Where were you born?
In Vienna.
Where do you live?
Karmeliterviertel.
What’s best about your neighbourhood?
The perfect infrastructure.
If money was no object where would you live?
Maybe a little higher up to have a nice view over the rooftops of the city.
What’s your favourite Vienna street?
Seilergasse.
Which are your favourite stores?
Mode Mühlbauer in the city centre.
And your favourite restaurants?
For breakfast, Marktachterl. For dinner, Skopik & Lohn.
Any recommendations for Austrian dishes to try?
Wiener schnitzel, gulasch, zwiebelrostbraten, tafelspitz, topfenstrudel and Ischler kipferl.
Where do you go for a drink with friends?
Loos Bar, Engländer and Kaffeeküche.
Which places sum up Vienna for you?
The Danube, the Prater, Pratersauna, Leopoldsberg, the heuriger and, for shopping, the Golden U, which is made up of little streets such as Seilergasse, Spiegelgasse, Dorotheergasse and Bräunerstrasse.
Where do you take out-of-town friends?
Somewhere different each time, so I, too, can discover something new.
Which do you think is the best museum in town?
MUMOK.
Can you recommend a good hotel?
The Hollmann Beletage.
Any advice for visitors?
Don’t read any guides, just float and get carried away.
Tell us a secret.
It’s not all about the city centre, the Vienna suburbs are just as interesting. See the Lainzer Tiergarten, Bisamberg, Kirche am Steinhof, Zentralfriedhof, Lobau, Alte Donau or the Wotruba Kirche.
