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.