The important Austrians according to ATVPlus
The ATVPlus did a rerun of the “10 Most Important Austrians.” In case you don’t know the “Hi Society” host Dominic Heinzl presents “The ATV Ranking Show“.
If you don’t watch TV, or better yet, you don’t tune in to this kind of fluffy program, in which I cannot blame you, watching it has become a motivation for me to improve my German. Anyway, one cannot declare that this is the ultimate list. It is just a matter of the ATV audience’s opinion.
People can be so mundane and at times contemplating. Just take the list with a grain of salt.
In order of importance. No. 1 being No. 1.
1. Wolfgang A. Mozart–composer, Austria’s official mascot. But hey, he was a prodigy and you like it or not, his music is really catchy (though I still prefer Schubert and Beethoven over him). This year is truly his.
2. Frank Stronach–businessman and the owner of the company Magna and others
3. Dietrich Mateschitz–Honestly, Red Bull disgusts me, especially in the morning (like the smell of Kebab or Leberkäse Semmel in a crowded wagon). But I am amazed with the popularity of this sugary drink. Mr. Mateschitz, the owner, is a marketing genius. Just look at the commercials.
4. Elfriede Jelinek–writer, the only woman on the list. I wonder if she wouldn’t have gotten the Nobel Prize in Literature, would the public dismiss her works?
5. Arnold Schwarzenegger–actor, politician, one ex-colleague asked me then if the significant other resembles Arnold. She thinks every Austrian is. I have to admit that my mother really likes him.
6. Carl Djerassi–inventor of contraceptive pills. Hail, hail to this man! During the Nazi era, he fled to the US of A in order to escape persecution.
7. Niki Lauda–F1 driver and champion.
8. Hans Dichand–media mogul, the owner of the popular tabloid Kronen Zeitung. They said he rules, unconsciously, Austria. He is a media practitioner and he forces (his paper’s) opinions on the people.
9. Helmut Pechlaner–the director of the Schönbrunn Tiergarten. My SO thinks he is sympathisch.
10. Gery Keszler–the promoter of AIDS Live Ball. I only got to hear that his charity parties are sort of the creme de la creme of celebs and fashion icons.
These are the people who didn’t make it on the list: Billy Wilder, Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, etc.
hell yeah thats crap! atv is crap! they also forgot jo zawinul, and bruce lee
somehow there are only nice people on the list.
ever heard of a person called a. hitler?
sorry to say that, but i think he has changed worldhistory more than any other person.
the governator is nice? dichand is nice? yeah, sure, if you compare them to hitler. oh, and the second fattest girl in my class is skinny.
Right! Who gives a fuck about Wittgenstein when you can list Dichand?
i guess what the ATV and its audience wanted to convey is that “only” Austrians who gave the “positive” look of Austria in the minds of its citizens.
Adolf Hitler is too evil. I am pretty sure most of the Austrians want to forget him and his contribution to history. or am I wrong????
though it is hard to believe that his memory and his philosophy are very much alive. ironic, is it?
sorry sam, but the chinese/hong kongers “own” bruce lee.
sorry for taking this seriously. i need a new job.
Schwarzenegger is more “important” than Freud, Kraus, Musil, Strauss, Haydn, Schubert, Klimt, Schiele, Sisi ecc….
interesting…
Umberto, let me rephrase that: ATV+ is less important than half a cup of stale horseshit.
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