- Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works "Astronomia nova", "Harmonices Mundi", and "Epitome of Copernican Astronomy". - Karl Marx
Karl Marx (November 12 1897, Munich - May 8 1985, Stuttgart) was a German composer, conductor, and educator. Karl Marx first studied natural sciences, but, after having met Carl Orff, decided to make music his career, and studied musical composition with Orff, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Anton Beer-Waldbrunn among others. In 1928 he became choir director of the Munich Bach Society, and in 1929 was appointed professor for compositional technique at the Akademie der Tonkunst, … - Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer (born 9 October 1938) is the federal president of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004. Born in Graz, Styria, Fischer received a humanistic education, taking his "Matura" exams in 1956. He then studied law at the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1961. Apart from being a politician, Fischer also pursued an academic career, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck in 1993. - Franz Voves
Franz Voves (born February, 28th 1953 in Graz, Styria) is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ and a former player in the Austrian ice hockey national team. Since October 25th 2005, he has been Governor of Styria (Landeshauptmann der Steiermark). He was vice-governor of Styria from March 12th 2002 to October 24th 2005. March, 2nd 2002 he was elected as the chairman of the SPÖ Styria (Steiermark) - Helmut List
Helmut List is an engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. He holds the academic title of Professor Doctor. He is CEO of AVL, (Anstalt für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen List, "Institute for Combustion Engines List") which was founded by his father, the engineer and inventor Hans List, in 1948. AVL operates globally and is based in Graz, capital of Austria's province Styria. - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (born Johann Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt December 6, 1929 in Berlin) is an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances of music from the classical era and earlier. <br> <small>Harnoncourt at the New Year's Concert <br>in Vienna (Musikverein, January 1, 2003)</small> - Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger (31 July 1843 - 26 June 1918) was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a farmer's boy and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary. In his later years, he was honoured by officials from various Austrian universities and the city of Graz (the capital of Styria). - Emanuel Pogatetz
Emanuel Pogatetz (born January 16, 1983 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian football player who currently plays for Middlesbrough as a defender. - Mario Haas
Mario Haas (born 16 September, 1974 in Graz) is an Austrian football forward. Mario Haas played for SK Sturm Graz and had 40 caps with the Austrian national football team. He joined JEF United Ichihara Chiba of Japan's JLeague in 2005 and enjoyed a reasonably successful first season, helping them lift the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup (the Japanese League Cup), the club's first ever trophy. - Wolfgang Bauer
Wolfgang Bauer was an Austrian writer best known as a playwright who, particularly in his younger days, was regarded as an "enfant terrible" by the Austrian cultural establishment. Bauer was born in Graz, Styria. His breakthrough play was "Magic Afternoon" in 1967, … - Johann Gottlieb
Johann Gottlieb (February 15, 1815 in Brünn, Austria (now Brno, Czech Republic- March 4, 1875 in Graz, Austria) was a Austrian chemist who first synthesized Propionic acid. From 1846 he was Professor at the University of Graz. - Hans List
Hans List (born April 30 1896 in Graz, capital of Austria's federal province Styria; died September 10 1996 in Graz) was a technical scientist and inventor and entepreneur. After earning a degree of doctor in engineering at the Technical University in Graz, Hans List was appointed to the Tongji University in China (1926-32), followed by teaching positions back home in Graz (1932-41) and Dresden, Germany (until 1945). - Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" (New Ways) in 1952. He was a good friend of Friederike Mayröcker. In 1973 he co-founded the "Grazer Autorenversammlung" in Graz, became its vice president in 1975 and was its president from 1983 to 1987. In his poems, he plays with the German language, in many different ways, … - Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the "Mach number" (also known as Mach speed) and the optical illusion known as Mach bands. - Johann Lafer
Johann Lafer (born September 27, 1957 in Graz, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian chef living in Germany. Johann Lafer became well-known through his televised cooking show and his numerous cookbooks. His television show is self-produced. He is a regular guest of the television host Johannes B. Kerner on whose show he regularly prepares meals before an audience. He lives with his wife Silvia and two children in Stromberg, where he runs a restaurant and hotel. - Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (born December 7, 1801 at Vienna, Austria; died May 25, 1862 at Graz, Austria) was an opera singer, actor and, primarily, a playwright. After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting. This combination of careers has caused Nestroy to be called the "Austrian Shakespeare". - Olga Neuwirth
Olga Neuwirth (born August 4, 1968 in Graz) is an Austrian composer. As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on trumpet. She later studied composition in Vienna at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Erich Urbanner, while studying at the Electroacoustic Institute. Her thesis was written on the music in Alain Resnais' movie "L'amour a mort." From 1985-86, … - Inge Morath
Ingeborg Morath (May 27, 1923 in Graz, Austria - January 30, 2002 in New York City) was an Austrian-born photographer. Morath was sent to forced labour at the Berlin Tempelhof airport for refusing to join the Hitler Youth, but escaped. During and after the war she worked first in Berlin and then Vienna as a photographic assistant. In 1949 she made her way to Paris and later to London, where she studied photography, and later joined the legendary Magnum Photos agency. - Alf Poier
Alf Poier is an Austrian artist and stand-up comedian. Born in Judenburg in Styria, he started doing cabaret in 1995 in Graz, and has won several prizes for his work, including the Salzburger Stier in 1998, the Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, Prix Phanteon and RTL Comedy Award in 2000 and the Austrian Karl in 2002. In 2003, Poier participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 and secured 6th place with his entry "Weil Der Mensch Zählt" ("Because humans count"). - Günther Domenig
Günther Domenig is an Austrian architect. Domenig studied architecture at the Technische Universität, Graz (1953-1959), and after working as an architectural assistant, set up in practice with Eilfried Huth (1963-1973), producing highly regarded buildings in a brutalist vein. Domening's first internationally acclaimed completed work was the Z-bank in Vienna, which signalled a much more expressionistic, counter-modernist aesthetic. - Markus Schopp
Markus Schopp (born February 22, 1974 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays on loan for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer (USA), from its sister football club Red Bull Salzburg. Schopp has played for Sturm Graz and Red Bull Salzburg (Austria), as well as Hamburger SV (Germany) and Brescia Calcio (Italy). He played for Austria national football team (56 caps), … - Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia. He is renowned as one of the most distinguished classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century. - Fabio Luisi
Fabio Luisi (born Genoa 1959) is an Italian conductor. He studied conducting in Graz, and held several positions in opera-houses throughout Germany and Austria. He is currently (as of 2006) principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Chief Conductor Designate of the Staatskapelle Dresden. - Karl Emil Franzos
Karl Emil Franzos was a German (Austrian) novelist. Franzos was born of Sephardic father and Odessan mother of Jewish parentage in Ukraine Podolia, and spent his early years in the shtetl of Czortków in Galicia. His father, a district physician, died early, and the boy, after attending the gymnasium of Czernowitz, Bukovina, was obliged to teach in order to support himself and prepare for academic study. He studied law at the universities of Vienna and Graz, … - Franz Fuchs
Franz Fuchs (December 12 1949 in Gralla, Styria - February 26 2000 in Graz) was a xenophobic Austrian terrorist. Between 1993 and 1997 he killed four people and injured 15, some of them seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and five waves of 25 mailbombs in total. - Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. Heinrich Harrer was born in Hüttenberg, Carinthia to a postal worker. From 1933 to 1938 Harrer studied geography and sports at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. Harrer became a member of the traditional student corporation ATV Graz. He was designated to participate in the combined Alpine skiing competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. - Roland Rainer
Roland Rainer (May 1, 1910 - April 10, 2004) was an Austrian architect. Born in Klagenfurt, Roland Rainer decided to become an architect when he was 18, so he studied at the Vienna University of Technology. His thesis was about the Karlsplatz in Vienna. Then, he left Austria visiting the Netherlands and the German Academy for Urban Design in Berlin. After World War II, he returned to Austria. - Armin Assinger
Armin Assinger (born June 7 1964) is a former Austrian Alpine skier and current host of the Millionenshow. A native of Graz, he won a total of 4 World Cup races. - Karin Gastinger
Karin Gastinger is an Austrian politician. She was Federal Minister of Justice in the coalition government led by Wolfgang Schüssel which served from June 2004 to January 2007. She was born Karin Miklautsch in Graz, Styria, and, after graduating from law school, became a lawyer with the Carinthian government, where she was appointed head of the Department of Water Law in 1999. In the autumn of 2004, still unknown to most Austrians, … - August Sander
August Sander (November 17, 1876 - April 20, 1964) was a German photographer. Sander was the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry. While working at a local mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who was working for the mining company. With financial support from his uncle he acquired photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom. He spent his military service (1897 - 1899) as a photographer's assistant, … - Clemens Krauss
Clemens Heinrich Krauss [Krauß] (March 31, 1893 - May 16, 1954) was a leading Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss. He was born in Vienna, out of wedlock, and was given his mother's maiden surname. His mother was Clementine Krauss, a leading Viennese actress and singer. He was also related to Gabrielle Krauss (1842-1904), an important nineteenth-century soprano. His father was a figure in the Austrian Imperial Court. - Joseph Marx
Joseph Marx (May 11 1882, Graz - September 3 1964, Graz) was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. In an interview given to Elyse Mach ("Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves"; Dover Books on Music), Jorge Bolet said that the "Romantic Piano Concerto" by Joseph Marx was his favorite among the great virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist. - Andrea Maria Dusl
Andrea Maria Dusl is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator. Between 1981 and 1985 the daughter of Austrian architect Erwin H. Dusl and Swedish captain's family Pettersson's descendant Monica Jüllig studied stage design at Vienna's Akademie der Bildenden Künste and promoted as Master of Arts. She worked as assistant stage designer at Vienna's Burgtheater, Akademietheater (under the direction of George Tabori), Theater an der Wien, … - Barry Smith
Barry Smith is Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA) and Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Saarbrücken, Germany. He studied at Oxford University and at Manchester University, and has held faculty positions in Sheffield, Manchester, Liechtenstein, Leipzig and Saarbrücken, as well as visiting positions in Erlangen, Graz, Paris, Turku, Innsbruck, Padua, Hamburg, Konstanz, … - Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975, Vienna) is artist, writer, curator, director. He attended many international symposia and published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, science and philosophy. He writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, FM4, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Johannes Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). - Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs (February 15, 1847 - February 19, 1927) was an Austrian composer. Fuchs studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Otto Dessoff and Joseph Hellmesberger among others. He eventually secured a teaching position there and was subsequently appointed Professor of music theory. He was born in Frauental near Graz, the capital of Styria, and died in Vienna at the age of eighty. He was the brother of Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, who was also a composer and conductor, … - Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer "née" Frauendorfer (April 11, 1920 - March 21, 1970) was an Austrian author, most famous for her only novel translated into English, "The Wall". Haushofer was born in Frauenstein in Upper Austria. She attended Catholic boarding school in Linz, and went on to study German literature in Vienna, as well as Graz. After her years in school, she settled in Steyr. In 1941, she married Manfred Haushofer, a dentist, and had two sons, … - Hugo Schuchardt
Hugo Ernst Mario Schuchardt (4 February 1842, Gotha (Thüringen) – 21 april 1927, Graz (Styria) was an eminent linguist, best-known for his work in the Romance languages, the Basque language, and in mixed languages, including pidgins, creoles, and the Lingua franca of the Mediterranean. - Hans Graf
Known for his intensely musical interpretations of a wide ranging repertoire and creative programming, Hans Graf is the 15th music director of the Houston Symphony, a post he assumed on Opening Night of the 2001-2002 season. Recently, Graf completed tenures as music director of the Calgary Philharmonic and the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. - Robert Hamerling
Robert Hamerling (March 24, 1830 - July 13, 1889), Austrian poet, was born at Kirchberg-am-Walde in Lower Austria, of humble parentage. He early displayed a genius for poetry and his youthful attempts at drama excited the interest and admiration of some influential persons. Owing to their assistance young Hamerling was enabled to attend the gymnasium in Vienna and subsequently the university.
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