Austria News

The female landlord made advertising with Almdudler on the window of her restaurant, but inside her restaurant she sold usual herbal juice instead of the original Almdudler. Today she was sentenced to 8 weeks prison on probation.
Almdudler is searching for such pubs and restaurants which make advertising with its famous soft drink, but give usual […]

In the Carinthian village of Wernberg two criminals dressed up as policemen entered the house of a 60-year-old pensioner. They told him they have to solve a larceny and started to search the house.
After the wrong policemen left the house, the pensioner realized that 1.800 EUR are missing in the sleeping room.
Also in Maria Saal […]

A special case of stalking was cleared up by the police in Carinthia. A 37-year-old lady made 11.000 threatening phone calls in the last 6 months.
The woman threatend her victim by day and night, and promised to commit a murder. She also demanded sex in her phone calls, and in some cases she even threatened […]

The police of Lithuania and the army of Latvia will perform its duty in future with arms from the Carinthian town of Ferlach.
The Lithuanian chief of police Vytautas Grigaravicius was very impressed about the Glock 17 and Glock 19, which should replace the Russian Makarow pistols by one quarter.
Also the Latvian army wants to trust […]

“Santa Claus is dead”, says Christine Spiess, the boss of 360 municipal kindergartens. She declares a ban for Santa Claus on entering the kindergartens in Vienna. Even Catholic kindergartens are not allowed anymore to invite Santa Claus to meet the children.
Children are afraid of Santa Claus, and after his visit many of them are extremly […]

In comparison with other European nations, Austria is the country with the most breweries per inhabitant. Danmark is on the second place, Germany third.
The Danish tourism center in Germany has made the investigation about the European beer nations, and published the result yesterday.
The ranking: 1. Austria, 2. Danmark, 3. Germany, 4. Sweden, 5. Norway, 6. […]

Once again the minister president of Carinthia, Jörg Haider, causes trouble and anger in the political scenery of Austria: he refuse to give the Austrian citizenship to a man from Sudan.
He don’t want to shake hands with women, and he was delighted about the terrorist attack on 09-11 in New York, were the main reasons […]

The president of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce Khamoushi, will meet the president of the Austrian Chamber Christoph Leitl today.
Before the meeting Khamoushi emphasized that Iran is interested in a good and stable relation with the European Union, and Austria should be the gate for it. The Austrian Chamber president said: “Especially in political difficult […]

According to a survey of the Gallup institute, every fourth Austrian wants to spend less money for this years christmas presents than last year. Only four percent wants to spend more than last year, 28% less, and 61% wants to spend the same amount as always.
Especially young people are not so motivated to spend a […]

Usually Mozartkugeln are manufactured in Salzburg, Vienna or Bad Reichenhall in Germany. But recently the delicious chocolate balls are also made in the Californian city of San Diego, twelve flying hours from Salzburg, and directly located on the border to Mexico.
An emigrated young lady from Salzburg, the 26-year-old Isabella Valencia, creates and sells the sweet […]

The social partners in Lower Austria are upset about the campaign of the Lower Austrian job centre.
The job centre in Lower Austria plans that 200 trained unemployed persons should work for free during christmas time. This would be a gift for the enterprises, says critics.
The boss of the Lower Austrian job centre disagrees: “We don’t […]

Will the little town of Jennersdorf in the federal state Burgenland soon be without shops? The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber names the reasons because more and more shops in this place close and stay empty.
The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber thinks the sales room of shops in Jennersdorf are just too small, and also the enterprises […]

A special night can be experienced on New Year’s Eve, in the Upper Austrian town of Aschach on the Danube river.
The pyrotechnican Christian Kalliauer wants to fire one of the most impressive music-synchronous fire works, and promise to colour the dark sky in the beat of his music.
Christian Kalliauer: “It will be an unforgettable night […]

Because there were signs that several books about Natascha Kampusch are worldwide in work, the lawyers of Natascha Kampusch are preparing precautions against such projects.
Kampusch lawyer Dr. Gerald Ganzger: “Mrs. Kampusch has told in public several times, she won’t accept it if somebody is writing a book about her. All those book projects, paparazzi and […]

The famous hotel and restaurant Stanglwirt in the Tyrolean village of Going was reported to the police by Animal rights activists, because the aquarium for the sharks is too small.
There are two specific cases which were reported to the police by the Austrian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the relaxing room […]

Dannii Minogue, the sister of Kylie Minogue, will come to Wels on the 24th November.
The Australian pop singer will be live on stage within the scope of the Energy Globe Austria Gala in the Boschhalle in Wels.
Dannii Minogue will present her song “Amazin”, and impress her fans with new dance performances.

The Austrian police has finished the 8 years lasting investigations in the case of Natascha Kampusch. More than 2.000 suspects were inspected. Now the public prosecutor has to decide if the procedure will be stopped.
The police was not able to find new discoveries, in the investigations during the last weeks. Gerhard Lang from the Federal […]

According to an interview in the Austrian newspaper called “Österreich”, health minister Maria Rauch-Kallat threatens the catering trade with radical measures if they do not create smoke-free areas.
The background of the complaint is the commitment of the catering trade, to implement areas for none smokers with more than 75 square metres in 90 percent of […]

BZÖ desires a coalition with the Peoples Party and the Greens, and so a course correction must be made to satisfy the Green party. BZÖ chief Peter Westenthaler already started today, and claimed he never wanted to send 300.000 immigrants home, althought it was written on BZÖ advertising posters for the latest national council election […]

In the Upper Austrian town of Schärding opens a brothel today, which already caused some trouble in the town.
The brothel is located in the neighbourhood of the church, which bothers the priest a lot.
Also the famous “porn hunter” Martin Humer is active again, and made a notice to several town council attendants and employees of […]

A prisoner of the jail in Krems has made a complaint that he was not allowed to buy a porn movie. The court of justice prove the prisoner right, and in future he is allowed to watch as many porn movies he wants.
Prisoners should be allowed to watch movies, reads the judgement of the court […]

Great success for the Austrian ski ladies in the Finnish area of Levi on Saturday. The first three on the pedestal were Austrians.
Especiall the superior winner Marlies Schild justified with the eight world cup victory in her seventh slalom, all the high expectations, which she received after her strong performances in the training. The girl […]

The auction of the scandal causing Viennese women’s mouth urinals in eBay is over. The four urinals were sold for 5.543 EUR.
Even three of the urinals were bought by one bidder. It was the user named Aron-Katze who made his final bid already last Tuesday. Nobody wanted to pay more. Now he has to pay […]

According to a big online opinion poll with more than 10.000 participants, the Austrian real estate portal findmyhome.at found out the latest trends in living. Result: Viennese want to live at the outskirts of their city. If possible with family.
The way of living is changing in Vienna. Not only the future wishes were analyzed, also […]

According to an interview in the newspaper “Österreich”, Haider declares his readiness to be a part of the government.
Haider: “President Fischer must give up his slavish fixing of a big coalition and search for other options. There are other options, because we are ready cooperate.”
The participation of a coalition between Socialdemocrats, the Greens, and Haider’s […]

The foreign politics spokeswoman of the Greens, Ulrike Lunacek, comments the progress report of the EU concerning the joining negotiation with Turkey.
Lunacek regrets a lame reform interest of the Turkish government. Escpecially the paragraph 301 about revilement of the Turkish nation must be canceled, she thinks. Also the situation for the women and the ethnic […]

The Southern Styrian company “Frühwirt Feinkost” starts its chemical free bacon production.
By the use of sea salt and nature spices, as well as a new developed mature process, its possible to manufacture bacon products free from nitrite, antioxidants and flavour enhancers without any loss of taste and shelf life.
The company invested more than 300.000 EUR […]