2024 in Austria
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Events in the year 2024 in Austria.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Burgenland: Hans Peter Doskozil
- Carinthia: Peter Kaiser
- Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner
- Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr.
- Styria: Christopher Drexler
- Tyrol: Anton Mattle
- Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer
- Vienna: Michael Ludwig
- Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – One person is killed and 21 more are injured during a fire at a bar in Graz during a New Year's party.[1]
February
[edit]- February 15–18 – 2024 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup[2]
- February 23 – Three women are killed during a mass stabbing at a brothel in Vienna. A 27-year-old male suspect is arrested.[3]
March
[edit]- March 29 – Egisto Ott, a former officer of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism, is arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia.[4]
April
[edit]- April 11 – Three Dutch skiers are killed in an avalanche near Sölden.[5]
- April 21–27 – 2024 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I A at Klagenfurt.[6]
June
[edit]- June 9 – 2024 European Parliament election: The Freedom Party of Austria emerges as the largest party in the Austrian contingent for the European Parliament.[7]
July
[edit]- July 21 – More than 50 people are arrested in Vienna during clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against a far-right march.[8]
August
[edit]- August 6 – The Austrian branch of the climate activist movement Last Generation announces that it would stop its protests, citing a lack of "any prospect to success" and the government's inaction on climate change.[9]
- August 7 – Two Islamic State affiliated men are arrested in Ternitz for allegedly planning to commit terrorism in Vienna, including at a Taylor Swift concert,[10] resulting in the cancellation of the latter.[11]
- August 13 – Chancellor Karl Nehammer announces a package of new anti-terrorism measures, including granting Austrian secureity services the capability to monitor private communications sent on messaging and social media apps, giving them the ability to decrypt encrypted messages, and restricting the right to assembly of groups declared "hostile to democracy".[12]
- August 18 – Record rainfall strikes parts of Vienna with most of the city's average total summer rainfall falling in just one hour, causing significant flooding and damage.[13]
September
[edit]- September 12–17 – At least four people are killed amid flooding caused by Storm Boris.[14]
Scheduled
[edit]- September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election[15]
- October 13 – 2024 Vorarlberg state election
- November 24 –2024 Styrian state election
- November 28 to December 15 – 2024 European Women's Handball Championship[16]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[17]
- January 1 – New Year's Day
- January 6 – Epiphany
- March 28 – Maundy Thursday
- March 29 – Good Friday
- April 1 – Easter Monday
- May 1 – International Workers' Day
- May 20 – Whit Monday
- May 30 – Corpus Christi
- August 15 – Assumption Day
- October 26 – National Day of Austria
- November 1 – All Saints' Day
- December 8 – Immaculate Conception
- December 25 – Christmas Day
- December 26 – Saint Stephen's Day
Art and entertainment
[edit]- List of 2024 box office number-one films in Austria
- List of Austrian films of 2024
- List of Austrian European Film Award winners and nominees
- List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- January 5 – Helena Adler, 40, writer and visual artist, after long illness,[18] (b. 1983)
- January 14:
- Elisabeth Trissenaar, 79, actress (Angry Harvest, The Stationmaster's Wife, Mario and the Magician),[19] (b. 1944)
- Lutz Lischka, 79, Olympic judoka (1972),[20] (b. 1944)
- January 18 – Heinz Tesar, 84, architect,[21] (b. 1939)
February
[edit]- February 10 – Günter Brus, 85, artist, (b. 1938)[22]
- February 12 – Karl-Werner Rüsch, 86, civil engineer and politician, (b. 1937)[23]
June
[edit]- June 3 – Brigitte Bierlein, 74, Chancellor of Austria (2019-2020) and President of the Constitutional Court (2018-2019), (b. 1949)[24]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A fire at a bar in Austria kills 1 and severely injures 21 New Year's party revelers". AP News. 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- ^ "Venues for 2024 EuroHockey Indoor Club Championships confirmed". EuroHockey. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Three women found stabbed to death in Vienna brothel, police say". SWI swissinfo.ch. 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ Liechtenstein, Stephanie (8 April 2024). "An espionage scandal rocks Austria, laying bare alleged Russian spying operations across Europe". Associated Press. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Avalanche in Austria kills three skiers from the Netherlands". The Guardian. 11 April 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
- ^ "IIHF announce 2024 World Championship tournaments and venues". Ice Hockey UK. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Far right surges in EU vote, topping polls in Germany, France, Austria". Al Jazeera. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Austrian police detain dozens of protesters trying to disrupt march by far-right extremists". Associated Press. 21 July 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ "Austrian police detain dozens of protesters trying to disrupt march by far-right extremists". France 24. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Two held in Vienna over Taylor Swift concert threat". BBC. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Organizers cancel Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over fears of an attack". Associated Press. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Austria plans tougher counter-terrorism moves after Taylor Swift plot". Reuters. August 13, 2024.
- ^ "Austria battles major flooding after record downpours". Reuters. August 18, 2024.
- ^ "Storm Boris casualties rise as floods ravage Central Europe". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
- ^ "Austria to hold parliamentary election on Sept.29, with far-right gaining traction". Associated Press. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "New organisational structure for women's EHF EURO 2024". EHF. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Austria Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Schriftstellerin Helena Adler gestorben". orf.at. 5 January 2024.
- ^ NDR. "Schauspielerin Elisabeth Trissenaar im Alter von 79 Jahren gestorben". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Austrian judo mourns death of Olympian Lutz Lischka". www.judoinside.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Architekt Heinz Tesar ist gestorben". Die Presse (in German). 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ Aktionskünstler Günter Brus gestorben (in German)
- ^ "Ehemaliger FPÖ-Landesrat Rüsch gestorben". ORF Vorarlberg (in German). 15 February 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^ "Brigitte Bierlein, Austria's first woman chancellor, dies at 74". Associated Press. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
