I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
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