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Herbert von Karajan
Born in Salzburg in 1908. Died in Anif, just south of the city, in 1989. Between those two facts, Herbert von Karajan became one of the most powerful and most recorded figures in the history of classical music.
THE LOCALS
People who shaped Salzburg
Artists, composers, guides, hoteliers, chefs, makers, and founders with a real connection to the city.
204Salzburg lives and work
The origins map
Where Salzburg's people came from
A magnet more than a cradle: most of these figures were born elsewhere and came to Salzburg. Every pin is a birthplace.
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Hermann Bahr
Hermann Bahr was the writer who championed everything new before it was safe to do so. Critic, playwright, essayist, and the intellectual glue of the Young Vienna circle, he spent the last decades of his life in…
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Hermann Helmer
The engineering half of the Fellner & Helmer partnership. While Ferdinand Fellner handled the ceremonial and decorative architecture, Hermann Helmer brought structural engineering rigour to the auditoria, handling…
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Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier is the most decorated alpine ski racer Salzburg State has ever produced. Born and raised in Flachau in the Pongau, "The Herminator" won four World Cup overall titles, set an all-time points record,…
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal co-founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920 and wrote Jedermann, the morality play performed on Domplatz every summer since that first night in August 1920, making him the poet most visibly woven…
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Hyunok Jang
Hyunok Jang is a Korean-born guide based in Salzburg and the only Korean-speaking guide in the Free Walking Tour Salzburg team. She co-founded Introducing Salzburg alongside Gerhard Reus, bringing a cross-cultural…
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann attended school in Salzburg and later had her poetry read at the Salzburg Festival, the city's highest cultural stage. She is one of the two or three most important Austrian poets of the 20th century,…
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James Turrell
James Turrell works exclusively with light and perception. His Sky Space at the Museum der Moderne on Monchsberg is a permanent chamber open to the sky, calibrated to make the sky itself appear to change colour.
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Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa is the Catalan sculptor best known for monumental heads with closed eyes, colossal and serene, figures that seem to be thinking something the viewer is not invited to hear. Salzburg has two points of…
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Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle is the director whose visual world defined what Mozart looked like at the Salzburg Festival for a generation. Working with Karl Bohm and Karajan from the late 1960s through the 1980s, his…
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Johann Baptist Hagenauer
Another Hagenauer from the Mozart family's inner circle. Johann Baptist was the son of Lorenz Hagenauer, the Mozart family's landlord, and brother of Dominicus Hagenauer, for whom Mozart composed the Dominicus Mass. He…
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach built four churches in Salzburg in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, all commissioned by Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun, and created the architectural character that makes the…