Robert Dornhelm has hired a yet unknown actress to star as murder victim Meredith Kercher in an upcoming TV drama based on the life of convicted killer Amanda Knox, according to British media.Newspapers report that 26-year-old Cambridge University graduate Amanda Fernando Stevens has been assigned by the Austrian director to star as the Irish exchange […]
An Austrian priest will receive this years Right Livelihood Award for his courageous work with native Indians in the Brazilian rainforest, it was announced today (Thurs).Erwin Kräutler has been bishop of the Xingu prelature the biggest diocese of the South American country since 1981. The 71-year-old has been under permanent police protection since […]
A celebrated Austrian film director will turn a convicted murderers life story into a movie, it has emerged.Robert Dornhelm is reportedly already engaged in pre-production preparations for a TV film project with the working title “The Amanda Knox Story”.The film set to be screened next year will be based on the life of […]
An Italian opera star has been named the new artistic director of the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele (Salzburg Whitsun Festival).Incoming festival manager Alexander Pereira announced today (Tues) mezzo soprano Cecilia Bartoli will be in charge of the three-day annual event from 2012. Bartoli will succeed Italian conductor Riccardo Muti.Bartoli, 44, said she will sing in some upcoming […]
A zoo worker has been fired after he was found growing cannabis in the rhino enclosure.Salzburg Hellbrunn Zoo director Sabine Grebner said today (Mon): “Its horrible! We never thought such a thing was possible. We are here for families and kids and we dont have anything to do with drugs.”Police said the 59-year-old rhinoceros […]
Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have been on a top secret trip to Salzburg, it has emerged.The A-list celebrities flew into the picturesque citys airport in separate private jets yesterday morning (Mon). “Mission: Impossible” star Cruise was accompanied by his wife Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri.The actors and their entourage stayed at […]
Outgoing State Opera director Ioan Holender is to become head of the Budapest State Opera, according to reports.Viennese newspapers claim today (Fri) that the 74-year-old Romanian-born director was in talks with Hungarian federal culture chiefs over taking over as creative director of the capitals opera house.Holender headed the Vienna State Opera for 18 years. Frenchman […]
Quentin Tarantino will visit Austria to look for a location for an upcoming film about Dracula, it has been reported.Austrian press claimed over the weekend that the “Pulp Fiction” director will stay for four nights in Vienna to visit castles in the nearby countryside.Oscar winner Nicolas Cage spent some weeks in Austria to shoot supernatural […]
An exhibition on the work of artist Susi Weigel will open at the Womens Museum in Hittisau, Vorarlberg on 13 May, it was announced today (Fri).Weigel, who died in 1990, produced a vast amount of childrens literature, including the classic “Das kleine Ich bin Ich” (The small me is me) in 1972. The exhibition will […]