Vienna is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the Danube river.
Heinz „The Red Heinzi“or „HeiFi“Fischer GColIH, OMRI, RSerafO, GCollSE is a former Austrian politician who served as President of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004, he suspended his party membership as he became president.
Alexander „Sascha“ Van der Bellen, also referred to by the abbreviation VDB, is the current president of Austria. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Liechtenstein have several but not all of the same rights as non-LGBT people. Same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1989, with an equal age of consent since 2001. Same-sex couples have had access to registered partnerships since 2011, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been outlawed in some areas since 2016.
The Tonkunstler Orchestra is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna and Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria.
profil is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna. It has been in circulation since 1970. The magazine is sometimes considered the Austrian counterpart to Der Spiegel.
Bezirk Krems-Land is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. It comprises the areas to the South, West and North of the city Krems an der Donau, which itself is a statutory city.
The Grafenegg Festival is a major international classical music festival in Grafenegg, close to Vienna, Austria. The annual festival takes place on the grounds of Schloss Grafenegg. Two venues have been built particularly for the festival in the park of the castle: The open-air stage Wolkenturm as well as the new concert hall Auditorium.
Nickelodeon is a German free-to-air television channel for children, part of the international. based on the U.S. counterpart. brand originally launched in 1995, and relaunched in 2005, Nickelodeon is based in Berlin. The channel is available on subscription services and as an unscrambled, free-to-air (FTA) satellite signal. On 31 March 2010, the channel re-adopted the name Nickelodeon on air and online, in addition to the new Nickelodeon logo and graphical package being rolled out internationally at the time. The "Nickelodeon" name was re-adopted once again when it rebranded on 1 August 2023, nearly 5 months after its rebrand in the U.S. Since then, the channel is also broadcast in English in addition to German on a secondary audio track. It is aimed at kids between the ages of 6 and 13.
Kindberg is a municipality with a population in 2023 of 8,183 in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria. Kindberg's landmark is the Kindberger Zunftbaum, an approximately 30-metre high wooden pole on the main square.
Joannis Avramidis was a contemporary Greek-Austrian painter and sculptor. He was born in Batumi, on the Black Sea, in the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an Autonomous Republic of the former Soviet Union, to a family of Pontic Greeks, who had fled the repression of ethnic minorities in the Ottoman Empire in the turmoil leading up to the Greco-Turkish War.
The 1955 Austrian State Treaty ended the four-power occupation and recognized Austria as an independent and sovereign state. In October 1955, the Federal Assembly passed a constitutional law in which "Austria declares of her own free will her perpetual neutrality." The second section of this law stated that "in all future times Austria will not join any military alliances and will not permit the establishment of any foreign military bases on her territory." Since then, Austria has shaped its foreign policy on the basis of neutrality.
Baroness Therese von Droßdik was an Austrian musician and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. She is best known as one of the possible dedicatees of Beethoven's famous bagatelle, "Für Elise", WoO 59.
Sebastian Kurz is an Austrian former politician who served twice as the chancellor of Austria, initially from December 2017 to May 2019 and then a second time from January 2020 to October 2021. On 23 February 2024, Kurz received an eight-month suspended sentence after being convicted of perjury by a court in Vienna over his involvement in a parliamentary inquiry.
Markus Holemar is an Austrian footballer who plays for SC Wolfsthal in his home country.
Margit Auer is a German author. Her children's novels have sold a total of 8 million copies and have been translated into 26 languages. Margit Auer gained popularity through her book series Die Schule der magischen Tiere. The first book of this continuing series was published in 2013.
Austria-China relations, also known as Austro-Chinese or Sino-Austrian relations, are the bilateral relations between Austria and China. Austria holds an embassy in Beijing, and China holds an embassy in Vienna. There are also two Confucius Institutes in Austria in Vienna and Graz.
Daniela Fally is an Austrian operatic coloratura soprano. Based at the Vienna State Opera, she has made an international career.
Schloss Grafenegg is a castle in Grafenegg, Lower Austria, Austria. Together with Burg Kreuzenstein and Schloss Anif near Salzburg, it is considered to be an outstanding example of romantic historical architecture in Austria.
