Austria 2015
This article lists events in 2015 in Austria .
General
- January 12th: The all-clear in the HCB scandal in Görtschitztal , only increased values can be detected for meat and milk
- February 12: The 59th Vienna Opera Ball is by Olga Bezsmertna , Aida Garifullina and Carlos Álvarez opened
- February 21: The Frohnleiten bridge collapses
- March 19: Start of construction for the main tunnel of the Brenner Base Tunnel . The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026 and the costs are estimated at around EUR 8.5 billion. With a length of 64 kilometers, this should be the longest underground railway connection in the world. 30 percent of the costs are borne by Austria and Italy, 40 percent are financed by the EU.
- April 13: Wilhelm Krautwaschl is appointed by the Vatican to succeed Egon Kapellari as Bishop of Graz, Werner Freistetter becomes the new military bishop
- April 17th: The Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library opens
- April 21: A memorial for over 1200 judicial victims of the National Socialist regime is unveiled at the Vienna Regional Criminal Court
- April 25th: European championship in tram driving in Vienna
- May 11th: On the occasion of the Life Ball , the Eurovision Song Contest and the Rainbow Parade, pairs of traffic lights were installed in Vienna .
- May 16: The Life Ball takes place in Vienna for the 23rd time
- May 29th: The Long Night of the Churches , taking place for the eleventh time, is attended by over 350,000 people.
- June 8: Claudia Rapp from the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna is awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , endowed with 1.5 million euros
- June 10th to 14th: Bilderberg conference in Telfs in Tyrol, from Austria among others Heinz Fischer , René Benko , Oscar Bronner , Gerhard Roiss , Erich Hampel , Karl Sevelda , Rudolf Scholten and Alfred Gusenbauer take part
- June 20: Amok run from Graz
- June 20th: The Rainbow Parade takes place in Vienna for the 20th time
- June – August: 2015 heat wave in Europe
- July 1st to 5th: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015 in Klagenfurt
- July 23: After a 26-year planning phase, the actual construction work on the Semmering Base Tunnel finally begins . The 27.3 kilometer long tunnel should be completed by 2025.
- July 31: The Austrian National Library publishes farewell letters from Mary Vetsera that were previously thought to be lost .
- August 11th to 16th: At the WorldSkills World Championships in São Paulo , Austria won a total of eight medals, five of which were gold, two silver and one bronze.
- August 12: The Austrian Lotto achieved the highest single win to date, at EUR 9.6 million.
- August 12th: A fire breaks out in the roof dome of the Palais Fanto . The premises of the Arnold Schönberg Center housed in the palace are damaged by the extinguishing water . The exhibition rooms and the library will be temporarily closed for renovation.
- 19 August to 4 September: 70 years of Forum Alpbach - The European Forum Alpbach 2015 takes place under the motto "Inequality"
- August 27th: refugee tragedy near Parndorf
- August 31: Over 20,000 people take part in the demonstration, Mensch sein in Austria, for a change in refugee policy in Europe
- September 5: On this day, around 9,000 people from the Asian region immigrated illegally, but tolerated by the state authorities, from Hungary to Austria, most of them traveling on to Germany via the Westbahnhof. A total of around 16,000 refugees from Hungary crossed the Austrian border that weekend, 15,000 traveled on to Germany, and 730 filed asylum applications in Austria. See also the refugee crisis in Europe 2015
- October 3: World Championship for beards in Leogang
- October 3rd: 16th Long Night of the Museums
- October 3: Demonstration "Refugees Welcome!" In Vienna with 20,000 (according to the police) and 60,000 participants (according to the organizer). As part of the demonstration, the Mariahilfer Straße was pasted around 300 meters with 2,100 posters showing refugees and helpers. After the demonstration and in the evening, a solidarity concert for refugees under the motto " Voices for Refugees " took place at Heldenplatz with around 15 local and international artists and over 100,000 visitors with free admission.
- October 6: In Case C-362/14 - Max Schrems / Data Protection Commissioner - explains the European Court of Justice , the Safe Harbor Grant Decision by the European Commission to be invalid.
- October 23: Presentation of the Austrian of the Year 2015 award
- October 24th: Heinz Lederleitner was elected the new bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Austria .
- October 25th: Presentation of the Big Brother Awards in Vienna's Rabenhof Theater
- November 8th: The Voitsberg steam power station was supposed to be blown up by experts from the Austrian Armed Forces . For the armed forces it was the largest building demolition in the Second Republic, for the 15,400-ton building 666 kilograms of explosives were used. The demolition went wrong, the tower on the side of the building was blown up, but the main part remained standing.
- November 9: Awarding of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2015
- November 17: The Federal Competition Authority approves the merger of the Vienna Green Cross with the Red Cross
- November 18: The Vatican appoints Manfred Scheuer as the new Bishop of Linz
- November 30th: The food chain Zielpunkt files for bankruptcy, 2,700 employees are affected
- December 3: The culture of welcome is voted Austrian Word of the Year 2015
- December 9: The electronic health record (ELGA) starts in Styrian state hospitals, religious hospitals and geriatric centers as well as in five departments of the hospital in Vienna-Hietzing.
- December 5th: Miss Earth World Finals in the Marx Hall in Vienna
- December 13: The Vienna Central Station goes into full operation with a change of timetable
politics
- January 1st: The Styrian municipal structural reform comes into force. 542 become 287 municipalities, only 157 municipalities remain unchanged
- February 24: The National Council resolves to transform the Austrian industrial holding company (ÖIAG) into the Austrian Federal and Industriebeteiligungen GmbH (ÖBIB)
- February 25: Parliament adopts a new version of the Islam law
- February 26: Start of the parliamentary Hypo committee of inquiry . This is the 22nd Committee of Inquiry of the Second Republic and the first to be set up by the opposition, having only been able to do so since 2015.
- March 6: The Art Restitution Advisory Board of the Republic speaks out against the return of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze to the heirs of the original owner. Chancellery Minister Josef Ostermayer declares that he will follow this recommendation.
- May 26: The Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) rejects several complaints against the construction of the Semmering base tunnel . The tunnel opponents only have to go to the administrative or constitutional court, which however no longer has any suspensive effect.
- June 3rd: Change of the two members of the Stronach team, Georg Vetter and Marcus Franz , to the parliamentary club of the ÖVP.
- June 8th: Presentation of the state government Niessl IV , the previous SPÖ federal manager and former defense minister Norbert Darabos becomes state councilor for social affairs and health
- June 10: The Styrian Governor Franz Voves announces his resignation, presentation by the state government Schützenhöfer I
- June 24th to July 1st: Registration week for the referendum to leave the EU 261,159 Austrians have signed the referendum, making it 23rd of the 38 referendums so far.
- JULY 6: Austria brings the European Court a lawsuit against the authorization of state aid for the construction of the British nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C one.
- July 8th: The Austrian National Council decides on a general smoking ban for the catering trade from May 2018.
- July 14th: After 13 years of ongoing nuclear dispute with Iran, after three weeks of negotiations at Palais Coburg in Vienna , an agreement is reached with the EU, the five UN veto powers and Germany
- July 28: The Constitutional Court repeals the special law for the restructuring of Hypo Alpe Adria and the associated haircut for subordinated creditors from 2014.
- August 1: Change of the two members of the Stronach team, Kathrin Nachbaur and Rouven Ertlschweiger , to the parliamentary club of the ÖVP.
- August 11: The MP Jessi Lintl leaves the Stronach team and remains as a non-attached MP in the National Council.
- August 14th: The Secretary General of Amnesty International Austria Heinz Patzelt presents the final results of the investigations into the situation in the Federal Care Center East in Traiskirchen
- August 26: The Austrian federal government appoints Christian Konrad as refugee coordinator.
- August 27: Western Balkans Conference in Vienna
- September 1: The ÖVP politician Ursula Stenzel announces her candidacy for the FPÖ in the state and municipal council elections in Vienna in 2015 .
- September 10: The Governor of Lower Austria Erwin Pröll announces that the Vienna-Umgebung district is to be dissolved and the communities are to be divided into the adjacent districts.
- September 14: After Germany, Austria also introduces temporary border controls
- September 23rd: The Austrian National Council decides a right of intervention in the creation of accommodation for refugees
- October 22nd: Presentation of the state government Pühringer V
- October 23: A Syria summit takes place in Vienna with, among others, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Russia's chief diplomat Sergei Lavrov and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jabir.
- October 30: First Syria Conference in Vienna with representatives from 17 countries, the EU and the UN
- October 29th: The Carinthian state parliament passes a fundamental resolution for a constitutional reform and the abolition of proportional representation .
- November 2: Susanne Winter , member of the National Council, is expelled from the FPÖ, but would like to remain as a non-attached member of the National Council
- November 3: The Council of Ministers resolves to dissolve the Finanzmarktbeteiligung Aktiengesellschaft (FIMBAG) on June 30, 2016
- November 14th: Second Syria Conference in Vienna with representatives from 17 countries, the EU and the UN
- November 14: In Vienna, the SPÖ and the Greens agree on a new coalition pact ( provincial government and city senate Häupl VI ).
- November 17: The government announces the planned establishment of nine education directorates in the federal states.
- November 29: The two governing parties SPÖ and ÖVP agree on the State Protection Act
- December 3: The Administrative Court revokes the approval for the construction of the Semmering Base Tunnel under the Lower Austrian Nature Conservation Act.
Election dates
- 25 January: Municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015
- January 25: Election of the Chamber of Agriculture in Upper Austria
- February 23-26: 2015 Chamber of Commerce election
- March 1st: Municipal council and mayoral elections in Carinthia 2015
- March 1st: Election of the Chamber of Agriculture in Lower Austria
- March 15: Municipal council and mayoral elections in Vorarlberg 2015
- March 22nd: Municipal council elections in Styria 2015
- 19. – 21. May: ÖH elections
- May 31: State election in Burgenland 2015
- May 31: State election in Styria 2015
- September 27: State election in Upper Austria 2015 and municipal council and mayoral elections in Upper Austria 2015
- October 11: State and municipal council elections in Vienna 2015 and district representative elections in Vienna 2015
Sports
- December 27, 2014 to January 6: In the 63rd Four Hills Tournament is Stefan Kraft overall winner
- 15-25 January: Austria wins five medals at the 11th FIS Snowboard World Championship on Kreischberg
- 17th and 18th January and 20th and 21st March: Austrian championships in cross-country skiing 2015
- 25th to 30th January: European Olympic Winter Youth Festival 2015 in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein
- January 30th to February 1st: Austrian Badminton Championship 2015 in Linz
- 2nd-15th February: At the Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 in Beaver Creek, the ÖSV wins nine medals
- 18.-21. February: Austrian International 2015 in Vienna
- February 18–1. March: Austria wins five medals at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2015
- March 21: Marcel Hirscher becomes the first alpine racer to be the overall World Cup winner for the fourth time in a row
- March 22nd: Anna Fenninger wins the overall World Cup for the second time
- April 8th to 12th: Austria won eight medals at the table football world championship in Turin
- April 12th: 32nd Vienna City Marathon : 42,742 runners from 129 nations took part in Austria's largest sporting event with active participants, which is a new record.
- April 14: End of the season of the Austrian Ice Hockey League 2014/15
- April 18: Start of the 2015 Bundesliga baseball season
- May 17th: Ironman 70.3 Austria
- May 23: Dominic Thiem wins the ATP tennis tournament in Nice
- May 31: The 28th Austrian Women's Run takes place in Vienna . With around 33,000 female athletes, this is the second largest running event in Austria.
- June 13: The Vorarlberg European Karate Champion Bettina Plank wins the first Austrian medal with silver at the first European Games in history.
- June 21: 2015 Austrian Grand Prix
- June 26th to 28th: 2015 Whitewater Racing World Championships in Vienna
- June 28: At the 2015 European Games, Austrian athletes won a total of 13 medals , including two gold, seven silver and four bronze medals
- 3rd and 4th July: Men's Fistball European Cup 2015 in Linz
- 4th to 12th July: Tour of Austria 2015 - Stefan Denifl is best Austrian, Felix Großschartner wins the mountain classification
- July 5th: The golfer Bernd Wiesberger wins the Open de France
- 17th to 19th July: U-21 European Fistball Championship 2015 in Peilstein
- July 19 to 26: European Inline Speed Skating Championships 2015 in Wörgl and Innsbruck
- July 19-20: Nuremberg Gastein Ladies 2015 qualifying rounds
- July 20th to 26th: Nuremberg Gastein Ladies 2015
- July 21-28 : 2015 European Youth Pool Billiards Championships in St. Johann im Pongau
- July 26th: Dominic Thiem wins the Umag ATP tournament
- 28 July to 2 August: Beach volleyball European championship 2015 in Klagenfurt
- July 30th to August 1st: Austrian Open 2015 in St. Johann im Pongau
- August 2nd: Dominic Thiem wins the Gstaad ATP tournament
- 3rd to 8th August: Generali Open Kitzbühel 2015
- 8th to 9th August: Austrian State Championships in Athletics 2015
- 23 August: Inline Alpine Junior European Championship 2015 in Bramberg am Wildkogel
- 15th to 23rd August: 19th International Vienna Chess Open 2015 with around 700 chess players from all over the world in the ballroom of the Vienna City Hall
- September: Start of the season of the Austrian Ice Hockey League 2015/16
- June 7th: World Dance Championships 2015 - WM Professional Division Showdance Latin in Vienna City Hall. Kathrin Menzinger and Vadim Garbuzov became world champions
- September 1st: The Tyrolean Daniel Federspiel becomes world champion at the Mountain Bike World Championships 2015 in Andorra.
- September 4th to 6th: Austria Triathlon
- September 5th: Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon
- September 8: The Austrian national soccer team qualifies for participation in the 2016 European Soccer Championship in France with a 4-1 victory over Sweden
- September 29: The men's team of the Austrian Table Tennis Association (ÖTTV) becomes European champions in the team competition for the first time in the history of ÖTTV at the 2015 European Table Tennis Championships .
- October 4th: Stefan Fegerl and João Monteiro become European champion in table tennis doubles
- October 10th to 18th: Generali Ladies Linz 2015 / Qualification and Generali Ladies Linz 2015
- October 19-25: Erste Bank Open 2015 in Vienna
- 23 to 26 October: Austrian pool championship 2015
- October 29: Lottery gala night of sports and award of the Austrian athlete of the year in the Austria Center Vienna
- November 21: World Dance Championships 2015 - World Cup Latin in the Multiversum in Schwechat
- November 22nd: World Dance Championships 2015 - WM Professional Division Showdance Standard in the Multiversum in Schwechat. Kathrin Menzinger and Vadim Garbuzov became world champions
- December 12th: World Dance Championships 2015 - World Cup Formation Latin in Wiener Neustadt
- December 13th to 19th: Ice Hockey World Championship for U20 Juniors 2016 (Division IA) in Vienna
- December 26th and 27th: Austrian State Speed Skating Championships 2016 in the Innsbruck Olympic Hall
- December 28 to January 6, 2016: Four Hills Tournament 2015/16
Championships, cups and leagues
- Austrian football championship 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian Football Women's Championship 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian Football Cup 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian Women's Football Cup 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian handball championship 2014/15 and 2015/16
- ÖHB-Cup 2014/15 and 2015/16
- ÖHB Women's Cup 2014/15 and 2015/16
- German Chess League 2014/15 (Austria) and 2015/16
- German Chess League 2014/15 (Austria, women) and 2015/16
- Austrian Football League 2015
- Austrian Football Division One 2015
- Pool billiards Bundesliga 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian Hockey Bundesliga (field, men) 2015/16
- Austrian Alpine Ski Championships 2015
- Austrian handball championship (women) 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Women's ice hockey Bundesliga 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Admiral Basketball Bundesliga 2015/16
- Floorball Bundesliga Austria 2014/15 and 2015/16
- Austrian volleyball championship 2014/15 (men) and 2015/16
- Austrian Volleyball Championship 2014/15 (women) and 2015/16
- Austrian Volleyball Cup 2014/15 (men) and 2015/16
- Austrian Volleyball Cup 2014/15 (women) and 2015/16
music
- January 1st: New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic 2015
- February 12: Rammelhof wins the protest song contest with Vladimir (Put Put Putin)
- March 13: The Makemakes emerged as the winners in the Austrian preliminary decision for the 2015 Song Contest
- March 29: Amadeus Awards 2015
- 6-11 April: The International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition takes place in Vienna for the 9th time
- 19.-23. May: Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in the Wiener Stadthalle
- 4th-6th June: Rock in Vienna
- 4th-6th June: 36th Austrian Brass Music Festival in Vienna
- 12-14 June: The Nova Rock Festival takes place for the 11th time
- 25.-28. June: Woodstock's brass band
- 26.-28. June: 32nd Danube Island Festival
- 23-26 July: Popfest in Vienna
- August 14th to September 6th: Grafenegg Festival
- 20.-22. August: FM4 Frequency Festival
- September 3 to 13: Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt
- September 18th to 20th: The Folk Culture Festival Aufsteirern takes place for the 14th time in Graz
- List of number one hits in Austria (2015)
Film, television and radio
- January 12th: Beginning of the TV series Vorstadtweiber
- January 28: Austrian Film Award 2015
- March 11-15 : Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival
- March 17-22: A total of 157 films will be shown at the Diagonale film festival in Graz
- March 27th: The ORF series Altes Geld is published on the film platform of the ORF subsidiary Flimmit
- April 25: Romy Awards 2015
- May 8th: The eight-member Piccanto ensemble from Salzburg wins the ORF broadcast The Great Chance for Choirs
- June 1st: Dori Bauer wins the Austrian Radio Prize as the best presenter and Robert Kratky as the best presenter
- June 12th - 18th: Amateur film festival Festival of Nations in Lenzing
- June 30: Premiere of Blockbuster - Life is a Film , a charity film for the benefit of St. Anna Children's Cancer Research
- July 4th - September 6th: Film Festival on Vienna's Rathausplatz
- July 23: World premiere of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation in Vienna
- October 24th: As part of the ORF program 9 Places - 9 Treasures , the Formarinsee with the Rote Wand was chosen as the most beautiful place in Austria.
- Film year 2015 in Austria
Theatrical releases of Austrian productions
date | Movie title |
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January 9th | I see I see |
January 23 | Casanova Variations |
January 30th | Gruber goes |
January 30th | Austria: above and below |
5. March | Eternal life |
March, 20th | Super world |
March, 20th | Over the years |
27th of March | Ma slide |
3rd of April | Ghost hunters - on the icy trail |
10th of April | Three eggs in a glass |
April 24th | The last summer of the rich |
April 24th | Hubert von Goisern - Brenna has been doing it for a long time |
June 19th | No turning back from now on |
August 14th | Planet Ottakring |
August 27 | The Blunt King |
September 11 | Jack |
September 18 | Summer in Vienna |
25th of September | Chucks |
9th October | The Visit |
November 6th | Knight Trenk |
November 13th | The Trapp family - a life dedicated to music |
20th November | One of us |
December 18th | Help, I've shrunk my teacher |
Theater / stage
- March 6th: The Salzburg Festival announces that the previous artistic director at the Lower Austria State Theater, Bettina Hering , will take over the role of Drama Director of the Salzburg Festival from 2017. She is the first woman in this position.
- May 14th - June 21st: Vienna Festival Weeks . The opening will be the first time the Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in the park at Schönbrunn instead.
- June 8th: Awarding of the Austrian Music Theater Prize at the Ronacher in Vienna
- July 9th to August 2nd: The Tyrolean Festival Erl is attended by more than 22,000 people.
- July 18: Opening of the 2015 Salzburg Festival . 188 performances at 12 venues are on the program until August 30.
- JULY 22: The Bregenz Festival has Turandot on the floating stage premiere. The opera is on the program 26 times until 23 August.
- August 12th: The 39th Innsbruck Festival of Early Music opens with the opera Il Germanico by Nicola Porpora, last staged in the 18th century
- September 25th to October 18th: Festival for contemporary art Styrian Autumn
- November 2: Awarding of the 2015 Nestroy Theater Prize
- November 3: Awarding of the Austrian Cabaret Prize 2015
- Burgtheater casts from 2014
- Premiere cast of the Vienna State Opera from 2014 (2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons)
- Theater an der Wien:
Memorial days
- January 16: The Austrian youth culture and music channel FM4 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the start of broadcasting
- February 1 and 2: 70 years ago, over 400 prisoners who had escaped from the Mauthausen concentration camp were murdered in the so-called Mühlviertel hare hunt
- February 3: Before 40, Zeit in Bild 2 was broadcast for the first time
- March 12: 650 years of the University of Vienna
- March 20: 100th birthday of Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger
- March 24: 250 years of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
- March 24th and 25th: Around 200 Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers were murdered in the Rechnitz massacre in 1945
- March 26: On the occasion of Viktor Frankl's 110th birthday, the Viktor Frankl Museum opens in Vienna's Mariannengasse
- March 31: 50 years ago the resistance fighter Ernst Kirchweger was seriously injured in a demonstration against the anti-Semitic university professor Taras Borodajkewycz . He succumbs to his injuries on April 2, 1965.
- April 1st: 100th birthday of the actor OW Fischer ; 40 years ago, Am dam des was broadcast for the first time
- April 6th and 7th: 70 years ago, about 550–650 prisoners were killed in the massacre in Stein prison and the subsequent so-called “Kremser Hasenjagd”
- April 6th to 13th: 70 years ago, in the course of the Vienna operation , fighting broke out in the city of Vienna
- April 7th: The cabaret artist and operetta and hit writer Fritz Grünbaum was born 135 years ago
- April 8: Operation Radetzky was discovered 70 years ago and several officers, including Karl Biedermann , were executed
- April 12th: Seventy years ago, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna was badly damaged by fire
- April 14: The ÖAAB was founded 70 years ago , the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) was re-established
- April 15: The ÖGB was founded 70 years ago
- April 17th: The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was founded 70 years ago
- April 20: Federal President Adolf Schärf was born 125 years ago
- April 23: The glycol wine scandal was exposed 30 years ago
- April 27: 70 years ago, the proclamation of the independence of Austria and the constitution of the provisional state government, chaired by Karl Renner . For the first time, the state ceremony to commemorate the re-establishment of the Republic of Austria took place at the state foundation monument.
- May 1st: 150 years of the Vienna Ringstrasse
- May 5th: Day of Remembrance against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism
- May 8th: The Second World War ended 70 years ago and the Festival of Joy takes place for the third time on Heldenplatz in Vienna
- May 9: 50th anniversary of Leopold Figl's death
- May 15th: The Austrian State Treaty was signed 60 years ago ; Rock Me Amadeus was released 30 years ago
- June 9: 200 years ago the Congress of Vienna ended with the signing of the congress acts
- June 11: 20 years ago Thomas Muster became the first and so far only Austrian to win a Grand Slam tournament at the 1995 French Open
- June 12: The painter Egon Schiele was born in Tulln on the Danube 125 years ago
- July 27: 650th anniversary of the death of Rudolf IV , Duke of Austria
- July 29: 25th anniversary of the death of Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky
- August 1st: 60 years ago the ORF broadcast the first television program; Ernst Jandl was born 90 years ago
- August 3rd: 80 years ago the Grossglockner High Alpine Road was opened; Cardinal Franz König was born 110 years ago
- August 13: 150th anniversary of the death of the doctor Ignaz Semmelweis
- August 23: 150th anniversary of the death of the painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
- September 7th: 40 years ago Niki Lauda won his first world title
- September 15: 70 years ago the composer Anton Webern was shot dead by an American soldier
- September 20th: 450 years of the Spanish Riding School
- October 4th: 150 years of the Vienna tram
- October 14th: 60 years ago the Burgtheater was reopened with King Ottokar's Glück und Ende
- October 19: 90 years ago, Eisenstadt was designated the seat of the Burgenland provincial government and thus de facto the provincial capital
- October 26: National Day
- November 4: 175 years of the Montan University Leoben
- November 5th: 60 years ago the Vienna State Opera reopened with the opera Fidelio
- November 6: 200 years of the Vienna University of Technology
Selection of known deceased
January
- January 3: Kurt Kuch , investigative journalist and investigator for the news magazine News
- 9 January: Emil Breisach , writer, 1968–1988 regional director of the ORF regional studio in Styria and co-founder of the Styrian Autumn festival
- January 14th: Lotte Hass , diving pioneer
- 17th January: Paul Kaufmann , writer, politician and co-founder of the Styrian Autumn Festival
- January 17th: Peter Schleicher , Austropopper
- January 18th: Vera Kottek , table tennis player
- January 21: Waldemar Kmentt , tenor at the Vienna State Opera
- January 24th: Hilde Schwarzkopf , owner of the Plansee Group
- January 29th: Walter Glechner , SK Rapid Wien captain and Austrian national player
- January 30th: Carl Djerassi , chemist and inventor of the birth control pill
February
- February 1: Heinz Karbus , architect
- February 17th: Oswald Fuchs , actor and director
- February 20: Friedrich Zawrel , victim of National Socialism
- February 22nd: Charles Kálmán , film and stage composer
- FEBRUARY 23: Erwin Fischer , ORF presenter
March
- March 1st: Franz Hums , SPÖ Minister of Social Affairs from 1995 to 1997
- March 7th: Michael Mohapp , actor and cabaret artist
- March 19: Berthold Mayr , media pastor
- March 26: Karl Moik , TV presenter and entertainer
April
- April 3: Traute Foresti , poet, ORF ( Welt des Buches , ex libris )
- April 14: Franz Kreuzer , Federal Minister for Health and Environmental Protection from 1985 to 1987
- April 16: Eduard Koblmüller , extreme mountaineer
- April 18: Giselbert Hoke , painter and graphic artist
- April 20: Frederic Morton , writer
- April 23: Hans Klecatsky , Federal Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1970
May
- May 4th: Wolfgang Suppan , musicologist
- May 8: Franz Grabmayr , painter
- May 11: Gideon Singer , actor
- May 29: Käthe Recheis , children's and young adult book author
- May 29: Bernd Schilcher , education expert, politician and university professor
- May 30th: Christiane Sorell , soprano at the Vienna Volksoper
- May 31: Karl Wlaschek , founder of the Austrian retail chain Billa
June
- June 2nd: Günther Schneider-Siemssen , chief stage designer of the Austrian Federal Theaters
- June 7th: Roland Ertl , architect
- June 12: Franz Wilhelm , solo dancer of the Vienna State Opera
- June 13: Rudolf Buczolich , actor and artistic director
- June 14: Walter Weller , concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, conductor
- June 22nd: Irma Schwager , resistance fighter
- June 23: Helmuth Lohner , actor and theater director
- June 27: Gerd Bacher , ORF General Director
- June 28: Ludwig Steiner , State Secretary and Member of the National Council
July
- July 8: Joe Rappold , ORF radio presenter ( Ö3-Wecker , Joe's night club , Radio Vienna)
- July 9: Josef Hopferwieser , opera singer (tenor)
- July 12th: Richard Trenkwalder , founder of Trenkwalder Personaldienste and Trenkwalder International
- July 20: Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager , member of the National Council, Vienna City Councilor
- July 21: Günter Fronius , founder of Fronius International
- July 24th: Ernst Trost , journalist and book author
- July 25: Josef Staudinger , President of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Lower Austria
- July 29th: Leo Wallner , President of the ÖOC and General Director of Casinos Austria
August
- August 3: Kurt Lukasek , politician
- August 9: Thomas Schüler , actor
- August 16: Paul Weiland , Superintendent of the Protestant Church in Lower Austria
- August 17th: Peter Janisch , actor, director, director and founder of the Gutenstein Festival
- August 20: Peter Brandstätter , painter
- August 26th: Peter Kern , director and actor
September
- September 1: Hans Seidel , head of WIFO from 1973 to 1981 and of IHS from 1984 to 1990
- September 5: Karl Mang , architect
- September 13th: Fritz Kaindl , cardiologist, initiator of the Schach dem Herztod campaign
- September 13: Carl E. Schorske , historian, honorary citizen of the City of Vienna
- September 19: Georg Eder , Archbishop of Salzburg
- September 21: Karl Lausecker , Federal Minister of Transport from 1977 to 1984
- September 26: Walter Kamper , pianist and university professor
- September 29th: Jean Margulies , politician and union official
October
- October 1: Gottfried Schatz , biochemist
- October 7th: Roman Schliesser , society reporter and columnist for the Kronenzeitung
- October 19: Ena Kadić , Miss Austria 2013
- October 26: Birgit Doll , actress and theater director
November
- November 9th: Ernst Fuchs , painter
- November 24th: Heinz Oberhummer , physicist and member of the Science Busters
- November 28: Luc Bondy , director of the Wiener Festwochen from 2002 to 2013
December
- December 8th: Herbert Prikopa , ORF presenter ( also has to have fun ), conductor and pianist
- December 9th: Soshana , painter
- December 19: Erwin Reiter , sculptor and painter
- December 22nd: Freda Meissner-Blau , co-founder of the Austrian Greens
- December 24th: Roland Kenda , member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble
Gallery of the deceased
January 14: Lotte Hass (2004)
January 30: Carl Djerassi (2004)
February 1: Heinz Karbus (2002)
February 20: Friedrich Zawrel (2013)
February 22: Charles Kálmán (2014)
March 26: Karl Moik (2011)
April 14: Franz Kreuzer (1987)
April 20: Frederic Morton (2013)
June 13: Rudolf Buczolich (2013)
June 23: Helmuth Lohner (2015)
June 28: Ludwig Steiner (2008)
July 12: Richard Trenkwalder (2008)
July 29: Leo Wallner (2008)
August 16: Paul Weiland (2010)
August 20: Peter Brandstätter (2014)
August 26: Peter Kern (2013)
October 7: Roman Schliesser (2013)
November 9: Ernst Fuchs (2007)
November 24th: Heinz Oberhummer (2011)
November 28: Luc Bondy (2013)
December 9: Soshana (1956)
December 22nd: Freda Meissner-Blau (2009)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
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