Austria 2016

This article lists events in 2016 in Austria .

General

FEBRUARY 4: The 60th Vienna Opera Ball is of Plácido Domingo and Olga Peretyatko opened
April 3: ORF and Falter publish their research results on the Panama Papers
April 10: The Financial Market Authority (FMA) orders a haircut for Heta Asset Resolution , the wind-down unit of the former Carinthian Hypo Alpe-Adria. Senior creditors have to forego 53.98 percent of their claims, while subordinate creditors have to forego all of their money.
26./27. April: onset of winter in southern Austria
April 30th to October 30th: State Exhibition Salzburg 2016
MAY 8: The festival of joy is the fourth time at the Vienna Heldenplatz place
June 10: 12th Long Night of Churches
June 13th: Neuroscientist Peter Jonas from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria is awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , endowed with 1.5 million euros
June 18: Rainbow Parade
June 30th to July 2nd: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2016 in Klagenfurt
August 9: Alexander Wrabetz is elected ORF General Director for the third time in a row with 18 out of 35 votes , Richard Grasl receives 15 of the 35 votes.
August 16: The Wirtschaftsblatt announces the discontinuation, the last issue should appear on September 2
17th August to 2nd September: European Forum Alpbach 2016
2nd / 3rd September: After a three-year break, AirPower took place again with around 300,000 visitors
10/11 September: Open House took place in Vienna for the third time, and more than 80 buildings could be viewed.
October 1st: Long Night of the Museums
October 24th: Award of the Austrians of the year 2016
October 25th: Presentation of the Big Brother Awards in Vienna's Rabenhof Theater
November 8th: Awarding of the Austrian Book Prize 2016
November 14: Awarding of the Austrian Climate Protection Prize 2016
November 30th to December 4th: At the EuroSkills European Professional Championship in Gothenburg, the Austrian team won fourteen medals, five of which were gold, five times silver and four times bronze

December 9: Announcement of the Austrian word of the year 2016

December 16: Announcement of the Austrian Journalists of the Year

December 31: The Vienna-Umgebung district was dissolved on December 31, 2016

Election dates

January 31: Election of the Chamber of Agriculture in Styria

February 28: Municipal and mayor elections in Tyrol 2016 (last election 2010 )

March 5th: Counting day of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Agriculture's election

April 17th: Local council election in St. Pölten 2016 (last election 2011 )

April 24: Election of the Federal President in Austria in 2016

May 22nd: Runoff election for the Federal President

September 18: Repetition of the district representative election in Vienna-Leopoldstadt

November 6: Election of the Chamber of Agriculture in Carinthia, 71,000 people are eligible to vote

December 4th: Repetition of the runoff election for the Federal President election

politics

Meeting of John Kerry and Yukiya Amano in Vienna on the Iranian nuclear program

Inauguration of the new Minister of the Federal Government Kern

January 1st: Austria takes over the presidency of the Central European Defense Cooperation

11 January: The parliamentary Hypo investigation committee continues its work.

January 15: Following the announcement of the candidacy of Social Affairs Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer in the federal presidential election in Austria in 2016, the SPÖ decides to reorganize the federal government of Faymann II . Alois Stöger becomes Minister of Social Affairs, Gerald Klug becomes Minister of Infrastructure , and Hans Peter Doskozil becomes Minister of Defense . The inauguration took place on January 26th.

January 16: After the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, the return of the Iranian nuclear program confirmed and the obligations under the agreed in July 2015 in Vienna nuclear deal are met, after further discussions in Vienna's Palais Coburg the years of economic and financial sanctions against Iran by the European Union and the United States repealed.

January 20: The government announces a cap on the number of refugees . In 2016, 37,500 asylum seekers are to be admitted, by 2019 there should be a maximum of 127,500.

27 January: The governing parties SPÖ and ÖVP pass the Police State Protection Act in parliament with a simple majority .

February 24th: Western Balkans Conference in Vienna

March 1: Member of the National Council, Marcus Franz, leaves the ÖVP parliamentary club

March 31 and April 1: Conference of the Defense Ministers of the Central European Defense Cooperation member states as well as Poland, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro in Vienna. The central issue is the refugee crisis .

April 10: The ÖVP board decides to reshuffle the government: Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner moves to Lower Austria as Deputy Governor , Finance Minister Wolfgang Sobotka takes over the interior department. Sobotka was sworn in as Minister of the Interior on April 21, 2016.

April 27: The National Council approves an amendment to the Asylum Act 2005

April 28: Ban Ki-moon gives the first speech after the right to speak for outstanding personalities as well as for members of the European Parliament in the plenary session of the National Council

May 9: Federal Chancellor and SPÖ leader Werner Faymann announces his resignation

MAY 11: The Austrian State Governors' Conference and Minister of Defense Hans Peter Doskozil decide a halt to the army reform. In mid-June, Doskozil presented details of the 2016 army reform

May 16 and 17: In Vienna, top politicians from over 20 countries discuss approaches to resolving the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh , Syria and Libya

May 17: Christian Kern is sworn in as Federal Chancellor of the Federal Government of Kern

May 18: Inauguration of Education Minister Sonja Hammerschmid , Chancellery Minister Thomas Drozda , Infrastructure Minister Jörg Leichtfried and State Secretary Muna Duzdar

June 9: The main committee of the National Council nominates the ÖVP candidate Margit Kraker as President of the Court of Auditors

July 1: The Constitutional Court completely revokes the runoff election for the federal presidential election in Austria 2016 , the election must be repeated throughout Austria

July 8: The term of office of Federal President Heinz Fischer ends.

September 21: The National Council decides to postpone the repeat of the Federal President's runoff election to December 4. Originally this should have taken place on October 2nd. It was also decided to update the electoral roll, the prerequisite for the right to vote is now that the person turns 16 on election day.

10/11 October: The chairman of the public service union (GÖD), Fritz Neugebauer , declares his resignation after 19 years in office. Norbert Schnedl is elected as his successor and thus the seventh GÖD chairman in the Second Republic .

October 29th: Congress of Defenders of Europe in Linz

November 9: The National Council decides to introduce a central register of voters. In future, it should be possible to electronically support referendums using the citizen card or the mobile phone signature .

Sports

Bronze medal winners Tanja Frank and Thomas Zajac in the 2016 Olympic outfit

The athlete of the year 2016

December 28, 2015 to January 6: Four Hills Tournament 2015/16

7th to 11th January: Ice Hockey World Championship for U18 women 2016 - qualification for Division I in Spittal an der Drau and Radenthein

14 to 17 January: In the FIS Ski Flying World Championships 2016 at the Kulm ski jump at Kulmkogel in Bad Mitterndorf brings Stefan Kraft two bronze medals

19 to 24 January: 76th Hahnenkamm race

29th to 31st January: At the Luge World Championships 2016 in Königssee , Wolfgang Kindl won the bronze medal in the men's singles, Georg Fischler and Peter Penz won the silver medal in the doubles sprint

February 5: The Skeleton European Championship 2016 is Janine Flock for the second time European champion

5th to 7th February: Austrian Badminton Championship 2016

February 7th: Kaiser-Maximilian-Lauf in Seefeld in Tirol

February 7: Benjamin Maier, Marco Rangl, Markus Sammer and Danut Ion Moldovan win the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2016 European Bobsleigh Championship

February 8-21 : 2016 Skeleton World Championship and 2016 Bobsleigh World Championship on the Igls bobsleigh rink
February 12-21: At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games , Austria won a total of 10 medals, 2 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze
February 14: Dominic Thiem wins the ATP tournament in Buenos Aires
February 28: Dominic Thiem wins his fifth ATP title in Acapulco
March 5th: Marcel Hirscher wins the Men's Alpine Ski World Cup for the fifth time in a row

March 20: Eva-Maria Brem wins the women's alpine ski world cup in giant slalom

2nd to 12th April: 2016 European Pool Billiards Championship in St. Johann im Pongau

April 10: Vienna City Marathon

April 14th to 16th: Austrian Open 2016

May 1st: Salzburg Marathon

May 22nd: Austrian Women's Run and Ironman 70.3 Austria

June 14-22: Austrian national team at the European Football Championship 2016

June 10th to 12th: Austrian Darts Open 2016

June 11: Eurobowl XXX in Innsbruck

June 13: Dominic Thiem wins the ATP tournament in Stuttgart as the first Austrian to win a lawn tournament on the ATP tour

July 1st to 3rd: Grand Prix of Austria 2016

July 2nd to 9th: Tour of Austria 2016

July 16: The Allianz Stadium opens

July 18-23: Generali Open 2016

July 30th to 31st: Austrian State Championships in Athletics 2016

August 4th: Albin Ouschan becomes the first Austrian world champion in the 9-ball pool discipline
5th to 21st August: Austria at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- August 16: Tanja Frank and Thomas Zajac win the bronze medal in the Nacra 17 class at the Summer Olympics
August 14: Motorcycle World Championship 2016 - Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring
August 26th to 28th: 2016 European Fistball Championship in Grieskirchen
August 27: Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon
7th to 18th September: Austria at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
September 2nd to 4th: Austria Triathlon
September 20: The Austrian women's national soccer team qualifies for the first time for a final round at European championships
October 10th to 16th: Generali Ladies Linz 2016
23 to 26 October: Austrian pool championship 2016
October 24th to 30th: Erste Bank Open 2016 in Vienna
October 27: Presentation of the 2016 Athlete of the Year award
October 29: Alisa Buchinger wins the gold medal in the Kumite for women up to 68 kilograms at the Karate World Championships 2016 in Linz and thus after Daniel Devigili (1994) the second gold medal for the Austrian Karate Association overall.

December 9th: Albin Ouschan wins the Mosconi Cup 2016 with the European team and is the first Austrian to be named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

December 29 to January 6, 2017: Four Hills Tournament 2016/17

Championships, cups and leagues

music

Jury, moderators and winner of the Austrian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016

January 1: New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic 2016

1st to 11th February: 12th International Mozart Competition Salzburg

February 12: Sarah Lesch wins the protest song contest with a will

FEBRUARY 12: The Austrian selection for Euro Song Contest 2016 wins Zoe Straub , resulting in the final round against Elly V interspersed could

April 3: Amadeus Awards 2016

3rd to 5th June: Rock in Vienna

3rd to 6th June: Austrian brass music festival in Vienna

June 9-12 : Nova Rock Festival

June 24th to 26th: Danube Island Festival

July 28th to 31st: Popfest in Vienna

August 17th to 20th: FM4 Frequency Festival

August 19 to September 11: Grafenegg Festival

September 8th to 18th: Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt

September 16 to 18: Folk culture festival in Aufsteirern

October 25th: National Day concert

List of number one hits in Austria (2016)

Film, television and radio

The winners of the Austrian Film Prize 2016 in the auditorium of Grafenegg Castle, Lower Austria

January 14th: The Austrian-German short film Alles wird gut is nominated for an Oscar.

January 20: Austrian Film Award 2016

January 24: The Austrian Drama of us One is with the Max Ophüls Prize awarded

March 4: Start of the 10th season of the ORF program Dancing Stars

March 2-6 : Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival

March 8th to 13th: Diagonale film festival in Graz

March 29th: Start of the ORF television program Guten Morgen Österreich

April 1st: Filmball Vienna

April 16: Romy Awards 2016

May 13th to 19th: Amateur film festival Festival of Nations in Lenzing

June 20: Austrian Radio Prize

July 14th to September 4th: Film Festival on Vienna's Rathausplatz

September 26: The first broadcast of the four-part television series Pregau - No way back begins

October 26th: As part of the ORF program 9 Places - 9 Treasures , Austria's most beautiful place is chosen for the third time

November 25th: On the ORF broadcast The Great Chance of Choirs , the Pöllau group of singers wins , followed by the Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen and the VOK from Leibnitz

December 27: First broadcast of the television film Das Sacher by director Robert Dornhelm

Theatrical releases of Austrian productions

date	Movie title
January 22nd	My Talk with Florence
January 29th	Like brothers in the wind
March 11	Fly maybeetle
March 18th	Thank you for bombing
April 1st	Hanna's sleeping dogs
May 13th	Athos - In the beyond this world
2th of June	Before the dawn
2th of June	Menandros & Thaïs
15th of July	Toni Erdmann
29th of July	Code name Holec
26th of August	Hotel rock and roll
the 9th of September	Lou Andreas-Salomé
16th September	Traceroute
September 19th	Zero crash
September 23rd	What was it that ruined us?
30. September	My flesh and blood
October 7th	Egon Schiele: Death and Maiden
October 7th	Fog in August
28th of October	Hidden reserves
November 4th	Male cat
November 11th	The middle of the world
November 11th	Farmer our
November 18	The night of the 1000 hours
2. December	Love maybe
December 8th	Atonement House
December 16	The dreamed
23rd of December	Attack of the lederhosen zombies

Film year 2016 in Austria

Theater / stage

Summer Night Concert 2016

Winner of the Nestroy Awards 2016

Prize winners of the Austrian Cabaret Prize 2016

May 13th - June 19th: Vienna Festival Weeks

May 26: Summer night concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in the Schönbrunn palace gardens

June 27: Awarding of the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2016

July 6th to August 19th: St. Margarethen Opera Festival

7th to 31st July: Tyrolean Festival Erl

7th July to 20th August: Mörbisch Lake Festival

July 19 to August 27: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

July 22nd to August 31st: Salzburg Festival 2016

July 20 to August 21: Bregenz Festival

Opera casts at the Bregenz Festival from 2015

September 1st: World premiere of the tragedy Nobody by Ödön von Horváth at the Theater in der Josefstadt

September 23 to October 16: Festival for contemporary art Styrian Autumn

September 30th: World premiere of the musical Schikaneder in the Raimund Theater in Vienna

Burgtheater casts from 2014

Premiere cast of the Vienna State Opera 2015/2016 (season 2015/16 and 2016/17)

Theater an der Wien:

November 7th: Awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2016 / Nestroy Theater Prize

November 8th: Presentation of the Austrian Cabaret Prize to Thomas Maurer (main prize), Hosea Ratschiller and RaDeschnig (program prize), Lisa Eckhart (sponsorship prize), Gerhard Haderer (special prize) and what's new? (Audience award)

Memorial days

Admiral Tegetthoff in the naval battle of Lissa

Collapsed Reichsbrücke

Franz Joseph on his death bed

27 January: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 260th birthday

February 19: 100th anniversary of the death of the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach

1./2. March: 30 years ago, the capital question of Lower Austria was decided by referendum

March 12th: 100th anniversary of the death of the writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

April 1st: The journalist Otto Schulmeister , long-time editor-in-chief and publisher of the daily newspaper Die Presse , was born 100 years ago

April 7th: 250 years ago, Emperor Joseph II, as Maria Theresa's co-regent, released the Vienna Prater for general use

April 7th: The founding party conference of the FPÖ took place 60 years ago , and Anton Reinthaller became the first federal party chairman

April 28: The mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel was born 110 years ago

May 1st: 200 years ago Salzburg finally came to Austria

May 5th: Day of Remembrance against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism

May 25: The Army History Museum in Vienna was opened by Emperor Franz Joseph 125 years ago

May 26: 25 years ago, 223 people were killed in a Lauda Air plane crash in Thailand

June 1: The Oesterreichische Nationalbank was founded 200 years ago

June 22nd: 80 years ago the physicist and philosopher Moritz Schlick was shot by his former student Hans Nelböck on the Philosophenstiege at the University of Vienna

July 13: 175th birthday of the architect Otto Wagner

July 20: The naval battle of Lissa took place 150 years ago

August 1st: The Reichsbrücke collapsed 40 years ago , Niki Lauda had an accident at the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring

August 5th: The Battle of Peterwardein took place 300 years ago

August 23: 100 years ago the actor and cabaret artist Maxi Böhm was born; Natascha Kampusch managed to escape ten years ago after being kidnapped and imprisoned for eight years

September 5th: The writer Heimito von Doderer was born 120 years ago

September 29th: 30th anniversary of the death of actor and cabaret artist Helmut Qualtinger

October 2: 25 years ago the space mission Austromir 91 started , Franz Viehböck was the first Austrian to fly into space

October 8: The University of Linz was opened 50 years ago

October 17: The Art History Museum was opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I 125 years ago

OCTOBER 21: 100 years ago, was kk Minister Karl Stürgkh from the Social Democratic politician Friedrich Adler shot

November 21: 100th anniversary of the death of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

November 29th: Chancellor Julius Raab was born 125 years ago

December 5th: 100th anniversary of the death of the conductor Hans Richter

December 19th: 200th birthday of Franz Sacher , inventor of the Sachertorte

December 23: 50th anniversary of the death of the writer Heimito von Doderer

December 28: 100th anniversary of the death of Eduard Strauss , composer, conductor and member of the Strauss dynasty

Selection of known deceased

January

January 6th: Wolfgang Purtscheller , journalist and author
January 15th: Kurt Bergmann , initiator of Licht ins Dunkel
January 16: Joannis Avramidis , sculptor
January 19: Alexander Giese , author and journalist, President of the Austrian PEN Club
January 20: George Weidenfeld , journalist, publisher and diplomat
January 31: Walter Wippersberg , writer

February

February 3: Manfred Scheuch , journalist, historian and author
February 4th: Maria Loley , social worker and refugee worker
February 6: Herbert Hiesmayr , art teacher, painter, author and local history researcher
February 18: Federik Mirdita , opera director, among others at the Vienna State Opera and at the Theater an der Wien
February 26: Michael Szyszkowitz , architect, founder of Szyszkowitz + Kowalski

March

March 5th: Nikolaus Harnoncourt , conductor
March 12: Rudolf Sarközi , political activist, representative of the Austrian Roma
March 21: Alexander Lhotzky , ensemble member of the Vienna Volkstheater
March 22nd: Günther Theuring , conductor and choir director, founder of the Vienna Jeunesse Choir
March 31: Zaha Hadid , architect (Bergiselschanze, library of the WU Vienna, Zaha-Hadid-Haus) and professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

April

April 4th: Dieter Haspel , director, co-founder and long-time director of the Ensemble Theater Wien
April 7th: Gerhard Kovasits , chairman of the FPÖ Burgenland
April 16: Josef Kirschner , ORF presenter ( Tritsch Tratsch , WIR)
April 19: Walter Kohn , physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry
April 25: Rudolf Wessely , castle actor
April 27: Gabriele Sima , mezzo-soprano, member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera
April 30th: Gunter Damisch , painter

May

May 10: Fabjan Hafner , Carinthian-Slovenian literary scholar, poet and translator
May 18: Kurt Komarek , Rector of the University of Vienna
May 20: Adi Pinter , soccer coach and politician
May 21: Ottilie Rochus , member of the National Council
May 27: Jürgen Wilke , castle actor and director of the summer games in Stockerau, Perchtoldsdorf and Laxenburg

June

June 23: Alfred Šramek , bass-baritone, ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera
June 23: Burgi Schneider-Manns Au , ORF fashion expert and ORF presenter ( fashion , look ).
June 25th: Silvia Fenz , actress
June 25: Manfred Deix , cartoonist

July

July 11th: Peter Fröhlich , actor and singer
July 18: Ossy Kolmann , actor and cabaret artist
July 18: Sigi Maron , songwriter
July 23: Edeltrud Posiles , Righteous Among the Nations
July 28: Ludwig Prokop , sports medicine specialist and university professor
July 28: Franz Jeglitsch , Rector of the Montan University Leoben and member of the state parliament
July 31: Albert Oberhofer , Rector of the Montan University Leoben

August

9/10 August: Gerhard Tötschinger , actor, director and writer
August 10: Herbert Krejci , General Secretary of the Federation of Industrialists
August 14: Jenö Eisenberger , founder of the Löwa and PamPam supermarkets
August 21: Guido Schmidt-Chiari , General Director of Creditanstalt
August 30th: Sigrid Marquardt , castle actress and fanatic in Salzburger Jedermann

September

September 3: Marga Hubinek , politician, Second President of the National Council from 1986 to 1990
September 8: Johan Botha , opera singer
September 8th: Hannes Arch , aerobatic pilot
September 14th: John Gudenus , politician

October

October 4th: Brigitte Hamann , historian
October 7th: Felix de Mendelssohn , psychoanalyst
October 13: Gerhard Wimberger , composer
October 16: Rupert Gottfried Frieberger , organist, composer, musicologist and theologian

November

November 11: Ilse Aichinger , writer
November 19: Heribert Sasse , actor, director and theater manager
November 22nd: Gerhard Garstenauer , architect
November 28th: Georg Lhotsky , actor, film director, screenwriter and producer

December

December 11th: Trude Marzik , dialect poet
December 13th: Harry Glück , Architect
December 14th: Lotte Rysanek , opera singer
December 18: Peter Konlechner , co-founder and long-time co-director of the Austrian Film Museum
December 23: Heinrich Schiff , cellist
December 27: Robert Löffler , journalist
December 30th: Josef Krainer junior , politician, former Styrian governor