Kronen Zeitung publisher Hand Dichand is dead!

Hans Dichand, who was the publisher of Austrias daily newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, died yesterday in a Viennese hospital, reaching 89 years of life. He made his newspaper with 3 million readers daily to the biggest one in Austria.

Hans Dichand was born on the 29th January 1921 as the son of a shoemaker in Graz. After an apprenticeship in a print shop, he decided to join the German navy in 1940 during the second world war as a war volunteer.

One year later he suffered a heavy injury. After the war he received a job as an editor for the

Karl Heinz Hackl vs Heinz Christian Strache

The Austrian actor and theatre director Karl Heinz Hackl wrote a very angry open letter to Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache. The profound aversion is really noticeable in his emotional lines.

Hackl wrote that a refusal of the Freedom party is the duty of any democratic party. “Male and female, as well as young and old Austrians, are fed up with the dirty history of Austria”, he continued. The angry actor explains that Strache enjoys to exclude many institutions: “the reds, the blacks, the greens, the church, the naughty foreigners, the people from Turkey, the people from Greece, and

Albanian girl has to leave Austria, declares Constitutional Court

The Albanian girl called Arigona Zogaj, who is living in Austria since several years and became a headliner because of her vigorous resistance of leaving Austria, is confronted with another decision to leave the country.

This time the demand note comes from the Constitutional Court and seems to be quite serious. Even her closest friend, a pastor, gave her the advise to accept the decision and return home to the Kosovo.

The young girl and her family also lost a lot of support from politicans. Only the Green party decided to keep the position and continue to fight for a

Austrian women become alcohol dependent

The amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is increasing rapidly, warns the director of the Austrian Anton Proksch Institute Michael Musalek.

If this trend continues, the amount of alcohol dependent women in Austria is going to redouble. Alcohol seems to be very popular in the Alpine Republic. The country takes the top places in the international comparison.

The strongest female alcoholics are counted in the Eastern parts of Austria: the provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Burgenland. Women from Vorarlberg, Tirol and Salzburg are not so excited about beer, wine, and schnapps. Also Carinthian women have no

Fight between policemen and circus performers in Innsbruck

Tirols capital Innsbruck was the scene of a wasteful rumble between policemen and circus performers. The circus people wanted to celebrate the 26th birthday of the son of the circus director.

It turned out being a bit too loud. Police arrived on the circus ground and told the revelers to calm down. Such a claim in such an amusing atmosphere was like an insult. The circus people started to attack the policemen and made one of them unfit for duty. Two other policemen sustained dermabrasions.

Now the circus director and his son have to expect a trial. They can’t understand

32-year woman from Tirol kidnapped baby in Salzburg

Yesterday at 10:00am a 32-year-old woman from Tirol kidnapped a three months old baby in the shopping mall called “Europark” in Salzburg.

The mother of the baby got changed in a changing cubicle of a clothing shop, when the offender used the convenient time and took the baby in a Maxi Cosi infront of the changing cubicle, and escaped with the car out of the shopping mall to Tirol.

A major search operation passed unsuccessful at the beginning. The exits of the shopping mall were blocked and every person was checked. But the 32-year old was already on her way

Gambling in Austria

Austrias politicans promise a new law for the gambling market in Austria.

According to the latest press release of Peoples party politican Dr. Reinhold Lopatka, the new law should be ready very soon. The politican promised that it should stop the uncontrolled growth of illegal slot machines, and increase the protection of the gamblers.

The result should be a massive reduction of slot machines in every Austrian province. An online connection for every slot machine to the federal data processing centre should guarantee a secure monitoring if there is no violation of a law.

Every gambler has the right to