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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely translated authors of the 20th century. Born in Vienna in 1881 to a prosperous Jewish family, he became a biographer, novella writer, playwright, and finally a memoirist whose…
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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Stephan Balkenhol
Two works by Stephan Balkenhol occupy Salzburg's Festival precinct, placed there in 2007 as part of the Walk of Modern Art. Sphaera on Kapitelplatz: a bronze man in a white shirt and dark trousers, standing some nine…
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Thaddaeus Ropac
The gallerist who chose Salzburg over Vienna. Thaddaeus Ropac opened his Salzburg gallery on Mirabellplatz in 1983, two years after a first space in Lienz, having interned with Joseph Beuys, and built from it one of…
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Theodor Billroth
Theodor Billroth performed the first successful gastrectomy in 1881 and founded modern abdominal surgery. He was also one of Johannes Brahms's closest friends. Every summer Billroth came to St. Gilgen on the…
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Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard is the writer who built his career on hating Austria, and Salzburg is the city where that hatred was formed. He attended school here under bombardment, trained at the Mozarteum, reported from its…
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Tommaso di Garona
The sculptor who created the Residenzbrunnen, the magnificent baroque fountain at the centre of Residenzplatz. Completed around 1661, its three-tiered composition of sea gods, tritons, and horses rising from cascading…
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Tony Cragg
A Turner Prize-winning British sculptor whose Caldera (2008) stands on Makartplatz near the Dreifaltigkeitskirche. The large bronze's swirling, cave-like interior invites visitors to step inside, one of the few Walk of…
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Vincenzo Scamozzi
The architect whose grandest vision for Salzburg was never built. Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau hired Vincenzo Scamozzi, a pupil of Palladio and one of the most influential architects of the Italian Renaissance, to design…
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Wilhelm Furtwängler
Wilhelm Furtwangler was among the supreme conductors of the 20th century, and among the most morally contested. He stayed in Germany through the Nazi period while others fled, and his post-war return to the Salzburg…
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Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the Salzburg State writer who turned Austrian crime fiction into something strange and funny and dark. Born in the mountains at Maria Alm, he wrote his way out through linguistics, advertising, and…
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Salzburg's most famous son. Born at Getreidegasse 9 on 27 January 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed extraordinary musical talent from earliest childhood. His father Leopold Mozart recognised the gift immediately and…
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta's 1962 Salzburg debut with a 26-year-old's fearlessness and the Vienna Philharmonic's full weight behind him opened a Festival relationship that ran for decades. He is among the conductors who helped make…