Михаил Хойпль – австрийский политик от социал-демократической партии. Начиная с 1994 года является бургомистром Вены.
Будучи школьником, Михаил, также как и его младший брат, являлся членом национал-освободительного юношеского движения (Pennalen Burschenschaft)
В Кремсе. После окончания гимназии, он изучал биологию и зоологию в Венском университете.
Хойпль стал бургомистром Вены 7 ноября 1994 года.
Со времени своего назначения на пост бургомистра, он выиграл три избирательные компании с возрастающим преобладанием голосов за социал-демократическую партию.

Ныне он состоит во втором браке с Хельгой Хойпль-Сайтц, с которой они живут раздельно и с которой он имеет общего сына, у него также есть дочь от первого брака. Скрытый лидер и мощная фигура в стане австрийской социал-демократии.

Yesterday website “Disclosure” had 650 pageviews and 350 unique visitors. For me it was sad and minute popularity, as I was thinking about Jörg Haider and that he looked unhappy during the last months before this accident. Photo of Michael Häupl was made by me yesterday at Rathausplatz

Alexander Van der Bellen, leader of the Greens, during final event of election campaign in Wien Museum at Karlsplatz

Considering technical aspects of photo, it is one of my lucky ones, as it was very pleasing white light in the conference hall, and being in topboots with high heels, I equipped myself only with lightest 50mm lens

Reporter work definitely does not add much to woman’s good looks and dignity, sometimes it is necessary in literal sense to crawl on the floor on your knees or even worse in front of big audience

I put on short skirt and stockings, and being in great hurry this morning, after taking shower I had put on not black, but red underwear, and when I squat in front of Van der Bellen I demonstrated perhaps too boldly to him today my political color favors.

Whenever I am looking at leader of Greens, expression of his face reminds me somebody, whom I knew very well in past times

Heinz-Christian Strache, who by education is a dental technician, has been active in local politics in Vienna since 1991.
Snapshots taken from a video in the late 80s were published in January 2007 showing a uniformed Strache participating in paramilitary training activities. Other people on the pictures were claimed to be known neo-nazis. Strache has denied that, claiming the pictures are of him playing Gotcha.
At the end of January, further pictures were published, showing Strache performing a Nazi salute (the Kühnen salute). Strache denied the allegations prior to publication of the pictures. After publication, Strache argued that the picture showed him ordering three beers and was not a Nazi salute.

Österreich-Umfrage: 28% – SPÖ

Quotes about politics

Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.

Peggy Noonan

It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Anthony Trollope

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan

It was election campaign event in Vienna Stadthalle, which attracted thousands of people who expressed their support for social democrats prime candidate Werner Faymann.
I talked to a few ordinary persons who enjoyed themselves in buffet of concert hall during the speech of Werner Faymann looking at the screen of big monitor with his face, and all of them described Faymann as nice lad, at the same time all of them aware of the fact that nobody must take election promises of social democrats at earnest. My confidants also noticed that a lot of money was invested in this election campaign for rivers of beer, wine, sandwiches and souvenirs with expectations that Austrians would give their voices for those who once generously let them to become drunk.
All photographers were seized with mass psychosis of depicting and pursuing Werner Faymann. At the same time many others not less interesting figures of Austrian social democracy didn’t get sufficient attention they deserved.
Those who stay out of the circle of crowd’s blind admiration often look much more interesting without their usual protecting mask.
Personally for me, Gusenbauer presents more inner power, than Werner Faymann. Perhaps because he has much more experience.

Streit und gegenseitige Schuldzuweisungen gehören mittlerweile zum politischen Alltag in Kärnten.
Seit einigen Tagen hat der SPÖ Klubobmann von Kärnten, Herwig Seiser, ein neues und ertragreiches Terrain an fruchtbaren Kritikmöglichkeiten entdeckt. Es handelt sich hierbei um das Gesundheitssystem in Kärnten.
Dieses wäre in Österreich vorbildhaft, und würde nun von Haiders Leuten völlig ruiniert werden, so der Sozialdemokrat. Ausserdem bezeichnet er die Regierungspartei als rülpsende Ahnungslose, die durch lautes Gebrüll ihre Inkompetenz verstecken wollten.
Das sind natürlich schwere Anschuldigungen, die dem neutralen politischen Beobachter das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt. Doch wer denkt Klubobmann Seiser würde sich mit dieser Kritik zufrieden geben, der liegt falsch.
Denn der Sozialdemokrat legt noch einmal nach, und beschimpft seinen politischen Gegner als machtbesessen, der die Wünsche und Bedürfnisse der Bürger sträflich vernachlässigen würde.
Doch der kritische Sozialdemokrat wäre kein engagierter Politiker, hätte er nicht eine Lösung aus der Krise in Gepäck. “Die SPÖ soll wieder die Macht in Kärnten übernehmen, denn nur wir Sozialdemokraten nehmen die Wünsche und Ängste der Bürger ernst, und stellen immer den Menschen an die erste Stelle”, so Herwig Seiser.
Da können die Kärntner also noch einmal erleichtert aufatmen. Sowas Nachrichten

Haider was a long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). When he stepped down as party’s chairman in 2000, he remained its major figure until 2005. In April 2005 he founded a new party, the “Alliance for the Future of Austria” (BZÖ-Bündnis Zukunft Österreich)

Joerg Haider was born in 1950 in Bad Goisern, Upper Austria. His father Robert Haider worked as a shoemaker, his mother Dorothea Rupp was a teacher.

Both parents were active members of the Nazi Party. Robert Haider joined the ‘Hitler Jugend’ when he was fifteen. In 1933, after Nazi organisations were banned in Austria, he participated in several illegal actions. In 1934 he took part in the failed nazi putsch and was forced to flee to Bavaria, where he joined the nazi party. (more…)

Today I visited press conference with Joerg Haider and Peter Westenthaler in BZOe quarters. For a long time already, I wished I could photograph Joerg Haider. His speech was rather short though. As I was not satisfied with regular shots I made, which looked rather boring, similar to millions of other press snaps, I prefer to transform them including tiny part of my personality in every picture.
Pressekonferenz mit BZÖ-Chef Klubobmann Peter Westenthaler
und Landeshauptmann Jörg Haider. Thema: “Aktuelles zur Nationalratswahl”
Несколько трансформированных снимков, сделаных мной сегодня во время пресс-конференции с Йоргом Хайдером и Петером Вестенталером в штаб-квартире BZOe
в Вене на улице Доротеергассе – на подходе. Йорг Хайдер – очень колоритная фигура, один из немногих австрийских политиков, о ком вы наверно что-нибудь слышали.