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 1 – A person is killed and 21 more are injured during a fire at a bar in Graz, during a New Year's party.[1]
- 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 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 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 9 – 2024 European Parliament election: The Freedom Party of Austria emerges as the largest party in the Austrian contingent for the European Parliament.[7]
- June 11 – Austria sets the date for parliamentary elections to be held on 29 September.[8]
Scheduled[edit]
- September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election[9]
- 2024 Styrian state election
- 2024 Vorarlberg state election
- November 28 to December 15 – 2024 European Women's Handball Championship[10]
Holidays[edit]
Source:[11]
- 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,[12] (b. 1983)
- January 14:
- Elisabeth Trissenaar, 79, actress (Angry Harvest, The Stationmaster's Wife, Mario and the Magician),[13] (b. 1944)
- Lutz Lischka, 79, Olympic judoka (1972),[14] (b. 1944)
- January 18 – Heinz Tesar, 84, architect,[15] (b. 1939)
February[edit]
- February 10 – Günter Brus, 85, artist, (b. 1938)[16]
- February 12 – Karl-Werner Rüsch, 86, civil engineer and politician, (b. 1937)[17]
June[edit]
- June 3 – Brigitte Bierlein, 74, Chancellor of Austria (2019-2020) and President of the Constitutional Court (2018-2019), (b. 1949)[18]
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.
- ^ "Austria to hold election on Sept. 29, with far-right in ascendant". Reuters. June 11, 2024.
- ^ "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.
