Vita

2016
Objects - Dead tree alive / Living colors. Field - Burning Hill (by Willy Vienna) Golden Order of Merit from the state of Vienna Sculptures & Field designed by Willy Vienna – Dad tree alive / Living colours / Burning Hill Revised 2nd Edition IRELAND GLENKEEN GARDEN: 2015
Deutscher Gartenbuchpreis GLENKEEN GARDEN: 2010 – 2013
IRELAND GLENKEEN GARDEN, garden book with five photographers.: 2008
Bridge project, TRIALTO LIGHT, with Gregor Eichinger.: 2007
Heinz Lindinger BOOK TRANSROMANTICA and EXHIBITION at Galerie Exner.: 2005 – 2008
Bridge project, TRIALTO Vienna, with Gregor Eichinger.: 2005
Bridge project, TERMINAL, with Gregor Eichinger.: 2000 - 2001
With Wolfgang Weiss (Wiener Festwochen), artistic advisor for the millennium celebrations of the city of Vienna.: 2000
Bridge project, two-story bridge, Marienbrücke in Vienna with Gregor Eichinger.: 1999
Bridge project, roo ng over of Marienbrücke in Vienna with Gregor Eichinger.: 1998
Started garden design GLENKEEN GARDEN Ireland.: 1998
Started selling ROTER ENGEL, REISS BAR, RON CON SODA, FIRST FLOOR: 1997
HONGKONG MEETS VIENNA open-air festival in Vienna, on Franz Josefs-Kai.: 1996
Met my Ulli in Ireland. LIVE MUSIC AWARD; Vienna, Rosenhügel Start of the garden project IRELAND GLENKEEN GARDEN SUMMER IN THE CITY open-air festival in Vienna on Franz-Josefs-Kai: 1995
CHRIS BRITZ EXHIBITION VIENNA: 1994
RON CON SODA, Cuban style bar in Vienna, designed by Eichinger or Knechtl. FIRST FLOOR, American style bar in Vienna, designed by Eichinger or Knechtl.: 1993
Konzept Opernball Wien: 1992
First Austrian winner of the Honorary Champagne Medal from Comité Interprofesionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC). Book - MYTHOS BAR. History of bars and bar stories.: 1991
VERDE VELTINER, wine with minimal mousseux, similar to Portuguese vinos verdes. ÖSTERREICHISCHER LUFTFAHRTSBALL (aviation ball), concept and decoration.: 1989
POYS brut (at the same time as Willi Bründlmayer) was Austria’s first sparkling wine from red and white grapes.: 1988
3rd CHAMPAGNE BALL with Zizi Jeanmaire, decoration by Professor Oberhuber, Heinz Lindinger, Brigitte Kowanz, Ernst Caramelle REISSANTE, first Austrian frizzante.: 1987 – 1989
VIENNA WAITER DERBY: 1987
2nd CHAMPAGNE BALL with Juliette Greco, decoration by Mario Terzcic. Start of FASCHING IM BERMUDADREIECK (carnival celebration) ROOF BUILT OVER Bermudadreieck First prize WIENER FREMDENVERKEHRSPREIS (Vienna tourism award).: 1986
1st CHAMPAGNE BALL, opening of the Vienna ball season at Konzerthaus Vienna (2,200 guests) with Charles Aznavour and decoration by Christian Attersee.: 1985
CAFÉ BILLARD in Vienna: 1984
Married Britti. WILDES ZIMMER, „theater of fools“, bar, and exhibition space in Vienna, designed by Coop Himmelblau.: 1983
GALERIE ROTER ENGEL: 1982
CARNEVAL IN VENEDIG erste Street Party Wiens. Admission to the exclusive Cercle Des Amis De La Veuve: 1981
ROTER ENGEL, live music bar in Vienna, designed by Coop Himmelblau, i.e. together with Sepp Fischer (Krah Krah) and Wolfgang Coural (Kaktus), co-founder of the BERMUDADREIECK (nightlife district).: 1980
Christa passed away.: 1979
Co-founder of the monthly magazine WIENER with Gert Winkler and Günter Lebisch.: 1977
REISS Bar Vienna, first champagne bar in the world, designed by Coop Himmelblau.: 1974
First collaboration with Coop Himmelblau on trade show stand of Cincinnati Milacron at K 75 in Düsseldorf, Germany.: 1971
Birth of my daughter Carina-Maria: 1969
Married Christa.: 1966
Birth of my son Clemens: 1966 -1980
Ogilvy & Mather (advertising agency) Sieber (advertising agency) Satke & Beer (advertising agency) Satke & Partner (innovation consulting) Masterfood (Group Product Manager Confectionary). Cincinnati Milacron (injection molding and extrusion, Director of Sales and Marketing): 1965
First Pop Art shop TROEDELTREPPE in Vienna with Gerhard Ita, designed by Heinz Neumann.

1943 – 1966

I was born in Vienna in 1943. I liked playing in bomb craters, as the photo shows. I grew up in Vienna’s second district, Leopoldstadt, which was then the Russian Zone. Like Berlin, Vienna was occupied and divided into four zones.

After completing secondary school, I took a stab at studying law, as my parents had wanted. After two semesters and the first state exam, I gave up. In 1962 I headed off to swinging London (Stones, Stones, Stones and a bit of the Beatles). There I studied English and attended the London Fashion Design School. André Courrèges was in his heyday. In 1964 I returned to Vienna, where I attended the fashion class of Gertrude Höchsmann at the Academy of Applied Arts. After three semesters, I switched to the Vienna University of Economics and Business to study advertising and marketing. The years of my education ended then. I was off and running- learning by doing.