praise I can handle.” While this may […]
Expat’s Voice: Hipster Politics and the Reds Up in Arms
Why Vienna’s city government has completely reorganized itself and what it has to do with the FPĂ–, expats and international managers It is an interesting but characteristic phenomenon. The government of red Vienna – once known as the worldwide socialist model for the introduction of municipal social services, Gemeindebauten (social housing) and the redistribution from […]
