Spanish police arrested 47-year-old Austrian Bernd Eichelberger after he burned down a massage parlour when the female masseuse refused to give him “a happy end”. The tourist in the town of Palma de Mallorca on the Spanish island of Majorca had gone for the massage believing that a happy end was part of the service, […]
With the auction room filled to capacity, a crowd of telephone bidders drove the price for a work by Lorenzo Lippi up to 870,000 Euros at Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house. His “Triumph of David” was created under the influence of the Roman and French reaction to Caravaggio, and as such is characterised by the masterful […]
A series of pre-Christmas, classical concerts will take place in Salzburg this winter. The event named “Delirium” is to be presented by conductor, director and founder of the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, Gustav Kuhn. The various concerts will take place in the Mozarteum Foundation’s Large Hall and will play host to both the orchestra and […]
A revamped adaption of a celebrated play by Bertolt Brecht is drawing the crowds at the Volkstheater in Vienna.”Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti” is regarded as one of the highlights of the theatre’s current season.While critics unanimously praised main characters Marcello de Nardo and Günter Franzmeier, some criticised director Thomas Schulte-Michels decision to trim […]
Austrian police are cooperating with their Italian colleagues in a new pilot project.Carabinieri Lorenzo Galli and Paolo de Biasi will join Austrian police officers on patrol at the Christmas markets of Innsbruck, Tyrol, during the next few weeks.The Italian policemen said today (Fri) they will try to reduce communication troubles when their fellow countrymen become […]
The Austrian Foreign Ministry has reported that there were no Austrians on board a plane that crashed en route from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, killing 68 people.Ministry spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said today (Fri) that two victims initially thought to be Austrian had actually been Australian.He cautioned, however, that there had not yet been official […]