Austria

One of the first women of celebrity in the modern sense of the word, Elisabeth of Austria was a gifted, vibrant woman imprisoned by contemporary etiquette

Wiener schnitzel, born in Vienna, has its own form, its own magic

He arrived in America pretending to be the son of an Austrian count but became one of early cinema’s most adventurous and meticulous directors

Many exiled European writers embraced their situation, but for Zweig the loss of his nation represented the loss of his identity

The blame for the end of a glorious imperial story cannot be laid solely at his feet, but the longer he lived the more anachronistic his rule became

It gave the world Freud and a host of cultural figures. But as a new book celebrates Austria’s capital, what about its footballers?

Hit Netflix series Restaurants on the Edge demonstrates that keeping it simple in the kitchen doesn’t always mean submitting to the obvious

History never seems to pass in Vienna and this will always be the case

We must take a leaf out of Vienna’s book and reckon with the past of the British empire

The Austrian’s life was defined by a single event lasting 55 seconds

The country’s longstanding neutrality faces scrutiny as far-right MPs walk out on Volodymyr Zelensky’s address

Unveiling Vienna-bound Gustav Klimt’s pan-European inspirations

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

Popper never accepted the idea that people did not know about the Holocaust or the gulags, rather they chose not to know. For him, knowledge was a moral obligation

As a new collection in Vienna shows, the rich have stopped lending art to public galleries, and are opening their own spaces instead

The Austrian-American composer was convinced atonality was the future of music. Sadly, his fear of the number 13 led to his death before this day could arrive

If we harness the productive power of new technology and increase people’s skills across the board our relationship with work could be very different

A company is offering the ultimate symbol of wealth - a 52-metre luxury yacht tethered to a 200-metre helium airship

The horse, who has been put down after contracting skin cancer, gained fame for her daily strolls while wearing a halter that read, “My name is Jenny. I’ve not escaped, just taking a walk”

The establishment, where the Russian leader developed a liking for German beer, has now also taken down its shrine to the president

News from across Europe you might have missed, including reality hitting Italian TV contestants and a surprising find in a mop bucket

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a charming and bewitchingly charismatic medical practitioner whose methods were declared hokum after long keeping the elite mesmerised

As a new variant hits, Austrians are once again dealing with the strangeness of life behind closed doors.

Two downfalls hint at a return to more respectable politics in countries at the heart of the continent.

Not all languages use the same terms to describe skin colour, writes PETER TRUDGILL.

PETER TRUDGILL on a recent decision to drop a common Austrian phrase due to racial sensitivities

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

More weird news from Europe, including a fake Kanye West gig in a field near Paris, a cow-riding German and the Austrian punk singer who vaccinates his own fans

It is not too late for Iran and world powers to clinch a deal to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, says the European Union’s foreign policy chief.  Josep Borrell said an agreement was “very close” after Sunday’s meeting in Vienna and could make the Middle East safer by bringing aid to millions of Iranians hit […]

As a senior minister becomes mired in a major corruption case, what is it about the country that makes it so susceptible to such scandals? When Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s first government was capsized in 2019 by the corruption of his coalition partners, it was largely shrugged off as the sort of accident that happens […]

The news you might have missed from around Europe, selected by Steve Anglesey. A group of hapless would-be thieves were arrested in Nancy, north-east France, after a disastrous attempt to rob a friend’s stash of several thousand euros. Two men, one armed with a hunting rifle, aborted their first raid when a woman they did […]

CATHRIN SCHAER on the latest European country coming to terms with an atrocity. This week’s terror attack in Vienna was the first in the Austrian capital since 1981, when Palestinian gunmen stormed its main synagogue and killed two people. Monday evening’s atrocity was also the most murderous, resulting in four deaths and more than a […]