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Vienna (Wien) : Austria

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Vienna has become a popular host of many different sporting events including the Vienna City Marathon, which attracts more than 10,000 participants every year and normally takes place in May. In 2005 the Ice Hockey World Championships will take place in Austria, with the final being played in Vienna. After already being the stage of four Champions League (originally European Champion Clubs’ Cup) finals (1964, 1987, 1990, 1995) the final of Euro 2008, the European Football Championships, will take place in Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium.

Austria’s capital is also the home of numerous sports teams. The best known of them are the local football clubs FK Austria Wien (22 time Austrian national champions) and SK Rapid Wien (30 time Austrian national champions), though the oldest is First Vienna FC. Other important clubs are the Chrysler Vikings Vienna (American Football), who won the Eurobowl title as Europe’s best American Football team in 2004, the Vienna Hot Volleys, one of Europe’s premier Volleyball-organisations, and the Vienna Capitals (Ice Hockey).

Native Viennese
Alfred Adler, founder of individual psychology
Ilse Aichinger, writer
Wolfgang Ambros, one of the founders of Austropop
Andr Asriel, composer
Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
Alban Berg, composer
Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist
Arik Brauer, painter, singer, and poet
Martin Buber, philosopher
Georg Danzer, song writer
Elfi von Dassanowsky, singer, pianist, film producer
Heimito von Doderer, writer
Peter Drucker, economist
Albert Ehrenstein, writer
Falco, singer and musician
Viktor Frankl, psychologist, neurologist, founder of Logo Therapy
Karl von Frisch, zoologist, animal psychologist, bee keeper, Nobel Prize Winner
Franz Grillparzer, playwright
Friedrich Hayek, economist, Nobel Prize Winner
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer, founder of the Salzburger Festspiele
Robert Horn, luxury leather accessory designer and style guru
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, architect, painter
Ernst Jandl, poet and writer
Franz Knig, Cardinal Archbishop
Gustav Klimt, painter
Karl Kraus, satirist, publisher of “Die Fackel”
Wolfgang Kraus, essayist, leader for many years of the sterreichische Gesellschaft fr Literatur
Karl Landsteiner, doctor, bacteriaologist, discoverer of blood group, Nobel Prize Winner
Fritz Lang, director
Joseph Lanner, composer
Niki Lauda, race car driver and entrepreneur
B.M. Leser-Lasario, singer
Leopold Lindtberg, director
Konrad Lorenz, behavioural scientist, Nobel Prize Winner
Friederike Mayrcker, writer
Lise Meitner, physicist
Johann Nestroy, playwright
Karl Popper, philosopher
Helmut Qualtinger, actor, writer, cabaret actor
Ferdinand Raimund, play writer
Alma Ros, violin virtuoso, killed in Auschwitz
Arthur Schnitzler, story teller and playwright
Arnold Schnberg, composer, music theorist, painter
Erwin Schrdinger, physicist, Nobel Prize WInner
Franz Schubert, composer
Erwin Steinhauer, actor
Johann Strauss I, composer
Johann Strauss II, composer
Johann Georg Stuwer, fireworks foreman
Friedrich Torberg, writer and journalist
Otto Wagner, architect
Anton von Webern, composer
Otto Weininger, philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
Joe Zawinul, jazz pianist, keyboard player, and composer
Stefan Zweig, writer

Culinary specialities

Among others, the Sachertorte, or Sacher cake, a chocolate cake form the Sacher Hotel is well known here.

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