Culture Shock! Austria - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

142 CultureShock! Austria Perchtoldsdorf, south of Vienna, or Stammersdorf, north of the city in the 21st district. Outside of V ...

Austrian Cuisine: Mahlzeit 143 on Saturdays from 7:00 am till 7:30 pm, and on Sundays from 8:00 am until 7:30 pm. The Billa at t ...

144 CultureShock! Austria In addition to the usual fruit, vegetables, fresh meat and seafood, the Naschmarkt is the place to go ...

Austrian Cuisine: Mahlzeit 145 breakfast. Most Austrians feast on an Easter dinner of ham, Schinken im Brotteig (ham baked in do ...

146 CultureShock! Austria in the 4th century, he was a humble man who became a monk. According to legend, when he found out that ...

Austrian Cuisine: Mahlzeit 147 dipped marshmallow confections), red candy apples and cotton candy. Blattlstock, from Tyrol, is a ...

‘To each Age its Art, to Art its Freedom.’ —Motto of the Secessionists Enjoying the Culture CULTURE CHAPTER 7 ...

Enjoying the Culture 149 A FRIEND OF JULIE’S was coming to live in Vienna. A key item on his ‘to do list’ was to learn to play t ...

150 CultureShock! Austria which often involved the whole court, gave rise to popular religious drama. During the Baroque period, ...

Enjoying the Culture 151 a part in forming the era. The monarchy held absolute power, Catholicism reigned supreme after the defe ...

152 CultureShock! Austria the renovations. Of course, the best-known Gothic building is Stephansdom, Vienna’s magnificent cathed ...

Enjoying the Culture 153 style is the imperial summer residence, Schönbrunn Palace, commissioned by Maria Theresa. Paintings fro ...

154 CultureShock! Austria sonatas, songs and 377 arrangements of Scottish and Welsh airs. The Great Composers Haydn knew both Mo ...

Enjoying the Culture 155 hardship. Acclaimed a child prodigy at six, by 11, he had written three symphonies; but by his early 30 ...

156 CultureShock! Austria Biedermeier Era (1780–1848) The large, ostentatious buildings of the Baroque period gave way to the si ...

Enjoying the Culture 157 and melodic, and his 600 Lieder were in the spirit of early Romantic poetry. For one who died so young, ...

158 CultureShock! Austria His best-known dramatic devices were language twists, name invention and Viennese dialect. Ferdinand R ...

Enjoying the Culture 159 House) was the first building to go up, designed by August von Siccardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll in ...

160 CultureShock! Austria Anton Bruckner (1824–96) Bruckner had served as an organist at the cathedral in Linz, and came to Vien ...

Enjoying the Culture 161 Secession Secession, or Secessionstil, and Secessionism are often erroneously associated with Jugendsti ...