Austria in short supply

Austria trails 3:7 in Vienna’s culture match

The Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna - an "American" and a "German" museum(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Clemens Groh)

Part 4 of our theme week looks into the executive floors of Vienna's cultural temples: Austrians are a minority in the major theaters and museums. The Ministry of Culture sees nothing wrong with this. And at least for some new bosses, the nationality in their passports is only half the truth.

The controversial German Kay Voges will only be director of the Volkstheater until the fall - and will then hand over to the German Jan Philipp Gloger. This means that Austria will still only have a 3:7 lead in Vienna's most important cultural institutions (see chart below): Only the State Opera, the Belvedere and the Wien Museum have a red-white-red signature from the management downwards, the rest of the houses around the Ringstrasse and beyond are distributed among bosses from all over the world.