May 2016
An Incubator for Innovation: How Vienna can make great ideas bigger faster
How To
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 Bureaucracy is a high art in Austria. Imported, no doubt, with the “red tape” that bound court documents in 16th-century Habsburg Spain, and centralized in the 18th under Maria Theresia to hold her far-flung empire […]
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Business & Career
Business & Career: Austrian Startup Founders and Their Heroes
We asked twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystemGiven how recent the startup scene is in Austria, there’s...
Film
On Screen: Independence Days – VIS Film Festival
Vienna Independent Shorts celebrates stylish strokes of avant-garde cinemaIn this age of shortened attention spans, when smartphones are streami...
May 2016
On Music: Winner Takes All
Austrian band contests and the next generation in pursuit of the big stageby Benjamin Kubaczek & Cynthia Peck “Competitions are...
May 2016
On the Vine: Viva VieVinum – Wine Festival
Austria’s international wine festival uncorkedImagine throngs of winemakers cramped shoulder to shoulder, vying for the attention of thirsty dri...
May 2016
On Sale: Light My Way
For indoors and out, Austrian companies have come up with simple solutions for our everyday needs, at home and on the moveWith technology advanc...
Film
On Screen: The Lady in the Van
Maggie Smith brings Alan Bennett’s touching memoir to lifeDescribing itself as a “mostly true” story (more on that later), The Lady in the Van d...
Grätzl
Hofburg | Downtown Empire
The Viennese can be a tad formal at times: strings of titles, hand kissing, fancy dress. But when you’ve had the Hofburg down the street for some 750...
Books
Books: Rebirth of the Rustbelt – The Smartest Places on Earth
How yesterday’s industrial graveyards are turning into today’s hotbeds of innovationAkron and Albany, Dresden and Eindhoven, Oulo and Portland –...
Cover Stories
Cover Story: A Culture of Innovation
Austria often looks to America’s can-do approach to business, but can it foster its own forward-leaning climate while still preserving its heritage?...
Business & Career
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 ...
May 2016
Editorial: Suckers of Silicon Valley
We need to stop lionizing start-up businesses simply because we like rooting for the underdog; the Davids over the Goliaths. Being an entrepreneu...
May 2016
On Stage: Wiener Festwochen – Welcoming a World of Drama
The Wiener Festwochen bring the bleeding edge in theaterby Michael Bernstein & Dardis McNamee Vienna is a city of theaters – th...
International
International: Innovation in Eastern Europe – Rupture, Risk And the Quiet Life
Shattering upheavals have left Central and Eastern Europe longing for calm, but a disruptive new generation is looking towards innovationThere h...
May 2016
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 fr...
May 2016
On Tonight: Pratersauna – In Nomine Party
The prominent Pratersauna nightclub reopens after renovationThe rumor mill was abuzz: Last month, Martin Ho, the Dots Group entrepreneur, se...
May 2016
On the Road: Thayatal – The Forgotten Valley
Once a Cold War no-man’s-land, the Thayatal national park is now a restored oasis of calm and natural beautySitting atop a mossy bluff overlooki...
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...
Art
On Display: The Future Has Arrived
At the Kunsthalle, The Promise of Total Automation imagines the shape of things to comeAn intriguing attempt to parse the possible futures heade...
Art
On Display: Talks – Tracking the Fakes
Expert Jane Kallir puts Egon Schiele’s works under the microscopeThere’s nothing like a good art forgery scandal to get the blood flowing: beaut...
May 2016
Op-Ed: The SPÖ’s Family Feud
Austria’s refugee crisis has not only polarized the political landscape, it has split the country’s ruling party right down the middle
As every seas...
May 2016
Letters to the Editor – May
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May 2016
On Music: Eurovision 2016
This year’s Europop fiesta has the The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre… and The AustraliansBest known as the launch pad of ABBA, the European Broadca...
May 2016
On Music: Donaukanaltreiben
The popular urban happening celebrates a decade on Vienna’s inner-city waterwayOriginally set in motion by Martin Staudinger in 2007, the free f...
May 2016
Science & Technology: Einstein, Lasers And Supermirrors
In the Austrian success story of gravitational waves, detecting something tiny can be a huge leap forwardOn February 11, 2016, the last of Alber...
Blog
Editor’s Letter – May
We were fighting an uphill battle. No one was being paid and there was a constant state of upbeat panic. When we founded Metropole, it seemed like the...
May 2016
Editorial: Can’t Take a Joke
With each attempt to strong-arm the media, Turkish President Erdogan only confirms his vulnerabilityTurkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ha...
Film
On Screen: Money Monster
Jodie Foster directs this fairy tale for the Great RecessionUnfolding in real time, Money Monster features George Clooney as Lee Gates, a smug, ...
Film
On Screen: Retrospective – Pre-Code Hollywood
The Filmmuseum presents the heady days before censorshipTinseltown ran wild for a few short years between the advent of “talkies” and the imple...
May 2016
Be My Guest: Lisa Rauchbüchl – Hidden Kitchen
The communications graduate ensures that Hidden Kitchen is far from a secretIn the highly competitive world of Viennese lunch cantines, Hidden K...
May 2016
Rollercoaster – Running Sushi Goes Theme Park
The wacky restaurant Rollercoaster throws your food for a loopThere’s a sudden silence hanging above the train for a few brief moments as passenger...
City Life
City Life: The Lost Property Office – Temporary Spaces for Innovation in Vienna
Abandoned offices and storefronts in Vienna provide affordable temporary space for creative urban innovationWithout human activity a city’s surf...
