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02-21-2008, 06:01 AM
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You guys caught on to Mozart already, but Haydn, Strauss and Schubert were all Austrians... From Cinema, besides 'Arnold'  , you can count an unparalleled list of geniuses including von Sternberg, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Eric von Stroheim and Fritz Lang ("M", Metropolis).. about as important a list of visionaries as you could assemble.. (And don't forget actress/scientist Hedy Lamarr too!)Cajun mentioned Buber (!), but I'd put Kafka ahead of him on the writer list... Freud yes, but also important child psychologist/author Bruno Bettelheim and many more.. Some others of note people might not recall or realize as Austrian: the von Trapps ('Sound of Music'); Wolfgang Puck; Theodore Herzl and Simon Weisenthal..
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