My name is Mizgin Sönmez and I am 18 years old. My parents came to Austria twenty years ago, which is why I was born in St. Pölten. I currently live in Loosdorf. My parents were born in Turkey but we are curds. We have officially been Austrian…
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja‘s versatility shows itself in her diverse repertoire, ranging from baroque and classical often played on gut strings, to new commissions and re-interpretations of modern masterworks. Last season’s highlights included her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker performing Peter Eötvös’DoReMi under the baton of the…
Martin Posset was born in 1980 in Vienna. Since 2008, he is a partner at h2 projekt.beratung KG in Vienna. 2009 he became an entrepreneur in the areas of chains and processes. He has been an external lector at the BOKU University Vienna since 2012,…
Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, with a courtesy appointment in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Lindtner’s research and teaching interests include transnational networks of innovation and entrepreneurship culture, DIY (do it yourself) making…
Philipp Blom, born in Hamburg in 1970, studied philsophy, history and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford. He lives in Vienna, working as a writer and historian and regularly writing for European and American magazines and newspapers. He has received numerous awards, among others a…
Jonathan Mayer was born in the town of Krems in 1991 and currently lives in Vienna. After finishing school, he went to Ghana to complete his mandatory civil service abroad, working as an IT teacher. Upon his return he studied “Environmental and Bio Resource Management” at…
Songs of the Water / Tales of the Sea It was a long and perilous journey. They have braved a passage which thousands so far, who were also on the run and in search of safety, had to pay for with their life. Initiated by…
