Business & Career
Banking for the People
In the first installment of our new series of how expats built their careers in Vienna, we talked to Maurizio Poletto, the designer behind Erste Bank’s acclaimed banking interface, George. As professional marketers and designers know, digitally savvy millennials are some of the toughest customers out there. As early adopters and influencers, millennials have become […]
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Legal Services in the Age of Globalization
With law firms expanding globally, both opportunities and challenges
arise for the practitionersGlobalization has been a mixe...
Explore Vienna
Vienna’s Public Gardens | Legacy In Green
Austria’s Bundesgärten celebrate a century in bloom
Explore Vienna
Westbahnstraße | West Side Story
Vienna may not be quite as hip as Berlin – though not from lack of trying, as anyone who’s been to Westbahnstraße in the 7th district can attest.
Explore Vienna
Es Gibt Reis | A Holiday on Rice
David Zoklits and André Spitzinger bring Southeast Asian flair to Josefstadt while paying homage to a German comedy legend.For a few years now, th...
Features
Austria’s 2018 Wines | Beating the Heat
The 2018 Austrian wines are defined by last year’s long summer and sweltering temperatures.Like love and moonlight, wine and sunshine go hand in ...
People
Timothy Snyder’s Call to Action
In an age of confusion, historian and author Timothy Snyder looks to the past for a guide to the future of the West.On a pleasant evening in late...
Features
Europe Goes to the Polls
It is a rainy Friday night, and Ulises is sitting with his girlfriend Laura at a winebar at the Naschmarkt in Vienna. Ulisesis from Madrid and La...
How To
How to Grow Up in Vienna
Coming of age in Vienna can be frightening, freeing and exhilarating at the same time - just like growing up.Arriving in Vienna at 14 wa...
Diplomacy
Still Green & Clean?
Austria’s EU presidency met some important environmental goals. Its environmental policies at home, however, do not always stand the test.
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Features
Our Daily Bread
In Vienna, quality baked glossare more accessible than ever before. The challenge for bakers is to keep standards high, while still growing ...
Features
Growing Green Cities
Where Beethoven found inspiration for his Pastoral symphony and Schubert wrote his songs, a new initiative seeks answers to a sustainable future.W...
Features
The Code Makers
Programmers are in high demand. Two Viennese are helping more women to close the digital gap.It’s going on 18:30, but the windows of the...
People
Profile | Natalia Corrales-Diez
Founder, Fund of Excellence, Erste Group“Human capital is the oil of the 21st century. Ten years ago, it was all about big data. Now it’s ...
People
Profile | Herbert Schweiger
Director, Die Wiener Volkshochschulen“When the world is spinning faster than you are, you need help to keep moving forward – so ...
People
Profile | Angela Köppl
Environmental Economist, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)“Even though we were among the first movers towards susta...
People
Profile | David Jandl
Forest Ranger“We’re very proud of the fact that the very concept of ‘sustainability’ originated from forestry.”If a tree falls...
Melange
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.
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Skopik & Lohn | The Golden Middle
Combining elegance and tradition with eclectic elements from world cuisine, Skopik & Lohn brings a casual, cosmopolitan vibe to fine dining.
City Life
6 places to go Horseback Riding in and near Vienna
Vienna is a city that revels in its past. Over the centuries, the clatter of Fiaker plying their trade in the 1st district has never stopped and every...
Explore Vienna
Yori | Korean Debuts & Homecomings
In Yori authentic Korean cuisine takes the stage in Vienna as a veteran proudly looks on.One of my earliest memories as a child is making specia...
Books
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 V...
Books
The Ironies of History
In Éric Vuillard’s award-winning historical novel The Order of the Day, an absurd and tragic encounter seals Austria’s fate.The hour grows late ...
Pro & Con
Pro & Con | March 2019
Open Store PolicyClosing shops on Sunday is so 19th centuryEvery time I welcome someone to Vienna and give them my lis...
Opinion
Growth and Its Discontents
Central Europe has experienced a soaring economy in the last two decades. Yet the disaffection of many shows the limits of what economic gro...
Books
Europe’s Essence
Robert Menasse’s award-winning The Capital is a dark but affectionate satire on the European idea.Robert Menasse has long been preoccupied with th...
Books
Metropole Events | Spring 2019
BOOK PRESENTATION | From Empire to RepublicIt’s been 100 years since the Habsburg Empire dissolved into several new, independe...
News
News Monitor
European Elections AheadWhen an entire continent goes to the polls, we should pay attention to what people have to say. From May...
News
News Monitor
Trouble in LederhosenAll the ingredients for a slow news day story were there: a much-loved local showbiz star, Nazi-accusations and some ...
News
News Monitor
WRONG SKILLS OR WRONG SKIN?“No one has to live out their days in Rohrbach,” headlined the daily Der Standard (06.02.19). How the...
Culture
Challenging Conservatism
Christophe Slagmuylder, the new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen, presents his first program.
Art
Back from Oblivion
Vienna’s female artists get some long overdue time in the limelight at the Lower Belvedere.Three women gaze down from the wall: One in a red dre...
Cover Stories
Austrian Business Knows No Bounds
Engines in India, cable cars in La Paz, logistics on the Silk Road – Austrian technology and exports are at an all-time high.
Spring 2019
Crossroads by the Sea
The Adriatic’s window to Mitteleuropa, Trieste flares with Viennese charm and Italian flavor.Vienna, for all its charms, does lack one thing: a se...
Online
“You’re a Young Guy” | Kurz Meets Trump
Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz described his meeting with United States president Donald Trump Wednesday as “very disputatious” in an interview wi...
Spring 2019
Spring 2019 | Growth
Hothouse Vienna where people and ideas flourishour spring issue is all about growth in Vienna and Austria – personal, economical, entrepreneurial....
Online
All resident EU Citizens can vote for these Austrian Candidates
Your Voice in the EUWith a lot of heated campaigning buzzing around its ears, the European Union's parliament elections are set to take place in M...
Culture
Culture Streaming | Our Top 5 Picks to Watch in February
The holiday season may be over, but winter is not – so bundle up on the sofa! There’s a mix of great shows and movies coming up.SITCOM
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Online
Good Friday… Or is it?
The European Court of Justice ruled (January 22nd) that Austria is guilty of discrimination on the grounds of religion, as under the county’s law, Go...
