Becoming a self-taught wine writer is easily more fun than covering city hall or the sewer district. Still, as my articles on local wines and vintners accumulated, all written after a pleasant day cruising one of Austria’s charming wine regions, …
Full of mini-mountains and Lilliput farmsteads, the Südsteiermark
is Austria’s most unlikely wine growing region and well worth the trip.
Full of mini-mountains and Lilliput farmsteads, the Südsteiermark is Austria’s most unlikely wine growing region and well worth the trip.
After 300 years of independent reporting, the world’s oldest newspaper is likely to fall victim to EU digital democracy.
Austria is no more corrupt than other European countries – although possibly more colorful. But the consequences for wrongdoers are often laughably mild. This may be changing.
A government minister resigns in disgrace. But the bigger scandal is the value of Austrian universities’ degrees.
“The Light that Failed: A Reckoning” by IWM fellow Ivan Krastev and NYU professor Stephen
Holmes explains what went wrong with Western liberalism.
As the city prepares to go to the polls, the streets are plastered with party propaganda posters. Michael Ludwig will almost certainly remain mayor, but his potential partners are pitching for a piece of power.
The Kahlenberg Church stands where an allied army gathered at dawn September 12, 1683 before sweeping down from the hills to break the Turkish siege of Vienna. Today it is both a cause for celebration and a rallying point for dubious arch-conservative fringe groups.
The annual Wine Salon in Palais Coburg presented a tough jury’s selection of the best of the current year. The setting was magnificent, the wines too.
A financial pillar of Burgenland had been running on fictional business for years. The inevitable came in August, as the fraudster confessed. Now, auditors and authorities are busy pointing fingers.
Yale professor Frank Snowden’s sweeping analysis of pandemics over the centuries concludes that while science advances, people do not.
The worldwide Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has now spilled over onto the supermarket shelves. A look at Austria’s own racially problematic icons.
Ubiquitous multinational retailers have flattened the quirky individuality of the world’s great cities. Stadt Wien is pushing back. A little anyway.
The Corona crisis granted a political ceasefire. As the emergency recedes, partisan sniping is back on the agenda, but this time, with C-19 serving as ammunition.
Conspiracy theories bloom in a climate of death, doom and destruction. The Corona crisis has brought forth a particularly poisonous crop.
A year ago the infamous video was released: it showed the then Vice-Chancellor H-C Strache promising lucrative state contracts for other favors. What was at first a political embarrassment has now sparked a broader corruption investigation.
Wolfgang Siemann draws on newly discovered notes and letters to paint a more nuanced portrait of diplomat and statesman Klemens von Metternich.
The SPÖ Party leader risked everything on a vote of confidence – and won. Then the sniping began.
After guiding the Austrian Wine Marketing Board (ÖWM) through 15 successful years, Willi Klinger has returned to selling wines from all over at up-market retailer Wein & Co
It comes as no surprise that there is a patron saint to protect us from plagues: Her name, however, does: it is St. Corona.
Jobs continue to bleed at the Opel plant in Aspern, but the City’s political and economic clout may help to ease the pain.
Philipp Blom sets out to demonstrate how rapid climate change can dramatically upset our social and economic structures, our everyday lives. It has happened before, in 17th century Europe. Historians are rarely content just to chronicle facts; they look for …
The MAK honors Koloman Moser influential and abundant body of work “Koloman Moser Universalkünstler” proclaims the publicity by the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) for their current exhibition; whether the boyish-looking designer saw himself as such, we may never know. …
The OSCE in Vienna monitors elections around the world. Its report on the US midterms found the elections to be just as fair as those in the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia It may seem arrogant for an organization operating out …
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] The Viennese love their white wines young and fresh. Winemakers in Gols would prefer to wait.
The Bundesheer is the nation’s stepchild, unloved and underfed. But it is a respected international player and may have found its new role.
Beamter: Check out any decent dictionary and it will show a string of translations – official, clerk, functionary, civil servant etc. – none of which do justice to the soul of that mystical creature, the Austrian bureaucrat
The recently published diaries of Sunset Boulevard screenwriter Charles Brackett, on Hollywood and the half-mad world of Viennese émigré director Billy Wilder
Even the color is iconic: “Pantone rose” is a registered trademark for Austria’s signature snack – Manner Schnitten, the pink block of hazelnut cream wafers on the country’s candy shelves, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s legendary power food.
Steinhof is a Wiener Melange of health and history and now the city adds housing to the mix.
Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier Period documents a rising middle class and its search for its own aesthetic
Film stills as drama suspended, art as advertisement: Even if you’ve never seen the movie, chances are you know the image
Graham Greene’s The Third Man: An iconic portrait of gloom and corruption in Austria’s postwar capital
Chef Denis König of Le Salzgries: The brasserie reloaded – a French treat for your special guests
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