Metropole - October 2017

OCTOBER 2017 issue no. 21 PRICE €4. The Good LIFE insight. opinion. events. city life. schmäh. ...

At home in Vienna. Even if you live somewhere else Danube Canal http://www.vienna.info ©Vienna Tourist Board/P.Rigaud ...

EDITOR’S LETTER Ads & Subscriptions Communications: Catherine M. Hooker, Nicolas Kristen, Alexandra Peng Subscriptions: metr ...

CONTENTS COVER STORY 18 THE GOOD LIFE In a city that cares for you, the living is easy. But finding the good life, whether it en ...

CONTENTS 52 ON DISPLAY The Weltmuseum Wien reopens its doors, offering a revised approach to ethnology and different cultures. B ...

Many thanks for your thoughts, ideas and insights! If you have something to say about Vienna or a story you read here, tell us a ...

Sprache in der zeitgenössischen Kunst / Language in Contemporary Art Das Galerienfestival mit internationalen Kuratorinnen und K ...

EDITORIAL Beisl’s Lament The closing of the beloved Café Industrie on the Margaretengürtel in May made headlines in Vienna. A fa ...

Germany’s Hour For the European Union to work, its strong members must show solidarity with its weak members. Germany need to su ...

OP-ED Uber’s Failing Fantasy The sharing economy promises cheap and easy fixes in a time of limited resources. But if you peek b ...

The Battle for the Internet From elections to dating, the internet is increasingly shaping our lives. In the effort to control c ...

Expats Prize Austria’s Quality of Life, Denounce Unfriendliness An Expat Insider study by InterNations ranked Austria as one of ...

VIENNA FUNERAL SERVICE LOSES CORPSE Christoph Waltz famously said that the Viennese spend their entire life preparing for their ...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DOCTORS AND HEALTHCARE IN VIENNA CO MI NG^ T HIS NOVEM BE R Everything you wanted to know about doctors, i ...

MELANGE People notice when she walks into a room. Something in the combination of her warm demeanor, calm en- thusiasm and infec ...

QUOTES, STATS & NUMBERS SOURCE: ÖSTERREICHISCHE LOTTERIEN - MARKET INSTITUT: UMFRAGE ZUM GLÜCKSEMPFINDEN DER ÖSTERREICHER, 2 ...

QUOTES, STATS & NUMBERS SOURCE: KARLSPLATZ PASSAGE / PI ART PROJECT - SORA INSTITUTE, AS OF SEPTEMBER 13, 13: ILLUSTRATIONS: ...

COVER STORY COVER STORY The Good Life Vienna regularly tops the rankings of the world’s most livable cities. But as much as anyt ...

The Good Life or the mild mannered “Zettelpoet” ( n o t e poet) Helmut Seethaler, The Good Life means pasting tiny poems on Vien ...

COVER STORY in horror at the lives of doped-up artists, when not collecting their work for peanuts and pocket change. My “right” ...