Johann Ludwig Bach was a German composer and violinist.
Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Austria has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 56 times since its debut in 1957. The country has won twice, in 1966 and 2014, and such it holds the record for the longest gap between consecutive wins — 48 years. The Austrian participant broadcaster in the contest is Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). Vienna was the host city on both of the occasions that the contest was held in Austria, in 1967 and 2015.
The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra of the Austrian national broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). Unlike most other Austrian orchestras, the RSO Wien has a substantial focus on contemporary classical music.
Nadja Tiller was an Austrian actress in film, television, and on stage. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses in the international cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, receiving international recognition when she played the title role in the 1958 film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (Rosemary) in 1958, shown at the Venice Film Festival. It opened the way to international films. She often played alongside her husband, Walter Giller.
Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".
Wolf Albach-Retty was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider.
Alfred Polgar was an Austrian-born columnist, theater critic, writer and occasionally translator.
Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art.
Stermann & Grissemann are an Austrian German comedy duo comprising Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann.
The Karl Renner Prize, established on the occasion of the Austrian Federal President Karl Renner’s 80th birthday by the city of Vienna, is awarded to individuals or groups in recognition of merits for Vienna and Austria in cultural, social as well as economic concerns, acknowledged on a national or international level. Endowed with 43,600 euro, the prize is currently given to a maximum of six nominees every three years.
Erik Werba was an Austrian classical pianist who is especially known as an accompanist of singers. He was also a music critic, conductor, composer, author and academic teacher.
Werner Schneyder was an Austrian kabarett performer, journalist, writer, actor, stage director, television presenter and sports reporter. He performed political kabarett with Dieter Hildebrandt from 1974 to 1982, with an extra program presented in Leipzig, then in the GDR, in 1985. He moderated das aktuelle sportstudio on ZDF from 1975, and a series about boxing for RTL from 1992 to 1999. He described himself as a Universaldilettant.
Ilse Erika Korotin is an Austrian philosopher and sociologist. She researched and published on the history of ideas of Nazism. At the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna, she heads the Documentation Centre for Women's Studies. Her work focuses on feminist biographical research and history of science.
Fritz Walden, real name Friedrich Drobilitsch, also Fritz Drobilitsch-Walden and Franz Drobilitsch, was an Austrian publicist, author and cultural editor as well as film, literature, music and theatre critic.
Miguel Herz-Kestranek is an Austrian actor and author.
Georg Vetter is an Austrian business lawyer, author and former politician at Team Stronach and Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
Monika Czernin is an Austrian writer, screenwriter, actress and film director.
Hans Werner Sokop is an Austrian poet and translator. In parallel to his professional career at the municipal administration of Vienna he has published a vast range of publications ranging from various sorts of poems to translations into German and Viennese German. Specifically, he translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri in two versions in 1983 and 2014, the latter improved, but both retaining Dante's terza rima.
