A celebration of sounds is taking place in Vienna’s cultural hub this summer. The capital’s MuseumsQuartier is hosting a breadth of events exploring sound, art and architecture in a summer-long festival “Summer of Sounds”. The event kicked off on June 5 with the opening of an exhibit at mumok “Josef Dabernig. Rock the Void”, plus […]
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Extreme Jump Makes Stop in Vienna
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The extreme temperatures may be over but an extreme show is making its way to the Vienna stage in September. On September 21st to September 22nd spectacular martial arts moves and stunts a la Jackie Chan will be on show as part of the Martial Arts Show “Extreme Jump”. For just two days the spectacle […]
The Vienna Stadtkino cinema is to move from its current location to the Vienna Künstlerhaus from September. This move ends years of discussions about the future of the cinema and should signalise improvements for the cinema goers as well as all those involved in the cinema. The Stadtkino has been located on Vienna’s Schwarzenbergplatz for […]
Children from disadvantaged families have the opportunity to get back to school equipment at cheaper prices. At the Vienna Caritas Charity division ‘Carla’ school equipment is being sold at cheaper prices to families with financial difficulties. A recent survey by the Chamber of Labour found that the average cost of back to school equipment including […]
Second Miss Wiesn-Fest wanted
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The preparations for the biggest Austrian Folk Festival “Wiesn-Fest”, which will take place for the third time on 19 September 2013 in Vienna Prater, are underway. Women from 18 to 45 can apply for the Miss Wiesn-Fest competition. Last year, 37-year-old Martina from Vienna won the First Miss Wiesn-Fest contest against seven candidates. She describes […]
An online comic strip set up as a blog by a Viennese student notched up in September more than 1 million page views. Felix Goldberg decided to put his English-language comic strips on the subject of love and relationships online and said he was surprised about the response. He said: “I am really overwhelmed by […]
Budapest bids for a share of sweet success
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When you think of Hungarian food you think of goulash, dumplings or maybe spicy peppers – chocolate would probably not be in the top ten. Austria, on the other hand is a country with a rich chocolate tradition with plenty of sweet delicacies such as the world famous chocolate Sacher Torte, Mozart chocolates or Manner […]
Manner busier despite price hikes
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Tradition-rich sweets manufacturer Manner said today (Fri) it managed to increase its turnover by more than 10 per cent. The company, best known for its Manner Schnitten hazelnut cream wafers, announced a 10.3 per cent turnover rise from the first nine months of 2010 to 122.2 million Euros in the same time span of this […]
Alarm bells are ringing for politicians and businesspeople as the number of people with no job is on the rise again. Social Democratic (SPÖ) Labour Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer announced today (Tues) that around 300,400 people were out of work last month. The minister explained that the number of unemployed residents of Austria rose by 0.8 […]
A new German study has brought uplifting news for Austrian tourism sector businessman.Commerzbank said today (Weds) that it expects Germans to spend 3.5 per cent more on holidays this year than in 2009. The Frankfurt-based institute said its study suggests that Germans will fork out 61.3 billion Euros on holidays this year. The bank said […]