Austro-Portuguese relations

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Austro-Portuguese relations
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The Austro-Portuguese relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Austria and Portugal . The countries have problem-free relations that go back to the 15th century. Both states are members u. a. of the Council of Europe , the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe , the OECD , the European Union , the Eurozone and the Schengen Area .

Around 2,900 Portuguese live in Austria (as of early 2015), around 1,600 of whom are employees and around 200 students. The Portuguese embassy in Vienna assumes a total of around 6,000 to 7,000 people in Austria who are Portuguese or of Portuguese descent.

In Portugal, 955 Austrians live in all parts of the country, most of them with 509 in the greater Lisbon area , followed by 184 in the Algarve and 51 on the island of Madeira (as of 2017).

history

To 1900

Maria Leopoldina as regent of Portugal in 1822, during her husband, King Pedro's stay in Brazil

The marriage of Emperor Friedrich III is regarded as the first significant bilateral event . with the Portuguese Princess D. Leonor in 1452. She died shortly before her 31st birthday in 1467 and was buried in the Neukloster Abbey in Wiener Neustadt .

In the 18th century the Austro-Portuguese relations intensified. King D. João V married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria on October 27, 1708 in Lisbon . During his reign, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello , who later became known as an important statesman under the name of Marquês de Pombal , was posted . He was the Portuguese ambassador in Vienna from 1745 to 1749 and married Eleonore von Daun, a cousin of Marshal Daun, here .

In 1817 the Portuguese heir to the throne and later Emperor of Brazil D. Pedro married the Austrian Archduchess Leopoldina , who was also Queen of Portugal in 1826 before she became Empress of Brazil.

After the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , the absolutist prince and later King of Portugal D. Miguel I went into exile in Vienna in 1824.

Princess Sisi , who later became Empress of Austria, stayed on the Portuguese island of Madeira for a cure in 1860 .

The Austrian Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis married the Portuguese pretender Michael von Braganza in 1877 .

At the grave of Charles I in the Monte Church in Funchal

Since 1900

After his dismissal, the last Austrian Emperor, Charles I , went into exile in Madeira with his wife, Empress Zita , of Portuguese origin. Karl died here on April 1, 1922 of pneumonia. He was buried in the church of Nossa Senhora do Monte in Funchal .

During the Second World War , numerous people also fled from Austria to Portugal. After 1945, more than 5,000 children from Austria came to host families in Portugal for some time through the agency of Caritas. Since then, these personal relationships have had a major impact on the relationship between the two countries. Some of these connections are still maintained today.

diplomacy

The Foreign Ministers of Austria and Portugal (September 2016)

Austria has an embassy in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon , at 43 Avenida Infante Santo. There are also three Austrian honorary consulates : in Porto , in Albufeira on the Algarve, and in Funchal on the island of Madeira .

Portugal has its embassy in the Austrian capital Vienna , at Opernring No. 1. There are also Portuguese honorary consulates in Salzburg , Innsbruck , Linz and Graz .

economy

In 2015, Portugal delivered goods and services to Austria worth EUR 519.2 million (2014: 619.2 million, 2013: 417.7 million, 2012: 361.4 million, 2011: 387.4 million .), of which 24.7% vehicles and vehicle parts, 21.7% machines and devices and 17.1% clothing.

In the same period, Austria exported goods and services with a total value of 342.1 million euros to Portugal (2014: 349.7 million, 2013: 304.0 million, 2012: 311.5 million, 2011: 352.4 million .), of which 25.9% machines and devices, 11.9% chemical products and 10.9% vehicles and vehicle parts.

The Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) maintains its Portuguese Foreign Trade Center in the Austrian Embassy in Lisbon .

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (AICEP) has a branch in Vienna, at Opernring 3/1.

Culture

Institutions

Sign at the headquarters of the Austro-Portuguese Society in Vienna

The Portuguese state cultural institute Instituto Camões maintains various facilities in Austria, including two language centers in Vienna and Graz.

The Austrian-Portuguese Society (ÖPG) in Vienna has existed since 1962 and has around 240 members.

In addition, there has been an association of Austrians living there in Portugal since 1935. It is based in Sintra , has been called AUSPOR - Club AustriaPortugal since 2013 and has around 100 members.

music

Among the musicians and composers who were drawn to music in Vienna were a number of Portuguese. This included u. a. João de Bragança , Duke of Lafões , who maintained close ties to the music scene in his exile in Vienna. A particularly close friendship existed with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck , who dedicated his opera Paride ed Elena to the duke in 1770 .

In the more recent past, the Portuguese pianists Noel Flores (1935–2012) and Francisco de Brito e Cunha studied in Austria, at the Music University in Vienna and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, respectively, where they continued to teach, Brito e Cunha.

The Portuguese composer António Victorino de Almeida studied at the Vienna University of Music with Karl Schiske . As a pianist and as a conductor he appeared frequently afterwards, a. a. with Erika Pluhar . He was also a cultural attaché at the Portuguese embassy in Vienna. He also appeared as a director in Austria ( see below ).

The Austrian artist André Heller discovered the blind Portuguese singer Dona Rosa in the streets of Baixa Pombalina , the famous lower town of Lisbon. After appearing on one of his ORF television shows, she gained some international attention. I.a. She came several times on guest tours in German-speaking countries and released several albums on the German Jaro label .

literature

The Austrian National Library has a number of Portuguese manuscripts , including an anonymous description of Vasco da Gama's second trip to India and a collection of epistles by the Portuguese doctor Ribeiro Sanches (1699–1783).

The Portuguese Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature José Saramago (1922-2010) dealt in his novel The Journey of the Elephant with the historical episode from the 16th century when the Portuguese King John III. sent an elephant to the Austrian Archduke Maximilian from Lisbon across the Alps to Vienna.

The Viennese Picus Verlag has also published three books on Portugal in its Picus reading trips series .

Movie

The Portuguese composer António Victorino de Almeida (* 1940) also worked as a director during his time in Austria, for example with the film “ Marble Tables ” (1986, with Erika Pluhar and André Heller) and the ORF documentary “Together” .

The Austro-Portuguese actress Heidi Berger and the German-speaking actor Paulo Pires , who is married to the Austrian model Astrid Werdnig , are other people with an Austro-Portuguese background.

At the Curtas Vila do Conde , the most important short film festival in Portugal, Austrian directors have received several awards, such as Virgil Widrich (2003), Peter Tscherkassky (2005) and Catalina Molina (2010).

The “History of Portuguese Cinema” was published in Vienna in 2010, one of the comparatively few books in German-speaking countries about Portuguese cinema .

Museums

Mention should be made of the Portuguese pieces in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. These include João de Castro's carpet work, which the museum showed in its own exhibition from October 1992 to January 1993.

Sports

Men's soccer

In the game between Portugal and Austria in the Prinzenparkstadion on June 18, 2016

The Austrian national soccer team and the Portuguese national team met for the first time on January 26, 1936 in Porto , with a final score of 3: 2 for Austria. The highest Austrian victory against Portugal was the 9: 1 in the World Cup qualification on September 26, 1953 in Vienna, the highest Portuguese victory against Austria comes from the European Championship qualifier on November 15, 1978 in Vienna and ended 2: 1.

The last time they faced each other in a competition was in the finals of the 2016 European Football Championship in Group F. On June 18, 2016, they drew goalless. Austria later dropped out, while Portugal became European champions.

The total international match record between the two countries (as of September 6, 2016) shows six draws, three Austrian and two Portuguese victories after eleven matches, with a goal difference of 19:11 for Austria.

The Austrian Hermann Stessl worked for various clubs in Portugal in the 1980s. He was runner- up with FC Porto in 1981 and then won the Portuguese Supercup in 1982.

Women's football

The Austrian women's national soccer team and the Portuguese women's national team have met six times so far, each with three wins and a total goal difference of 7: 7.

Since 2009, takes Austria women's national football team at the Algarve Cup in part in Portugal, one of the most important tournaments in women's football, but not yet come into the last four to be (as of 2016).

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Scheidl, José A. Palma Caetano: Relações entre Portugal ea Áustria , Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon 2002 ( ISBN 978-972-37-0739-7 )

Web links

Commons : Austro-Portuguese relations  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Portrait of Austro-Portuguese relations ( memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, accessed on January 17, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmeia.gv.at
  2. ↑ a b Profile of the Portuguese Community in Austria at Medienservicestelle.at, accessed on January 17, 2017
  3. ↑ Official Portuguese Aliens Statistics by District , Portuguese Aliens and Borders Authority SEF, accessed on May 4, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c d e Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006, p. 791f ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 )
  5. ^ Page about regular meetings of former Portugal Caritas children in Styria , website of the Austro-Portuguese Society, accessed on January 18, 2017
  6. ↑ List of Austrian diplomatic and consular offices in Portugal ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on January 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmeia.gv.at
  7. ↑ Overview of the diplomatic and consular representations of Portugal in Austria at the Portuguese Embassy in Vienna, accessed on January 18, 2017
  8. ↑ Bilateral economic relations between Austria and Portugal , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP , accessed on January 18, 2017
  9. ^ Website of the Vienna office , AICEP website, accessed on January 26, 2017
  10. ↑ Institutions of the Instituto Camões in Austria , website of the Instituto Camões, accessed on January 18, 2017
  11. ↑ History of AUSPOR - Club Austria Portugal on the club website, accessed on January 18, 2017
  12. ^ Entry Francisco de Brito e Cunhas on the Mozarteum website, accessed on April 21, 2017
  13. ↑ Ralf Osang: Seefahrer, Sehns tear and Saudade - Lisbon Perspektiven (1998/2008), Rita Henss: Blossom clouds, wine and eternal spring - Madeira volcano (2007), Beate Schümann / Volker Mehnert: Himmelspeck und Fadoklang - Portuguese temptations (2008)
  14. ^ Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 .
  15. ↑ see Portuguese national football team # international match balance sheets
  16. ↑ see list of the internationals of the Portuguese national soccer team # international match balance sheets