A trainee firemen, 16, has admitted starting several blazes at Kirchdorf an der Krems in Upper Austria because he enjoyed the thrill of being involved in the emergency call to extinguish the fires. He was caught because police became suspicious after he was the one that discovered most of the fires. The fires had started […]
Plays by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek, Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy will be performed at the Burgtheater (www.burgtheater.at) next season. Burgtheater director Matthias Hartmann announced that the theatre would stage a drama play based on Jelinek’s text “Schatten (Eurydike sagt)” from autumn. Jelinek’s “Winterreise” is currently performed to wide acclaim at […]
Gunkl – one of Austria’s most gifted stage entertainers – is performing a new programme. The artist also known as Günther Paal will perform “Die großen Kränkungen der Menschheit – auch schon nicht leicht” on several stages across Austria in the coming weeks. However, the “Salzburger Stier” laureate is also looking forward to entertaining his […]
A Lower Austrian man has admitted putting his aunt into a freezer to continue raking in social benefits. Officers searched the 89-year-old woman’s house in Neuhofen an der Ybbs yesterday (Mon) after relatives and friends informed them they had not heard from her for some time. Her body was discovered in a deep freezer, officials […]
A worker collapsed and died after being stung by a wasp, it has emerged.The 43-year-old from Perg told colleagues what happened before he passed out in front of them at his company in Wartberg ob der Aist near Freistadt, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs). The co-workers failed to resuscitate him.A doctor said today the man died […]
Massive damage has been caused when a passenger ship crashed into a vessel in Lower Austria.Local shipping officials said today (Fri) the captain of the Swiss ship may have fallen asleep behind the rudder before running into a ferry near Orth an der Donau south-east of Vienna on Tuesday night. Repairs to both ships will […]
A 40-year-old man has been arrested for attacking the mayor of a town in Carinthia.St. Veit an der Glans Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Gerhard Mock said today (Thurs) he and a secretary suffered minor injuries in the incident outside the local town hall yesterday.”Ive been threatened with murder a few times over the phone ahead […]
A Carinthian farmer sustained severe facial injuries in a forestry accident yesterday (Mon).The 58-year-old was working on his own in his woodlands near Steinfeld in the province Spittal an der Drau district when he suddenly lost control of his chainsaw. The saw flipped up and slashed his jaw.The man managed to drive himself to his […]
An opera star has said that she was kicked out of a taxi for being black.Afro-American soprano Angel Blue said today (Thurs) that she was ordered to get out of a cab in Vienna moments after she entered it.Weekly magazine News reports the singer as saying: “The driver said: I don’t drive black women – […]
Arno Geiger’s most recent book has been identified as the bestselling novel by an Austrian this year.Publishing group Schwarzer announced that “Alles über Sally” sold more copies than the latest novels by US American writer Donna Leon (“Schöner Schein” or About Face) and Swedish fiction author Henning Mankell (“Der Feind im Schatten” or Den orolige […]