October 2016 | Metropole

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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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The Editors - October 27, 2016

Culture

Metropole’s Top Ten Viennale Picks

Let Metropole help you choose the right course in the Viennale film feast With 300 features, shorts and documentaries shown over a mere two weeks, t...

Binu Starnegg - October 19, 2016

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...

Michael Bernstein - October 14, 2016

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...

Michael Bernstein - October 10, 2016

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...

The Editors - October 6, 2016

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...

Zwetelina Ortega - October 5, 2016

October 2016

October 2016 | Teach Me!

Learning today and how our education defines us Flip through the digital version ...

Metropole - October 1, 2016

City Life

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 Vie...

Andrew Lake - October 1, 2016

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...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 1, 2016

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...

Margaret Childs - October 1, 2016

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 ...

Roxanne Powell - October 1, 2016

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...

Michael Bernstein - October 1, 2016

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...

Rowan Salim - October 1, 2016

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. The...

Christian Cummins - October 1, 2016

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 if ...

Lana Sharp - October 1, 2016

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 in a...

Jennifer Cornick - October 1, 2016

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 ...

Janima Nam - October 1, 2016

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...

Gregory Bondaruk - October 1, 2016

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...

Binu Starnegg - October 1, 2016

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...

Janima Nam - October 1, 2016

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...

Ali Rabbani - October 1, 2016

Blog

Forever Learning

Life lessons One of my earliest memories is something my father said. I was having a tantrum after a fight with a classmate. “She’s just stup...

Margaret Childs - October 1, 2016

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 worldwide We asked WU dire...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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...

Michael Bernstein - October 1, 2016

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...

Margaret Childs - October 1, 2016

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...

Paul Malone - October 1, 2016

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...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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 field ...

Christian Cummins - October 1, 2016

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 ...

Janima Nam - October 1, 2016

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 the I...

Martin Ehl - October 1, 2016

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 swee...

Benjamin Wolf - October 1, 2016

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...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

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...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

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...

Julia Zimmerman - October 1, 2016

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 soci...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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...

Dardis McNamee - October 1, 2016

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 t...

Tristan Bath - October 1, 2016

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...

Janima Nam - October 1, 2016

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 slo...

Benjamin Wolf - October 1, 2016

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...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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...

Elisabeth Kling - October 1, 2016

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 and ...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

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 performanc...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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. ...

Tristan Bath - October 1, 2016

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...

Ali Rabbani - October 1, 2016

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...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

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 bal...

Binu Starnegg - October 1, 2016

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 Horizons ...

Ali Rabbani - October 1, 2016

Blog

Reader Feedback | October 2016

We’ve been getting great feedback from our readers over social media. Thanks very much for your thoughts, ideas and insights! Check us out on Facebook...

The Editors - October 1, 2016

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...

Binu Starnegg - October 1, 2016

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...

Magdalena Piplits - October 1, 2016

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 ...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

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...

Michael Lee - October 1, 2016

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 ...

Magdalena Piplits - October 1, 2016

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...

Cynthia Peck - October 1, 2016

News

Quotes, Stats & Numbers | Education

Here's an overview of stats and numbers from month's Metropole, all about education.

The Editors - October 1, 2016