Marie-Claire Zimmermann (born 10 June 1975 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian journalist and television presenter, who presents Austrian TV program Zeit im Bild . [1] [2] [3] [4] She is the sister of Carsten-Pieter Zimmermann.
The Vienna New Year's Concert is an annual concert of classical music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic on the morning of New Year's Day in Vienna, Austria. The concert occurs at the Musikverein at 11:15. The orchestra performs the same concert programme on 30 December, 31 December, and 1 January but only the last concert is regularly broadcast on radio and television.
Österreichischer Rundfunk is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on pay-TV and via terrestrial overspill since the 1980s.
Erik Schinegger is an Austrian [assigned the wrong sex at birth] skier. He was the women's downhill ski world champion in 1966, at which time he was recognized as female and known as Erika Schinegger.
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.
ORF 1 is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955, with regular programming started in 1957 when it now operated six days a week.
Armin Wolf is an Austrian journalist and television anchor. In 2017 Politico Europe called him "one of Europe’s most skilled political journalists". He was named "European Journalist of the Year 2019" at the Prix Europa media contest.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 28 September 2008 to elect the 24th National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called after Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) withdrew from the ruling grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) in July. Due to dissatisfaction with the governing parties, the opposition and minor parties were expected to make significant gains. Opinion polling indicated that up to seven parties could potentially win seats.
NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum is a liberal political party in Austria. It was founded as NEOS – The New Austria in 2012. In 2014, NEOS merged with Liberal Forum and adopted its current name.
Carsten-Pieter Zimmermann is an Austrian news anchor. He is known through his work at the TV station PULS 4 and Forbes Magazine.
Susanne Ayoub is an Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is known primarily for her crime novels, such as Engelsgift (2004), published by Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg, which became an international success. The substance of her work often draws upon real experiences of women and then processed as fiction.
Austria participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Weil der Mensch zählt" written and performed by Alf Poier. The Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) organised the national final Song.Null.Drei in order to select the Austrian entry for the 2003 contest in Riga, Latvia. Ten songs competed in a televised show where a public vote split between male and female voters exclusively selected "Weil der Mensch zählt" performed by Alf Poier as the winner.
Zeit im Bild (ZiB) (translated in English as A Time in the Picture) is the name for the television news broadcasts of ORF, running since December 1955.
The award Das Goldene Brett vorm Kopf is a negative prize awarded by the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Pseudosciences. The prize is organised by the Viennese regional group, the Society for Critical Thinking. The jury considers the "most astonishing pseudo-scientific nuisance" of the year in German-speaking countries. The award was presented for the first time in 2011 during the Sceptics Conference in Vienna. In 2016, the prize was presented simultaneously for the first time in Vienna and Hamburg.
Wandel is an Austrian left-wing and progressive political party led by Fayad Mulla. It is part of the pan-European coalition DiEM25.
Eva Dichand is an Austrian media manager, art collector, philanthropist and deputy chairwoman of the Albertina board of trustees, and managing director and publisher of the free daily newspaper Heute in Austria. Since 2012, she has owned the majority of the health portal Netdoktor, the largest medical online health portal, of which she is managing director.
The first season of the Austrian singing competition The Masked Singer Austria premiered on 14 March 2020 on Puls 4. The panelists were Elke Winkens, Nathan Trent and Sasa Schwarzjirg. The host was Arabella Kiesbauer.
Susanne Scholl is an Austrian journalist, writer and doyenne of the foreign correspondents of the ORF.
The Crown Prince is an Austrian-German-French-Italian television film from 2006 and deals with the last ten years of the life of the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg.
"Halo" is a song by Austrian DJ Lumix and singer Pia Maria. The song represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy after being selected by ORF, Austria's broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest. The song peaked at number six in Austria.