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and Hedy Lamarr. Sporting heroes include
Formula One legend Niki Lauda, and
skiing champions Franz Klammer and
Toni Sailer, who is the only person to
win gold at all three Alpine events at
the Winter Olympics.
Austria has also produced many Nobel
Prize winners. Perhaps the most famous
among them are Konrad Lorenz, a
researcher into animal and human
behaviour, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Medicine in 1973, and Erwin
Schrödinger, who won the prize for his
work on quantum theory. The work of
Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychiatrist
who became the founding father of
The annual church festival in Villach in Carinthia, a weekend of folk psychoanalysis, has heavily influenced
music and parades modern psychology, as well as other
domains of science and culture. Other
Culture and Media notable names include Gaston Glock,
Austria’s considerable influence in music founder of the firearms company;
is renowned the world over. Music aside, Ferdinand Porsche, famed car engineer;
however, the country has produced and Hans Asperger, known for his work
works and talents that have reached on mental disorders.
acclaim and importance far beyond its Tying in with its café culture, Austria
borders. Perhaps the best-known Austrian has more newspaper readers than most
is Arnold Schwarzenegger, body builder, other EU nations. The state-owned
action-movie star and former governor of Wiener Zeitung claims to be the oldest
California. Hollywood has also benefited paper in the world, while the conservative
from gifted directors Fritz Lang, Otto tabloid Neue Kronen Zeitung is the
Preminger and Billy Wilder, as well as country’s bestseller. Die Presse and Der
actors Christoph Waltz, Erich von Stroheim Standard sell some 800,000 copies a day.

View of the impressive Millenium Tower and Brigittenauer Bridge across the Danube

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