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Meet Gerhard Hirczi, Vienna’s Head Hunter
No stranger to challenges, the general manager of the Vienna Business Agency, Gerhard Hirczi is placing the city’s assets front and center.
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Fall 2019
The Good Life by Design | Interview with Vienna’s Mayor Michael Ludwig
Mayor Michael Ludwig shares the secret to Vienna’s top ranking for smarts and livability: Planning with people in mind by Margaret Childs.
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For Love of the Game
At a gaming café outside Vienna, Monika Racek, the CEO of the Admiral Casinos and Entertainment AG talks addiction, legislation and why old ladies pla...
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The Vienna Stock Exchange | A Piefke Takes Stock
The CEO of the Vienna Stock Exchange, Christoph Boschan, on financial literacy, sharing the wealth and north German Gemütlichkeit.
December/January 2018/2019
Michael Haider | Culture Club Austria
The new director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York on diversity, connecting artists and putting discovery over instruction.
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Otto Jaus | The Bright Side of Bleakness
Pop star and comic Otto Jaus waxes poetic about fame, being funny and attempts to define the many meanings of the word Schmäh.
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Martin Foussek & Thomas Niss of Own Austria are Making Everyday Investors
With the platform Own Austria, founders Martin Foussek and Thomas Niss aim to help people make better investments through trust and familiarity
Few A...
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Wolf Prix | The Deconstructed Architect
We spoke to Wolf Prix, one of the founders of the Deconstructivist movement.
At Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf Prix’s 5th district Architecture studio, the ...
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Sohyi Kim | When Kim Isn’t Cooking
Vienna’s legendary chef Sohyi Kim about learning on the job, never being satisfied and why she can’t stand salmon.When guests go to Sohyi Kim’s ...
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Markus Kreisel | Emulating Elon? A Tale of Electric Entrepreneurship in Austria
One of three brothers, Markus Kreisel is at the forefront of innovation in e-mobility and energy solutions – in the Mühlviertel, of all places....
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Legendary Light Artist Waltraut Cooper at Cafe Landtmann
Light artist Waltraut Cooper’s installations have broken ground for decades. We spoke about digitizing the UN, the Biennale and world peace.He...
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Heinz Fischer and his Post-Presidential Life
For Heinz Fischer, loving his country means caring about peacekeeping, education and reviving the lessons of history.Not many people know wher...
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An Interview with Maria Großbauer, the Youngest-Ever Director of the Opera Ball
Maria Großbauer, Vienna’s youngest-ever Opera Ball director on sugarcoated memories, the importance of storytelling and why debutantes should wear t...
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An Interview with Founder and Head of Stella Models, Roberta Manganelli
Roberta Manganelli, founder and head of Stella Models talks about Vienna’s 70s flair, the art/fashion balance and how being Italian in Austr...
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Why City Council Renate Brauner Doesn’t Believe in the American Dream
Executive City Councillor Renate Brauner on living well, quotas for women, and why the American dream is nonsensePeople notice when she ...
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Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on Design for the Neo-Biedermeier age
MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularityEvery...
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Marion Payr is Austria’s travel-blogging Instagram Pioneer Lady Venom
Austrian Marion Payr talked to editor-in-chief Margaret Childs on the evolving world of social media, trends in travel and why Vienna is the...
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A Drink with Julian Wiehl, Editor-in-Chief of Vangardist Magazine
Julian Wiehl is the mind behind Vienna’s “progressive men’s magazine”, Vangardist, showcasing the savoir vivre of the gay communityIn 2015, Va...
May 2017
How Hermann Hauser Gets Lucky in Deep Tech
We spoke to the Austrian-born serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Hermann Hauser about betting on the market, reading a team and digging into...
March 2017
AMS Chief Johannes Kopf on Dream Jobs, Minimum Income and the Threat of Protectionsm
The head of Austria’s Public Employment Service (AMS), Johannes Kopf on the Chancellor’s Plan A employment ideas and why careers are like trees...
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Oliver Rathkolb | The Historian and the Intelligence Paradox
We met with Cold War expert Oliver Rathkolb to talk about the city’s spy-filled past and how it’s impossible to keep a secret in ViennaIt’s ha...
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Norbert Kettner | Ambassador to Vienna’s Vacationists
The general manager of the Vienna Tourist Board, Norbert Kettner, shared his plans for “reputation management” and coined our new favorite phrase: L...
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Herrmann Nitsch | Life Lessons from an Anarchist
The controversial performance artist Hermann Nitsch invited us to visit in Prinzendorf to discuss art, nature, death and wine“In art you don’t h...
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Buse Özgöde | AIESEC’s Do-Gooder
Vice President of the Austrian National Board at AIESEC, Buse Özgöde tells us how international education changed her perspective – and the directio...
July/August 2016
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 Staa...
June 2016
Stephan Sicars | An Aficionado with a Cause
We met Stephan Sicars, Director of the Environmental Branch of UNIDO, at Café Wortner, an old-school coffee house on a cobblestone corner of the 4th d...
May 2016
Patrick Lamb | Funny Man & Virtual Virgin
We met British comedian Patrick Lamb at vrei, a virtual reality lounge in the 7th to talk about comedy, the Viennese and his hood in Hernals“Nop...
