Smart City Vienna
From San Diego to Copenhagen, from Vienna to Singapore, everybody wants to become a smart city. But how do you upgrade the world’s most livable city?
Living in Vienna
Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?
Smart cities claim to improve the lives, productivity and eco-balance of their citizens. A new collection of essays questions whether the vision lives up to the promise
Boundless Wanderlust
In seeing the world in all its delicate beauty and overwhelming roughness, Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas of an Anxious Man finds a language for mapping the intricacies of the human heart
The Last Word: Thomas Drozda
Austria has a new chancellor and with him comes a new minister. Thomas Drozda is in charge of Arts and Culture, and while he is new to the job, we asked him about the international outlook.
Sharon Booth | Dancer, Reloaded
We met Sharon Booth, an inpirational Canadian-born, Juilliard-educated dancer who found her way to Vienna, now teaching contemporary dance at the Staatsoper
Books: Cultural Geotagging
Doing business with people from different cultural backgrounds can be tricky. Understanding them is the first step to making it work
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 art world’s gatekeepers
Books: Brave New Data-Smart World
E-readers may be an innovative, eco-friendly alternative to pulp. But are publishers now looking over your shoulder while you read?
How to…Minimize Your Carbon Footprint
Want to go greener? Be like a Wiener! An introduction to the eco-friendly habits of the Viennese and how to minimize your carbon footprint.
On Display: Wilhelm Lehmbruck
The influential sculptor gets his first major retrospective in Austria
Business & Career: We Are What We Eat
As industrial farming comes under attack, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) hopes to change the game
Pioneers Festival 2016 Live
This year’s 5th Anniversary Edition of the Pioneers Festival is taking place at the Hofburg on the 24 & 25 of May. Featuring 5 stages with over 100 hours of hand-crafted content, 500 startups, and 2500 pioneers, founders, executives, investors …
My Disruptive Hero: Bianca Gfrei ☞ Hansi Hansmann
In our May issue, we teamed up with AustrianStartups to ask twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystem.
My Disruptive Hero: Frederik Debong ☞ Florian Motlik
In our May issue, we teamed up with AustrianStartups to ask twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystem.
7 German Words That Will Piss Off Austrians
Don’t you dare ask an Austrian for a “Brötchen” with a “Wiener.” You might end up with a Schlag.
How to…Fund Your Startup
Navigating your startup safely through Austria’s bureaucracy is tricky. Fortunately, a multitude of subsidies can give you a strong tailwind
Business & Career: Austrian Startup Founders and Their Heroes
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We asked twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystem
Books: Rebirth of the Rustbelt – The Smartest Places on Earth
How yesterday’s industrial graveyards are turning into today’s hotbeds of innovation
Profiles: The Unicorn Makers
Startups can’t do it on their own. We met some of the people who give Austrian entrepreneurs the support they need, through technical know-how, state funding, angel investment, or mentoring
The Last Word: The Honorable Alexa Wesner
The U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Alexa Wesner has been supporting the Austrian startup community since she took office in 2013. Her commitment stems from her own experience as a serial entrepreneur. We asked her what she thinks are the most …
A Culture of Innovation
Austria often looks to America’s can-do approach to business innovation, but can it foster its own forward-leaning climate while still preserving its heritage?
Seven Myths About Vienna’s Public Transport
The “House Rules” of Vienna’s public transport system (Wiener Linien) are posted throughout every station train car and bus – in English, too. You’ve probably passed them by or seen them posted on a tram a hundred times, but have …
On Being Pwned by Robo Wunderkind
As we sat down to work this morning, a loud shout of “Oh My God!!!” lifted all of our yet-to-be over-caffeinated heads simultaneously. “Robo Wunderkind just got bought out by Lego for $120 million!” our colleague yelled after reading this …
How to…Keep your culture
Being an expat in Vienna doesn’t necessarily mean turning your back on all things home
Book Review: Mapping Genius
Eric Weiner traces how time, place, background and clutter figure into the settings where genius is born.
Business & Career: Robotics for Children – Easy as ABC
Viennese startup Robo Technologies turns children, or anyone, into robotics engineers
Book Review: Language Shock
Understanding requires much more than merely speaking the same language. It’s the culture that matters.
Five Less Famous (but still brilliant) Irish Poets That You Should Probably Know About
Adomnan was born in 524 and in addition to being an Abbot, hagiographer, a keen traveler and the friend of kings, this guy also managed to find time for poetry writing. The pieces attributed to Adomnan were written in Gaelic …
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How to…Invest like an Austrian
Austrians are notoriously risk-averse and have been big fans of savings accounts, but how do they invest?
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?
Vienna Transport Guide
A Guide to Getting Around In Vienna While New Yorkers are perennially confronted with the question of whether it’s faster to walk, grab a cab or take the subway, Viennese have it easy: in most cases, public transport wins hands …
How to…Invest like an Austrian
Austrians are notoriously risk-averse and have been big fans of savings accounts, but how do they invest?
Book Review: Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea
On 300 dense pages the Scottish political economist Mark Blyth delivers a ringing battle cry to change course – or else.
Science & Technology: No Country for Old Economists
The Austrian school of economic thought shapes financial policy the world over – but remains unpopular in its land of origin
Book Review: The Real John Le Carré
A new biography by Adam Sisman deciphers the coded life of novelist David Cornwell
Business & Career: The Sweet Success of Zotter Chocolate
The Austrian chocolate maker Zotter puts social responsibility before maximum return and demonstrates that short-term profits and sustainable long-term growth are not mutually exclusive
Set In Vienna: Books
When you ask for a list of books set in Vienna, Graham Green’s The Third Man will likely be the first one people suggest. Granted, Green’s screenplay, and subsequent film, remain essential to cinema history, The Third Man doesn’t officially …
Voting in Britain’s EU Referendum for British Expats in Austria
At the 2015 UK General Election, almost 106,000 overseas electors registered to vote – three times the number at the previous election. While this is a real improvement, it is still a fraction of the 5.5 million UK citizens estimated …
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Expats
We’ve all been that expat. The one frantically looking up the fine print of their contract while wondering just how much it would cost to throw in the towel and fly home tomorrow. We get it: homesickness is a very …
Business & Career: The Oil of the 21st Century
It took four years for the EU’s twenty-eight member states to pass the new law on data protection. Now companies are bracing themselves for high stakes and citizens hoping for more control.
Book Review: “A Poem on Every Page” – Joseph Roth’s Hotel Years
A master of the feuilleton, the author’s virtuosity is on full display on every page of this collection of newspaper essays about people and politics in Europe in the 1920s and 30s
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: Everything Austrian, Statistically and Graphically
Few questions are left unanswered in the pictograms and statistics collected in these two volumes.
Yes, Uke Can! Ukulele Meetup in Vienna
The Wiener Ukulele Stammtisch brings amateur ukulele players together every month for an informal strum-and-sing meetup
Book Review: Art Against the Odds
Peter Vergo’s re-issued “Art in Vienna, 1898-1918,” recounts the fitful birth of the Modern
Book Review: Is Eastern Europe’s Lack of Solidarity the Legacy of 1989?
Anna Porter’s The Ghosts of Europe shows different paths to transition and the continuing identity crisis
Book Review: Taking the Waters
David Clay Large’s engaging history: The Grand Spas of Central Europe
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 lawyers
How to be a Bohemian in Vienna
Getting connected and funded as a foreign artist – with a little help from City Hall
