Great Austrians

[colinz]

Thinking about the question, though, I could hardly name a famous Austrian woman. A definitely masculine biased society.

What about Maria Von Trapp. Didn't someone make a movie about her, I think it was called 'The Sound of Music'

 

[Austrian Gull]

What about Maria Von Trapp. Didn't someone make a movie about her, I think it was called 'The Sound of Music'

I'm not saying that there aren't any famous Austrian women but I could name twenty famous men for every famous woman. This is a country which still awaits its first female Chancellor or President.

 

[severnside gull]

Rudolph Steiner




what is it about Austria that makes the esoteric so appealing?

 

[Jonno]

An Austrian woman who nearly became famous, thank f*** she didn't:
Barbara Rosenkranz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gwylan]

I'm not saying that there aren't any famous Austrian women but I could name twenty famous men for every famous woman. This is a country which still awaits its first female Chancellor or President.

But you could say the same about most countries: the USA has never had a female president (or vice president come to think of it). France has never had a female president (it has had a female PM but that's a less powerful position in France), Italy has not had a female president or PM, nor has Russia/USSR (and I'm sure there are many more).

I could probably name more than 20 famous British men for every famous woman (or German or French and so on). After all, 100 years ago, women in these countries didn't have the vote and men still dominate sport, business, politics, science etc. I can't see Austria as being particularly unique.

 

[manilaseagull]

My girlfriend surname is Austria.....shes hot!!

 

[brakespear]

Harti Weirahter? (sp.)

 

[Danny-Boy]

I give you the great survivor Queen Zita, last Empress of Austria. Married to an alcoholic (Karl) who became Emperor when his great-uncle I think died in 1916 (Franz Ferdinand the heir was shot in Sarajevo in 1914) she survived both wars and lived until around 1990 I think.

What stories she could have told...

 

[Dandyman]

Billy Wilder
Fred Zinnerman
Fritz Spiegl
Weegee

 

[Easy 10]

I was under the impression that his later writings were so esoteric as to be almost impossible to conclusively refute.

Yes, you're kind of right. However, his first work, the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus was even refuted by Wittgenstein himself by the time he came to writing his second and last work, the Philosphical Investigations. It's true that the latter is quite esoteric, very hard going with an almost mystical quality, highly aphoristic too and it's very difficult to actually know what he really means in many places. For a highly entertaining, if not always fully accurate, demolition job of Wittgenstein's philosophy and Linguistic Philosophy in general, read Words & Things by Ernest Gellner.

Blimey.
You don't get this on 606 do you.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Not forgetting Jochen Rindt, F1 Champions from 1970.

One of motor racing's immortals, he died at Monza.

 

[perseus]

Mozart
Beethoven
Sigmund Freud
Falco
Ashley Barnes

Any others?

There was a Cat called Vienna on an old TV programme.

 

[Jonno]

Rising Damp, the cat was Rigsby's

 

[Pavilionaire]

Not forgetting Jochen Rindt, F1 Champions from 1970.

One of motor racing's immortals, he died at Monza.

Not to mention Niki Lauda, of course...

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

Stephanie Graf- world 800m silver medalist from about 10 years ago(think she had a doping ban!).....Also Glock,the machine pistol bloke

 

[Norman Potting]

Rolf Harris, Dame Edna Everage, Angus Young, Bon Scott, Kylie, Jason Donovan.