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Euro 2008: Austria Warms Up
Austria got her first taste of Euro Cup action last night during a friendly match against the French. Thankfully, the result has no bearing on the coming champi... | Comment |
Osterklang 2007
Vienna's famed Osterklang - The Sound of Easter. - is about to kick off at the Musikverein this Saturday (31st March).
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir will be g... | Art and Culture |
Pope will visit Vienna
Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Austrian capital this autumn, Cardinal Schoenborn has confirmed. The pontiff is due to arrive in Vienna on September 7th for a ... | City Focus |
Phantoms of the Underpass
It might sound like a spoof from Chris Morris's Brasseye, but the powers that be are poised to use opera to tackle crime.
We say crime, but the catalogue of ... | City Focus |
Euro 2008: Combat Training Underway
Austrian policemen began an intense training programme this week to get them up to scratch in the art of neutralising marauding hooligans. 2000 officers are tak... | Comment |
A Shark's Tale
Austria sounds like an unlikely setting for a Jaws film. After all, there aren't that many tropical seas in the region. But that didn't stop a shark from turnin... | Comment |
Euro 2008: Plans For Fans Ruffle Feathers
Just a fortnight ago, a jubilant countdown party was launched at Vienna's City Hall - Euro 2008 is on the way. But one particular neighbour is not exactly over ... | City Focus |
Vienna Tale Tipped For Oscar
A film set in fin-de-siecle Vienna is a favourite for scooping an award at this year's Oscars.
Dick Pope's dreamy cinematography for The Illusionist - a haun... | Art and Culture |
Vienna Life Gallery
Vienna Life is delighted to welcome Magdalena Walawska into our cyber fold. An up-and-coming photographer from Cracow, Poland, Magda has spent much of the last ... | Art and Culture |
The Mayerling Incident
On this day in 1889, the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolf and his lover Baroness Vetsera were discovered in a hunting lodge near Vienna.
The so-called 'Mayerli... | History |
Euro 2008 countdown begins!
That's right - it's on its way. The 500 day countdown began yesterday for Euro 2008, with scores of enthusiasts descending on City Hall for a celebration of th... | Comment |
Bumper Year For Vienna
Tourism in Vienna grew for the fourth consecutive year according to official data from the City Bureau.
Overnight visits to the Austrian capital have climbed ... | Comment |
Wedding Joke Backfires
Many of us have been tempted to try a witty remark when the priest arrives at that crucial juncture: "Speak now or forever hold your peace."
There's so much ... | Comment |
Lost Mozart Allegro Breathes Again
The 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth may have proved something of an overload for many Viennese, following a year of non-stop hype, but Austria has rounded o... | Art and Culture |
Robots With Charm
When travellers recall that their waiters were like robots, it's not usually a compliment. But Vienna's Roboexotica exhibition is turning the old cliche on its ... | Comment |
Statue Unveiled Of Hungarian Hero
A statue was unveiled in Vienna on Saturday of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, the legendary Hungarian bishop who escaped to Austria in 1971.
The statue has been... | History |
Franz Joseph Departs
On this day ninety years ago, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria passed away. He had reigned for 68 years. As Miklos Banffy recalled:
'Everyone knew that it ... | History |
Will Mel Gibson Save Vienna?
Word has emerged that blockbuster director Mel Gibson has been approached to direct a film about the 1683 Siege of Vienna. The project, under the working title ... | Art and Culture |
Munch Returns To Mahler
A celebrated painting by Edward Munch is to be presented to the granddaughter of composer Gustav Mahler following far-reaching changes in restitution laws.
'... | Art and Culture |
A Flush Deal
The controversial 'opera urinals' have been sold on eBay by their owner, Herr Gerhard Neuhold. The lots fetched 5, 343 euros.
The graphic conveniences caused... | Comment |
Klimts Smash Auction Records
Last night's sale at Christie's, New York, proved to be the most lucrative art auction of all time. As it was, an embattled Austrian emigre reaped the greatest ... | Art and Culture |
Prisoner Parcelled to Freedom
A Bosnian burglar was on the run last night after an audacious escape from a prison near Graz. Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, had himself wrapped in a parcel in orde... | Comment |
Bruno To Follow Borat
Word has got out that Universal pictures is about to catapult an unlikely Austrian to fame. That Austrian is Bruno, the outspoken fashionista with a penchant fo... | Comment |
Swarovski Heiress In Kidnap Shock
Austria's most glamourous couple were under police protection last night after a brazen kidnapping plot emerged. Fiona Swarovski, focus of the plot and milliona... | Current Affairs |
Ridiculous Robberies
There have been so many strange bank robber stories floating around over the last few months that we're beginning to wonder whether it's all an extended April F... | Comment |
Man Ditches Marital Didget
In a moment of madness, many have flushed a wedding ring down the toilet, or flung a treasure out the window. However, a Viennese man resorted to a more dramati... | Comment |
It's Raining Houses
In a scene reminiscent of The Wizard Of Oz, a house has landed on the roof of a famous Vienna landmark. However, no green-faced witch has been wiped out yet. Ra... | Art and Culture |
Family Film Shows Vienna's Nadir
An 85-year-old retired teacher from Michigan has made public an extraordinary heir-loom that shows the ugly face of pre-war Vienna.
Stanley Baker spent some... | History |
Rumpus Over Racy Urinals
The owner of a public toilet facility in central Vienna has agreed to remove some urinals that have offended female members of parliament.
The urinals in que... | City Focus |
Database Launched of Looted Art
The fate of Europe's art treasures during the Second World War has inspired dozens of books and scores of court cases. Even today, many of Central Europe's olde... | Art and Culture |
A Walk on the Wild Side
A descendent of one Europe's oldest circus families broke a hair-raising record yesterday in Austria's Saukaser Valley.
But perhaps 'over' is a more apt word... | Comment |
Euro 2008 Mascots Launched
It's certainly not the intention of Vienna Life to use these pages as an arena to throw darts at hapless foes, but the emergence of the Euro 2008 mascots this w... | Comment |
The Third Man Returns!
Movie lovers are in for a treat this week as one of the all-time classics of the cinema has just been re-released on DVD. Carol Reed's noirish thriller The Thir... | Art and Culture |
Vienna World Record Day
In the same week that a mysterious turn-of-the century Viennese conjurer arrived on our screens in the Hollywood epic The Illusionist, denizens of real-life mag... | City Focus |
'Gentleman Thief' Sent To Jail
It may well be a functional salt cellar, but it's hard to imagine anyone feeling overly hungry at the breakfast table when confronted by such a trinket. The rio... | City Focus |
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