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The documentary that got its directors' citizenships revoked — opens tomorrow at Burg Kino

Thursday in October has a particular quality — the week has momentum but the weekend is still a day away, which makes it a good moment to think about what you actually want to do with Friday.

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Vienna Future Food Week — Future Market
Don't Miss9th · Alsergrund

Vienna Future Food Week — Future Market

When
9 October 2026
Where
9th · Alsergrund

Viennese food companies are showcasing innovations in sustainability and resilience at the Markterei Market Hall this weekend. You can taste directly from producers — urban agriculture projects, fermented goods, healthier approaches to familiar products. It's part of Vienna Future Food Week (Oct 1–10), but the Future Market on Friday and Saturday is where the actual sampling happens. Severingasse, 9th district. Free entry; tastings are à la carte.

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10. Genussfest — Sussitz
Worth Finding2nd · Leopoldstadt

10. Genussfest — Sussitz

When
10 October 2026
Where
2nd · Leopoldstadt

Sussitz marks a decade at the Karmelitermarkt with a producer-focused celebration: 20+ winemakers and food artisans from across Austria pour their own bottles and tell their stories. Guest of honor is Vittorio Gianni Capovilla, one of Italy's most respected distillers—a figure revered in the field for revolutionizing fruit distillation through water-bath methods that preserve delicate aromas. This is the kind of event where you actually talk to the people making the wine, no velvet rope, no gatekeeping. The afternoon runs 15–21h on October 10 in the 2nd district.

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Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war at Top Kino
On Screen6th · Mariahilf

Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war at Top Kino

When
6 October 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where
6th · Mariahilf

2026 marks the centenary of Ingeborg Bachmann's birth — the Austrian poet and novelist who remains one of the most important German-language writers of the 20th century, and one of the least known outside the German-speaking world. Regina Schilling's hybrid documentary gives Sandra Hüller the task of inhabiting Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome, weaving together archival footage, Bachmann's own writings, and re-enactments filmed in the apartment where she actually lived. The result is less a conventional biography than an act of literary channelling — Schilling using Hüller's extraordinary presence to make Bachmann's voice feel alive and urgent now. For internationals in Vienna who have walked past the Bachmann plaques without knowing who she was, this is the entry point. Top Kino screens it this week and again on Sunday October 11 as a Frühstückskino (breakfast cinema) — a distinctly Viennese institution that makes the whole thing feel like a proper Sunday morning cultural ritual. English subtitles.

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Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war at Top Kino
On Screen6th · Mariahilf

Ingeborg Bachmann – Jemand, der einmal ich war at Top Kino

When
6 October 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where
6th · Mariahilf

Ingeborg Bachmann is Austria's defining 20th-century poet — and most internationals in Vienna have walked past a street named after her without knowing why. Regina Schilling's hybrid documentary gives you the reason. Sandra Hüller, the defining actress of contemporary European cinema, inhabits Bachmann on an imaginary day in Rome, weaving together reenactments, archival footage, and Bachmann's own texts into something that feels less like a biopic and more like a séance. The film opened DOK.fest Munich 2026 to strong reviews. Hüller brings characteristic precision to a writer born in Klagenfurt, who lived in Vienna and Rome, wrote in exile from a country she found suffocating, and died in circumstances that remain disputed. Top Kino's intimate Kleiner Saal makes it feel like a private conversation. OmeU (original version with German subtitles, English-accessible for anyone who knows the context).

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Albertina 250 Jahre — "Sammeln für die Zukunft", June 19–Oct 11
Don't Miss1st · Innere Stadt

Albertina 250 Jahre — "Sammeln für die Zukunft", June 19–Oct 11

When
19 June 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

The Albertina marks 250 years in 2026 with an anniversary exhibition that reframes the collection's founding story. Archduchess Marie Christine, co-founder alongside Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, endowed the collection with both wealth and artistic direction — a role that history has largely credited to her husband alone. The exhibition *Sammeln für die Zukunft* (Collecting for the Future) runs June 19–October 11 and spans the museum's 1.2 million objects: from Dürer's Hare to Schiele's expressive drawings, tracing how a private collection became one of the world's most important graphic art institutions. The angle is not "visit the Albertina" but "the Albertina's anniversary show is an argument about who gets credit for founding one of the world's great drawing collections." Marie Christine's role as both patron and artist — she was active as a painter herself — shaped the collection's scope in ways that deserve to be named. The museum is in the 1st district, Albertinapl. 1. Standard admission applies. The **Open Door event** on July 4–5 (the founding anniversary weekend) offers free access — a good entry point if you've been meaning to look.

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Njola Impressions: Kiteezi — Theseustempel
Don't Miss1st · Innere Stadt

Njola Impressions: Kiteezi — Theseustempel

When
28 May 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Ugandan artist Nabukenya Allen (Njola) is transforming waste from the Kiteezi landfill — which collapsed in a devastating landslide in August 2024 — into objects and installations about renewal, over-consumption, and the Boda-Boda drivers of Kampala. The work is on view outdoors in the Volksgarten's Theseustempel, the 1st district. The opening vernissage on May 28 at 19:00 is free. The exhibition runs through October 11. Allen is in residence in Vienna through PART International Art Residency Austria. This is the kind of work that sits at the intersection of Ugandan urban politics and Viennese institutional space — rare enough to be worth making time for.

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Shows, openings and one-offs with a closing date. See them before they go.

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Lebt und arbeitet in Wien — Kunsthalle Wien, May 1–October 26
Don't Miss7th · Neubau

Lebt und arbeitet in Wien — Kunsthalle Wien, May 1–October 26

When
1 May 2026 – 26 October 2026
Where
7th · Neubau

Contemporary art from Vienna, May–October. The Kunsthalle Wien runs "Lebt und arbeitet in Wien" across both its locations — Museumsquartier (the 7th) and Karlsplatz (the 4th) — a major survey of 56 artists who live and work in the city right now. Curated by Daniel Baumann, Michelle Cotton, and Monika Georgieva, the show spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, film, and video. Over 130 works. The title is the argument: not "Austrian art" but art made by people who chose Vienna. Thirty-eight artists created new work for this exhibition. It runs until October 26.

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Sleaford Mods — Arena Wien, November 3
Don't Miss3rd · Landstraße

Sleaford Mods — Arena Wien, November 3

When
3 November 2026
Where
3rd · Landstraße

Sleaford Mods — the Nottingham duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn — play Arena Wien on November 3 at 20:00. Fifteen years of two-minute electronic blasts and working-class fury, delivered with the deadpan precision of someone who has run out of patience. The music is politically direct, formally uncompromising, and cuts through noise. The Arena Wien is the right room: mid-size, standing, the crowd that doesn't need the music explained to them. Sleaford Mods shows sell out. Tickets via Live Nation.

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Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural Archetypes — Leopold Museum, July 24
Don't Miss7th · Neubau

Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural Archetypes — Leopold Museum, July 24

When
24 July 2026 – 10 January 2027
Where
7th · Neubau

Two artists, one precise pairing. Herbert Boeckl (1894–1966) was an Austrian expressionist painter whose raw, physical figuration became one of the most important contributions to 20th-century Austrian art. Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), born in Königsberg, worked as a sculptor — his half-figures and heads carry the same quality of compressed physical presence. The connection isn't obvious at first, but it is exact: both artists worked in figuration when abstraction was dominant, and both made work that is difficult to look away from. The Leopold Museum is the right place for this show. Its collection is built around exactly this tradition — figuration as a serious commitment, not a retreat. The exhibition runs from July 24 through January 10, 2027, in the 7th district. Standard Leopold Museum admission.

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Worth Finding

Places that reward the detour. Mostly evergreen, always specific.

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Kunstsupermarkt (Art Supermarket) — 20th Edition
Worth Finding6th · Mariahilf

Kunstsupermarkt (Art Supermarket) — 20th Edition

When
14 October 2026 – 28 February 2027
Where
6th · Mariahilf

Thousands of original artworks at fixed, affordable prices. Ninety artists from 14 countries show paintings, drawings, photography, and small sculptures. The vernissage opens October 14 at 7 pm. Then the fair runs Thursday–Friday 11 am–7 pm, Saturday 10 am–6 pm, and Monday–Wednesday 11 am–7 pm through the end of February. Free entry. Mariahilfer Straße, the 6th district.

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Oak Brew — 1010 Flagship
Worth Finding1st · Innere Stadt

Oak Brew — 1010 Flagship

Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Specialty coffee café in Vienna's 1st district with two locations: the flagship at Johannesgasse 23 and a second spot at Wiedner Hauptstraße 50. Opened recently to quiet local attention, it's built around quality espresso, brunch, and a carefully considered interior—wooden elements, high ceilings, the kind of space that makes you stay longer than you planned. Turkish eggs are the standout breakfast item. The baristas know their work. Monday to Saturday. Coffee runs €3–5, brunch plates €8–15. It's the sort of place that feels effortless to return to.

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Karmelitermarkt
Worth Finding2nd · Leopoldstadt

Karmelitermarkt

Where
2nd · Leopoldstadt

The Karmeliterviertel's open-air farmers' market runs Fridays and Saturdays year-round on Karmeliterplatz in the 2nd district. Once quiet, the neighbourhood has transformed around it—galleries, studios, and restaurants now fill the streets, but the market itself remains anchored in the practical: locals buying vegetables, not tourists buying vegetables for photos. The dining scene has grown without losing the neighbourhood feel. Come early if you want a seat at one of the surrounding cafés; stay for lunch if you find yourself lingering. Free entry; vendor prices vary.

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Out & About

Walks, rides and the outdoors, for when the flat feels small.

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urbanize! 2026 — Reclaim the Streets!
Out & About

urbanize! 2026 — Reclaim the Streets!

When
13 October 2026 – 18 October 2026

The 17th urbanize! festival transforms Vienna's streets into the main subject of inquiry. Oct 13–18 across multiple neighborhoods: talks, workshops, city walks, films, and artistic interventions exploring climate adaptation, mobility, social justice, and public space. The opening event on Oct 13 at Caritas Kirchenschiff features the Community Sprechchor from the Burgtheater, a talk on streets as urban space by Stefan Bendiks, and food and drinks from Küchenschiff. Free entry; some formats require registration. This is genuinely local work — not a festival for tourists, but a six-day conversation about how streets function as gathering space and what reclaiming them means.

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Sophienpark opening — former Sophienspital garden, June 12
Out & About7th · Neubau

Sophienpark opening — former Sophienspital garden, June 12

When
12 June 2026 – 31 October 2026
Where
7th · Neubau

The Sophienpark opens to the public on June 12 — the courtyard garden of the former Sophienspital on Apollogasse in the 7th. The Sophienspital was Vienna's main women's hospital for over a century; the complex has been slowly repurposed since its closure. The park is free and accessible on its own, though it pairs with the sophie7 restaurant in the Kenyonpavillon if you want to eat. A historic hospital garden that has been closed to the public for decades, now open. The kind of discovery that only works in Vienna, where history is always just behind a door. Open June 12–October 31.

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Wieninger am Nussberg — Buschenschank, the 19th
Out & About19th · Döbling

Wieninger am Nussberg — Buschenschank, the 19th

When
1 April 2026 – 31 October 2026
Where
19th · Döbling

Wieninger's Buschenschank sits on the Nussberg with a proper vineyard terrace behind it — the vines you're drinking from grow directly below. The view is called the Meeresterrasse because on a clear day it looks like a sea horizon, the whole city laid out in one angle. This is not a tourist Heuriger. It's a working vineyard that happens to have the best view in Vienna. The Wieninger family has been making wine on the Nussberg since the 1970s and is one of the most respected names in Viennese wine. The Buschenschank opens from April 2026: Friday and Saturday from midday, Sundays and holidays from 11 (expanding to more days as summer progresses — check wieninger-am-nussberg.at for the current schedule). Wine runs €5–6 a glass. Reservation recommended, especially on weekends. The angle is simple: you sit on a vineyard terrace with a view over the whole city and drink wine made from the vines directly behind you. The Meeresterrasse is the reason to go. Everything else follows.

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On Screen

Independent and arthouse cinema across the city this week.

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Teresas Körper at Top Kino
On Screen6th · Mariahilf

Teresas Körper at Top Kino

When
29 September 2026 – 8 October 2026
Where
6th · Mariahilf

Teresa's Körper is the debut feature of Magdalena Chmielewska, a Polish director based in Vienna. The film is a portrait of her own mother, Teresa, who has lived for years with debilitating back pain, and the three women — mother and two daughters, including Chmielewska herself — who carry the weight of that suffering together. Chmielewska blends documentary observation with fictionalized memory and ritual, creating something that sits between genres. The film won Best Director at the Max Ophüls Prize and the Jury Special Prize for Screenplay at the Diagonale 2026. It's an intimate, body-centred piece of filmmaking — the kind that rarely gets a wide release but deserves one. Screening daily at Top Kino through October 8. The film is 76 minutes, in German with English subtitles.

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Fatherland (Vaterland) at Burg Kino
On Screen1st · Innere Stadt

Fatherland (Vaterland) at Burg Kino

When
7 October 2026 – 12 October 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Pawł Pawlikowski completes his post-WWII trilogy — following Ida (2013) and Cold War (2018) — with this quietly devastating 82-minute road movie set in 1949 Germany. Sandra Hüller plays Erika Mann, actress, writer and rally driver, accompanying her Nobel Prize-winning father Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) on a journey from American-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar, sixteen years after their exile in the United States. Shot in black and white, the film is less a biopic than a meditation on what it means to return to a country that has destroyed itself — and on the particular burden carried by those who left and survived. Premiered at Cannes and holding 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is one of the most praised European films of the year. Burg Kino screens it in OV (original version, German/French/English/Russian) — the only cinema in Vienna that consistently programmes original-language films — with screenings on Oct 7, 9, and 12. For anyone who has ever felt the weight of belonging to a place that has changed beyond recognition, this one lands hard.

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Fatherland at Burg Kino
On Screen1st · Innere Stadt

Fatherland at Burg Kino

When
6 October 2026 – 15 October 2026
Where
1st · Innere Stadt

Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland is the third film in his trilogy of 20th-century European fractures — after Ida and Cold War — and it may be his most devastating. Set in summer 1949, it follows Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a road trip across post-war Germany, from US-occupied Frankfurt to Soviet Weimar in a black Buick. Erika Mann was an actress, writer, anti-fascist activist, and one of the exile generation's most undersung figures. Sandra Hüller is extraordinary in the role. The film premiered at Cannes 2026 and is now showing at Burg Kino in the original version with English subtitles — the only Vienna cinema screening it in OV. This matters: the film moves between German, French, English, and Russian, and the language-switching is part of the storytelling itself. 82 minutes. €10.50.

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Joseph Brot
Worth Finding3rd · Landstraße

Joseph Brot

Where
3rd · Landstraße

Award-winning organic bakery with two Vienna locations: Landstrasser Hauptstraße 4 (3rd) and Albertinaplatz Führichgasse 6 (1st). Everything is made by hand from heritage grains — sourdough fermented for at least 24 hours, sometimes a full week. Bread runs €4–8, pastries €3–5. Breakfast, coffee, and seasonal specials. No industrial shortcuts. Joseph won the LaListe 2026 award for its commitment to traditional craft and the Ur-Gut Initiative, which revives heirloom grain varieties in their Austrian home regions.

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Buchhandlung List
Worth Finding9th · Alsergrund

Buchhandlung List

Where
9th · Alsergrund

Independent bookstore in the 9th district, owned and run by native-speaker booksellers who curate French, Italian, German, English, and Spanish literature. The selection is personal and deep — no algorithm, no bestseller padding. Staff speak their languages fluently and take time with recommendations. They host readings, book clubs, and literary events throughout the month. Open Mon–Fri 10 am–6:30 pm, Sat 10 am–4 pm. Books vary in price; special orders ship free from €50.

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