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«Österreichisch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft Boston»
Founded in Boston in 1944 and incorporated in 1970, the non-profit Austro-American
Association was established to further the interest in Austria and Austrian culture and promote Austrian-American
friendship. Austrian and American members participate in a wide variety of social and cultural
programs.
In recent years, events such as lectures, concerts, holiday celebrations,
boat cruises, Stammtische1 and Heurige were frequently accompanied by fine Austrian cuisine.
A Scholarship Fund provides grants to scholars and artists in support of projects related to
Austrian culture.
(more history)
1Table reserved for regulars; A monthly A-AA gathering with German conversation
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News & Announcements
Monday, June 15, 2009
Direct links to Austrian Public Radio (ORF) Stations
| | The following links will open the streams directly in the media player. | |
Thursday, November 13, 2008
New product categories available at the A-AA Store (powered by Amazon.com)
| | You can now shop for electronics, jewelry and watches, sports and outdoor gear, apparel, and even home and garden products on our site. You pay the same price as with major online retailers, while a small portion of the proceeds will go to the Austro-American Association. [go to the store] | |
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film
| | The Austrian Holocaust-era drama "The Counterfeiters" won the Oscar for best foreign language film. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, it was the first win for Austria in the category. Click here to access the film's English website. | |
Thursday, January 17, 2008
"That Woman"
| | The question seemed innocuous enough. "How," a woman asked Hillary Clinton at an event in Portsmouth, N.H., designed to woo undecided voters, "did you get out the door every day? I mean, as a woman, I know how hard it is to get out of the house and get ready. Who does your hair?" Clinton chuckled, made a few jokes about how she "has help" on certain days (but those are never the pictures you see on Web sites, she joked). Then she paused. Her eyes grew red. The coffee shop, packed with about 100 members of the media and 16 outnumbered voters, grew silent.
The above is a paragraph from a Newsweek report about a moment that may turn out to be crucial for the upcoming elections. The ensueing media coverage helped Hillary Clinton regain footing and win the New Hampshire primaries earlier this month.
What Newsweek did not know: the woman who asked the question is Austrian-born Marianne Pernold Young (64). She grew up in Vienna and lived on Gumpendorfer Strasse until she immigrated to the United States at age 9. Read an interview with Ms. Young here. | |
Friday, November 02, 2007
Austrian Online Newspaper Archive
| | The Austrian National Library now offers 3.5 million historic newspaper-pages online - for free. ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online covers the period from 1716 until 1936. You can either browse the titles of the newspapers or choose a specific date. Among the digitized newspapers there are for example "Wiener Zeitung", "Pester Lloyd", "Prager Tagblatt", "Reichspost". At the moment there are over 3.5 million pages of 70 different newspapers and journals available online and the number is still growing. Already 600 users per day visit the digital newspaper reading room. | |
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) on the Web
| | All ORF radio programs and some TV shows are now available for online listening or viewing. Visit http://radio.orf.at/ and listen to all of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's (ORF) radio programs online. In addition, the web site offers select TV programs for on-demand viewing, such as the ZIB and ZIB 2 shows, and a number of regional news casts. Microsoft's Windows Media Player is the only required software for both audio and video broadcasts, and chances are that it is already present on your Windows personal computer.
A technical note: After the selection of a TV program for viewing, a popup-windows appears with the Windows Media Player controls and it looks like the stream is starting - but it won't. It is necessary to select a day and then a topic from the list to the right of the player. | |
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Shop at the A-AA Online Store
| | Powered by Amazon, the A-AA Online Store is now available and is your one-stop destination for everything Austrian. We will maintain our product catalog on an ongoing basis. Please let us know if you would like to see any additional Austrian products that Amazon offers but that are not in the A-AA catalog. Online Store. | |
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Vienna Waits For You
| | The Vienna Tourist Board created this 6-minute commercial about Vienna waiting for you. It features Billy Joel's song with the same title. The film clip won the the World Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival in January 2004, a "Mention to the Grand Prix of Tourism Films 2003" and the Prix Victoria in Gold at the 21. International Commercial Film Days in Linz/Austria. The film is part of a world-wide campaign to boost tourism in Vienna. In London, 10 red taxis will display the logo and the web site URL of the Vienna Tourist Board (info.wien.at) for a year (see picture). 340 buses in Italy advertise flights to Vienna for €77.- round trip. Read about Billy Joel's family ties to Vienna in this 2003 article in The Villager
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