October 2016
Teach Me!Learning today and how our education defines us.
Event Cooperation
Out There – TEDx Vienna explores the edge
TEDx Vienna returns, exploring profound ideas from deep caves to outer space. Vienna, Oct 22, 2016 – The sun was shining and the anticipation was palpable, TEDx Vienna was happening again! Those in line were grateful for the volunteers handing out breakfast refreshments as we waited for our turn to get into the Volkstheater. This […]
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Culture
Metropole’s Top Ten Viennale Picks
Let Metropole help you choose the right course in the Viennale film feastWith 300 features, shorts and documentaries shown over a mere two weeks...
October 2016
WIN-WIN-WIN!!! Election History Quiz
Do the slogans and quips from U.S. elections stand up to the test of time? Test your meme-ory!This election has seen its fill of wacky catchphra...
October 2016
Just (Hold Your Nose And) Do It!
The U.S. presidential election is nigh. Many American citizens living abroad are scrambling to get their absentee ballots and mail them on time. But i...
Blog
Metropole First Anniversary: A Look Back
Metropole celebrates its first anniversary!
Since Metropole first hit the newsstands in October 2015, our small but tireless team of editors, designe...
Blog
Why Reading and Writing in Two Languages is Important
What are the circumstances which determine whether or not a language will develop fully in bilingual children? A look into the chances and opportuniti...
Expanding Your Circle of Friends as an Expat in Vienna
How to accumulate an international circle in Vienna
If you've been living in Vienna as an expat for quite some time, you might've noticed that the Vi...
Cover Stories
Beautiful Minds
If our education decides our future, what happens to upward mobility and equal opportunity?A democracy depends on citizens knowing what they are v...
Business & Career
Leading the Crazy Ones
The creative industries need to be ever-fresh. Michael Conrad of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership talks about what it takes to create like a b...
Science & Technology
Vienna, a Scientist’s Paradise
The city that brought forth Wittgenstein, Freud and Schrödinger, Vienna is again a hotbed of ideas and scientific research.When refugee scientists ...
Science & Technology
From Lab Coats to Pinstripes
Academia and business don’t mix? A group of Austrians set out to bridge the gap, and business is booming.
Great ideas are born in the laboratories, c...
International
Ditch the Textbooks
The Holy Trinity of a formal education is classroom, exam, diploma. This model is being challenged all over the world.Ten-year-old Mohammed sits c...
Sport
Austria’s Hobby Tennis Tour
You don't have to be a seeded pro to participate in Austria's organized tennis tournaments.
There are plenty of things I should be worrying about. Th...
Nightlife
No Costume, No Candy
Some holiday traditions are lost in translation.Stuck in the polyester tights of my questionably short Marie Antoinette costume, I contemplated ...
Books
A Family Affair
Barry G. Gale brings high-brow rigor to a low-brow subject in Love in Vienna: The Sigmund Freud - Minna Bernays Affair.As Barry G. Gale admits i...
People
Kindling the Flame – Claudia Garád
On our path to a knowledge society, understanding the world around us is ever more important.We might use them every day, but few of us stop to ...
Restaurants
Burger Joint – I did it my way
Le Burger throws out convention and leaves it all up to you.A walk down Mariahilfer Straße is like life in fast-forward. Businesses shut down an...
Grätzl
Esterhazypark – In the Shadow of History
Just a block below Mariahilfer Straße, commerce gives way to side streets full of trendy bars, galleries, clubs and restaurants, anchored by a park wi...
People
Kindling the Flame – Ali Mahlodji
On our path to a knowledge society, understanding the world around us is ever more important.On any given day, 50 to 60 people vie for Ali Mahlo...
People
Hermann Fankhauser – Designer and Teacher
One half of the design team behind Wendy&Jim and Professor at the Academy of Applied Arts, Hermann Fankhauser stole some time on his flight from P...
Blog
Forever Learning
Life lessonsOne of my earliest memories is something my father said. I was having a tantrum after a fight with a classmate. “She’s just stup...
Blog
A Letter from Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
The Financial Times just ranked the WU’s Masters Degree in International Management among the top 10 management programs worldwideWe asked WU dire...
International
The Power of the Expat Vote
For American citizens overseas, doing your civic duty is easier than you think: Cast an absentee ballot!The impact of absentee voting was made...
Out of Town
Holiday on the Farm
Connect with nature while unplugging from city life... but leave enough time to milk the cows.We talk about our dream of country life, walking...
Blog
Coworking for Grown-Ups
The Austrian corporate real estate giant IMMOFINANZ has just released a new office concept myhive. It has the services and amenities of a hotel, infra...
People
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...
Sport
Love-All – The Erste Bank Open
The tennis aristocracy comes to Vienna for the Erste Bank Open tournament.The Erste Bank Open has a tradition of attracting a high-quality f...
People
Kindling the Flame – Lutz-Helmut Schön
On our path to a knowledged society, understanding the world around us is ever more important.When asked what he does for a living, Lutz-Helmut ...
Opinion
Education in Post-Communist CEE
What is the best role for government in higher education, hands-on or off the table?It might seem strange that a generation after the fall of th...
Stage
Beguiled by the Bird-Catcher
The Raimund Theater sets the stage for Emanuel Schikaneder, legendary writer of The Magic Flute.Every year, the day after the famed Opera Ball s...
Music
Catch Saxophonist Candy Dulfer on Her Europe 2016 Tour
The Dutch jazz institution brings a fresh and funky injection of sax-appeal.Propelled to global stardom in the early 1990s with her break out debu...
Art
Artist Martin Kippenberger, Enjoying One Last Laugh
Germany’s jocular anti-traditionalist genius returns to Vienna posthumously.Widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of the late...
Restaurants
Four-Course Travelogue
Dine and drink your way around the globe at Blue Mustard.A self-proclaimed resto-bar (a pastiche of restaurant and bar), Blue Mustard joined Vie...
Stage
Social Satire Der Menschenfeind at the Volkstheater
A modern take on Molière’s baroque human comedy.Widely regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy in Western literature, Molière’s s...
October 2016
Teaching Thinkers
A revolution in school reform – finally!Austria’s new Education Minister Sonja Hammerschmid had barely taken office before she began ruffling fe...
City Life
Beltway Insiders
The Gürtel is a hot spot for live music with no neighbors.On any given Saturday night, this stretch of pavement flanked by busy roads under the...
People
Kindling the Flame – Melisa Erkurt
On our path to a knowledge society, understanding the world around us is ever more important.Fleeing the chaos of Bosnia in the 1990s and arrivi...
Books
Unbridled Learning
With schools and universities starting again, Benedict Carey’s How We Learn is the right guide for getting your brain in full swing.
Learning is a sl...
The Stories We Wear
For 650 years, these walls have seen fashion come and go. We take a look into where today’s styles found their origins.Creative Direction
Ali...
How To
Keep Learning
We can’t stop ourselves from learning, so why not do it on purpose?Human beings never stop learning. Not only are we a...
Film
Join the Horror Movie Marathon!
The golden age of horror comes back... from the dead!It was 1931 when horror film legend Bela Lugosi donned Dracula’s soon-to-be signature cape an...
Stage
Nazi Superhumans Are Superior to All of You
Time-traveling master racists demonstrate The Horror of the Ordinary in this anarchic theater project.Keeping it surreal since 1997, the perform...
Film
Viennale – the New, the Old and the Remade
The international film festival beckons with new films from celebrated auteurs, international gems, intriguing documentaries and Christopher Walken.
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Art
Spot-On Masterpieces
The Albertina pin-points Pointillism’s meticulously methodical mark-making.Georges Seurat once insisted that, although some saw poetry in his pa...
Opinion
Learning by Wearing
Thoughts from our expert on design, gadgets and joie de vivre.I remember the day I discovered that clothing told a story. It was in a dusty room...
Film
Egon Schiele – Portrait of the Artist
Egon Schiele – Death and the Maiden paints a picture of flawed genius.It’s always challenging to portray a beloved historical figure. Striking a b...
October 2016
Brands with a Conscience
Indulge in some ethical consumerism with our selection for this month's favorite things.Travels, Toys, Thoughts, and Threads to Widen Your Horizon...
Blog
Reader Feedback | October 2016
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Opinion
Humanities and Human Resources
The implicit social contract of higher education bringing higher wages is compromised, with “overqualification” and underemployment a graduate’s night...
Recipes
Mamta Mahto – Prosi Indian Restaurant
Bringing authentic South Indian flavor to Vienna“Eighty percent of all Indian restaurants in Vienna are North Indian,” chef Mamta Mahto of the P...
Art
Shunga: Erotic Art from Japan
One of the foremost collections of erotic art from the floating world makes waves in Vienna.Despite countless attempts by officials to prohibit ...
Music
Slam Poet Saul Williams
The New York slam poet breaks back into the hip-hop scene.An alternative hip-hop icon since acquiring the title of Nuyorican Poets Cafe's Grand ...
Wine
Braving the Storms
With foul weather affecting the vintage, this year is a rough one for Austrian wine.This year will not be remembered fondly by Austrian winemake...
Music
Elysium and the Death of Socrates
Ernst Krenek’s opera Pallas Athene weint: A musical megaphone for our political times.Does music amplify the uproar of the world around us, or d...
News
Quotes, Stats & Numbers | Education
Here's an overview of stats and numbers from month's Metropole, all about education.
