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Opinion Piece

Dec 6, 2025

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8 min read

The Secret Life of a Hostess

A dinner party is never just dinner. In Vienna, the table has always been where ideas sharpen, wine softens, and culture happens between courses.

Eleonore Marie Stifter

Opinion Piece

Of Cakes, Choices and the Calm of the Familiar

Nov 21, 2025

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5 min read

Of Cakes, Choices and the Calm of the Familiar

Why Vienna has always been drowning in choice, indulging in excess, and still somehow ends up ordering the same six things.

Eleonore Marie Stifter

Culture

From Vienna’s State Opera to Berghain: Seventy Years Old and Suddenly Sexy Again

Nov 7, 2025

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7 min read

From Vienna’s State Opera to Berghain: Seventy Years Old and Suddenly Sexy Again

How the comeback of Opera is giving roaring 20’s.

Eleonore Marie Stifter

Opinion Piece

Welcome to Vienna, Please Mind the Afterlife: The City That Plans Funerals Better Than Parties

Oct 31, 2025

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7 min read

Welcome to Vienna, Please Mind the Afterlife: The City That Plans Funerals Better Than Parties

Where the afterlife has better PR than the living.

Eleonore Marie Stifter

Opinion Piece

Oct 10, 2025

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5 min read

Are we not Grantig enough anymore?

On reclaiming the Wiener Grant before it’s too late.