Andrea Maria Dusl (born 12 August 1961), is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator.
She was born in Vienna, the daughter of Austrian architect Erwin H. Dusl and Swedish captain's family Pettersson's descendant Monica Jüllig. Between 1981 and 1985 she studied stage design at Vienna's Akademie der Bildenden Künste and promoted as Master of Arts. She worked as assistant stage designer at Vienna's Burgtheater, Akademietheater (under the direction of George Tabori), Theater an der Wien, Theater in der Josefstadt and Wiener Staatsoper. Between 1993 and 1997 she attended medical studies at Universität Wien (University of Vienna).
Since 1985 she has been writing and illustrating for Austrian newspapers and magazines. Her columns Comandantina Dusilova and Fragen Sie Frau Andrea ("Ask Miss Andrea"), published in Austria's weekly magazine Falter have many fans among urban and liberal readers.
In 2003 Falter published the paperback Fragen Sie Frau Andrea. In 2007 Residenz Verlag published Dusl's book Die österreichische Oberfläche (The Austrian Surface). The novels Boboville (2008) and "Channel 8" (2010) were published by Residenz Verlag. In 2012 Dusl wrote "Ins Hotel konnte ich ihn nicht mitnehmen" (I could not take him to the hotel) for the Viennese publisher Metroverlag.
In 2001 she shot her first feature film Blue Moon starring Austrian stand-up comedian Josef Hader, Ukrainian actress Victoria Malektorovych and German helmer-actor Detlev Buck. Blue Moon premiered at the 2002 Locarno International Film Festival. Awards: (2003 Grand Prix for Best Austrian Film (Graz, Diagonale). 2003 Special Jury Prize (Łagów Film Festival , Łagów, Poland) and Variety Critic's Choice of Europe's 10 Best Films, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2004 Best Script (Graz, Diagonale)).
In 2006 she has hosted Redezeit, a monthly political discussion at Viennas "off-broadway"-theater Rabenhof.
Susi Nicoletti was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films. She was born as Susanne Emilie Luise Adele Habersack in Munich, but spent most of her childhood with her parents in Amsterdam. Back in Munich, she made her stage debut at age 13. Two years later she became a ballerina.
Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.
Lukas Beck is an Austrian photographer who specialises in music and theatre.
Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.
Margarete Hilferding, born Hönigsberg was an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst.
Franz Rosei is an Austrian sculptor and draughtsman. His brother is the writer Peter Rosei.
Hilde (Wundsam) Zimmermann, was a member of the Austrian Resistance. Arrested for her efforts to fight fascism, she was deported with her mother and childhood friend by Nazi officials to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany; she then went on to survive both her imprisonment there and a death march.
Martin Kušej is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the German-speaking world since the millennium. He is considered one of the most important directors working today, acclaimed for his dark and incisive productions.
Gerald Jatzek is an Austrian author, composer, mail artist and musician. He writes in German and English and has published books for children and adults, short stories, plays for radio, and essays. His books have been translated into Korean and Turkish, his poems have appeared in anthologies and literature papers in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA.
Hanna Sturm was a labour rights and peace activist who became a resistance activist after Austria was merged into Nazi Germany in 1938. She spent the next few years in German concentration camps, but emerged from Ravensbrück camp on 30 April 1945 having survived. Many did not. She wrote an autobiographical record of her experiences in 1958 but was unable to find a publisher: in 1982, two years before she died, the work was however published.
Inge Maux is an Austrian actress.
Elsa Asenijeff, was an Austrian writer and partner of Max Klinger.
Bernd-Christian Funk is an Austrian legal scholar and educator. Funk is a former professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, the dean and academic director of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna Faculty of Law, and one of the governors of the Medical University of Innsbruck.
Gertrud Fussenegger was an Austrian writer and a prolific author, especially of historical novels. Many commentators felt that her reputation never entirely escaped from the shadow cast by her enthusiasm, as a young woman, for National Socialism.
Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1877–1954) was an Austrian writer and illustrator.
Gerlinde Haid (born Hofer was an Austrian folk music researcher.
Feminism WTF is a 2023 Austrian documentary film about feminism and gender equality, written, produced and directed by Katharina Mückstein. The documentary had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen on 18 March 2023. It won the Audience Award for Most Popular Film at the 2023 Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, and the Vienna Women's Prize for Best Director in 2023. The film was released theatrically in Austria by Stadtkino Filmverleih on 31 March 2023 and became the fourth most-watched Austrian film of 2023.
Thomas Hörl is a visual artist. He spent his childhood and youth in Golling an der Salzach and Salzburg. Hörl's center of life is currently in Vienna, where he rents a studio in the sculpture buildings of the federal government in the former 1873 world expo pavilions.. He studied art at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at Iceland University of the arts and Tokyo Zokei University. Before his studies he was trained as a chef and visited a school for sculpture.
Lydia Mischkulnig is an Austrian writer living in Vienna. The winner of the Bertelsmann-Literaturpreis writes mainly novels, narratives and radio plays.
Heidi Harsieber is an Austrian photographer who is known for her independent artistic work and also for her portrait and documentary works of the Austrian art scene.