2024 in Austria explained

Events in the year 2024 in Austria.

Incumbents

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Karl Nehammer

Governors

• 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

• 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]
• July 21 – More than 50 people are arrested in Vienna during clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against a far-right march.^[8]
• 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 security 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]

Scheduled

• September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election^[14]
• 2024 Styrian state election
• 2024 Vorarlberg state election
• November 28 to December 15 – 2024 European Women's Handball Championship^[15]

Holidays

^[16]

• 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

• 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

January

• January 5 – Helena Adler, 40, writer and visual artist, after long illness,^[17] (b. 1983)
• January 14:
  • Elisabeth Trissenaar, 79, actress (Angry Harvest, The Stationmaster's Wife, Mario and the Magician),^[18] (b. 1944)
  • Lutz Lischka, 79, Olympic judoka (1972),^[19] (b. 1944)
• January 18 – Heinz Tesar, 84, architect,^[20] (b. 1939)

February

• February 10 – Günter Brus, 85, artist, (b. 1938)^[21]
• February 12 – Karl-Werner Rüsch, 86, civil engineer and politician, (b. 1937)^[22]

June

• June 3 – Brigitte Bierlein, 74, Chancellor of Austria (2019-2020) and President of the Constitutional Court (2018-2019), (b. 1949)^[23]

See also

• 2024 in the European Union
• 2024 in Europe

External links

• Online calendar

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024-01-01 . A fire at a bar in Austria kills 1 and severely injures 21 New Year's party revelers . 2024-01-01 . AP News . en.
2. Web site: 30 September 2023 . Venues for 2024 EuroHockey Indoor Club Championships confirmed . 6 November 2023 . EuroHockey.
3. Web site: 2024-02-24 . Three women found stabbed to death in Vienna brothel, police say . 2024-02-24 . SWI swissinfo.ch . en-GB.
4. Web site: Liechtenstein . Stephanie . 8 April 2024 . An espionage scandal rocks Austria, laying bare alleged Russian spying operations across Europe . 8 April 2024 . Associated Press . en-GB.
5. Web site: 11 April 2024 . Avalanche in Austria kills three skiers from the Netherlands . 11 April 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB.
6. Web site: IIHF announce 2024 World Championship tournaments and venues . Ice Hockey UK . 26 May 2023. 27 November 2023.
7. Web site: 10 June 2024 . Far right surges in EU vote, topping polls in Germany, France, Austria . 10 June 2024 . Al Jazeera . en-GB.
8. Web site: 21 July 2024 . Austrian police detain dozens of protesters trying to disrupt march by far-right extremists . 25 July 2024 . Associated Press . en-US.
9. Web site: 6 August 2024 . Austrian police detain dozens of protesters trying to disrupt march by far-right extremists . 6 August 2024 . France 24 . en-GB.
10. Web site: Two held in Vienna over Taylor Swift concert threat . 2024-08-07 . BBC . en-GB.
11. Web site: Organizers cancel Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over fears of an attack . 2024-08-07 . Associated Press . en-US.
12. Web site: August 13, 2024 . Austria plans tougher counter-terrorism moves after Taylor Swift plot . .
13. Web site: August 18, 2024 . Austria battles major flooding after record downpours . live.
14. Web site: Austria to hold parliamentary election on Sept.29, with far-right gaining traction . . 12 June 2024 . 12 June 2024 .
15. Web site: New organisational structure for women's EHF EURO 2024. . 16 March 2023. 6 November 2023.
16. Web site: Austria Public Holidays 2024. 6 November 2023 . Public Holidays Global.
17. Web site: Schriftstellerin Helena Adler gestorben. orf.at. 5 January 2024.
18. Web site: NDR . Schauspielerin Elisabeth Trissenaar im Alter von 79 Jahren gestorben . 2024-01-19 . www.ndr.de . de.
19. Web site: Austrian judo mourns death of Olympian Lutz Lischka . 2024-01-19 . www.judoinside.com . en.
20. News: 2024-01-19 . Architekt Heinz Tesar ist gestorben . 2024-01-19 . Die Presse . de.
21. https://kurier.at/kultur/aktionskuenstler-maler-schriftsteller-guenter-brus-gestorben/402774952 Aktionskünstler Günter Brus gestorben
22. News: 15 February 2024. Ehemaliger FPÖ-Landesrat Rüsch gestorben. German. ORF Vorarlberg . 18 February 2024.
23. News: 3 June 2024 . Brigitte Bierlein, Austria's first woman chancellor, dies at 74 . Associated Press . 3 June 2024.