The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria

Austria is a pretty great place to live. Until you receive an official-looking letter in the post and suddenly feel like you've committed a crime you didn't know existed. In this episode, Jake sits down with Patrick, an Austrian lawyer specialising in immigration and employment law at Law and Beyond, who's made it his mission to explain complicated legal stuff in a way that doesn't require a law d...

We're back, TWG Gang! New studio, same two idiots, and enough questionable observations about life in Austria to fill another episode of absolute nonsense. Here's what we're getting into this week: What we'd miss most if we had to leave Austria forever. Why Jacob still doesn't understand what the hell "Lattela" is. How Jacob got hit on by another dad at a playground. Why children's birthday partie...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 english below PART 2 AUS GRAZ! 💚 Nach unserem Steiermark-Crashkurs in Part 1 widmen wir uns diesmal den wirklich wichtigen Fragen. Zum Beispiel: Kann ein Brot 60 Dollar wert sein? Martin Auer hat in New York mit seinem Brotprojekt RYE eröffnet und plötzlich sc...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 english below WE’RE BACK! ❤️ Nach einem Monat Sommerpause sind wir wieder da und wir starten direkt mit Part 1 unseres Live-Podcasts aus Graz! Und Graz, ihr wart großartig. 🥹 Ausverkauftes Haus, ein ziemlich unschlagbarer Blick auf den Grazer Uhrturm und ein P...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 We’re taking one whole month off and will be back on September 28 . Okay, TWG Gang. We did it. We survived another year of this completely random, slightly unhinged thing we call The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria . And what a year it’s been. Record podcast l...

We had such a great time at Kultursommer Wien! Full house, not a single spare seat, and lots of funny conversations with the audience about what makes the perfect summer day in Vienna. Unfortunately, we had some technical issues with the recording... such a shame. Hear you next week! Kisses & bussis Jacob & Gabriel

Nychos is one of the most internationally recognised street artists to come out of Austria - specifically Styria - with his enormous anatomical murals appearing on walls around the world. In this episode, Jake and Nychos go well beyond street art. They talk about living abroad, how leaving Austria changes the way you see Austrian culture, and that strange in-between feeling of still being Austrian...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Jacob is back from wintery Australia and immediately gets slapped in the face by Vienna’s second heatwave of the summer. He and Gabriel compare notes on what extreme heat does to the city, why Austrians announce 38-41 degrees like an incoming natural disaster,...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Annabel Lubega is a content creator at Vienna Würstelstand. She was born in Austria, grew up in Singapore and Uganda, and moved back to Vienna three years ago. The culture shock hit her immediately. In this episode, she shares what she loves and hates about Aus...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 english below Jacob ist auf Urlaub in Australien und Gabriel schmeißt die Podcast-Bude alleine. Na ja, nicht ganz: Er hat sich Verstärkung von seiner guten Freundin und Radio-Kollegin Daniela Schmied geholt. Dani war schon einmal bei The Wurst Guide zu Gast, di...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Jacob is on a mission to find German words that deserve to be stolen by the English language — from herumgurken to a Schuss of milk . Gabriel introduces him to the deeply cursed world of Chatroulette, they accidentally pitch an idea of a TV show, and somehow th...

In this special episode of The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria, we team up with SPDL (Siemens Personaldienstleistungen GmbH) to explore a job many of us think we understand... until we actually meet the people doing it. This time we're diving into the role of Junior Sales (m/w/d) Fire Safety. What does a sales person at Siemens actually do all day? How technical do you need to be? What makes some...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻   It’s hot, sweaty and deeply unserious. welcome to our heatwave episode. Gabriel and Jacob talk about whether complaining about the heat helps, why Austrian summer feels like lukewarm breakfast porridge to an Australian, Gabriel’s hike to the Drei Zinnen, Jaco...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Jake is flying solo this episode because Gabriel is off on holidays. So this one gets a little more personal: a diary-entry-meets-cultural-rant about whether Vienna shrinks you, or just quietly asks you to turn the volume down. Jake talks about the strange feel...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻   How to Find Joy in an Austrian Summer The World Cup is in full swing, Trump is doing Trump things, and summer has officially arrived in Austria. So in the third episode of our season special, we’re asking: How to find joy in an Austrian summer? We share perso...

Es geht direkt los! Gabriel und Jacob treffen nach einem Monat endlich wieder alleine im Studio aufeinander und sprechen über:    🗣️ „interracial“ – warum man das auf Englisch sagen kann, auf Deutsch aber nicht einfach übersetzt 🧠 warum „Zuversicht“ nicht dasselbe ist wie „confidence“ 🇦🇹 was „doch“ und „so“ auf Deutsch eigentlich bedeuten 💬 warum manche Wörter eher Gefühlswörter sind als klare Ü...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻   In dieser Folge lesen wir aus unserem Buch „Schau ma mal – Ein Australier und ein Wiener suchen das Herz von Österreich“ . Das Kapitel heißt: „Tote Tiere an der Wand“ . Und damit ist eigentlich schon viel gesagt. Denn sobald man in Österreich Wien verlässt, h...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻  Thomas Brezina hat über 600 Bücher geschrieben, mehr als 40 Millionen Bücher verkauft und wurde in 35 Sprachen übersetzt. Er ist einer der erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendbuchautoren aber für viele ist er nicht einfach nur ein Autor oder Ge...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Im zweiten Teil unserer ausverkauften Live-Podcast-Show geht es um die große Frage: How to Austria? Also: Wie funktioniert dieses Land eigentlich? Zum Einstieg fragen wir unser internationales Publikum, was für sie typisch österreichisch ist und welche Tipps un...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 Diese Folge wurde live bei unserer sold-out „How to Austria“ Show in der Wiener Superbude aufgezeichnet – und sagen wir so: Live-Podcast ist einfach ein anderes Level. Schön, dass ihr alle da wart! Unglaublich.

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻 🎤 Let’s talk ESC mit Eurovision Song Contest Professor Mario Lackner Vom Ursprung des ESC bis zu seiner weltweiten Bedeutung: Gemeinsam mit Mario Lackner sprechen wir über alles, was man über den Eurovision Song Contest wissen muss. Warum gibt es den ESC überh...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻  We thought we’d talk about love and weddings—but ended up somewhere much more uncomfortable. After a post by Vienna Würstelstand ( “If you live in Vienna, you know these eleven kinds of immigrants” ) sparked mixed reactions, we started questioning something bi...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻  This episode gets gschmackig! Jacob says Austria is the land of the Spritzer — Gabriel brings the food trends — and we ask: what would future archaeologists actually find here… besides plastic?   Highlights: Austria = Land of the Spritzer 🍷 White wine + soda...

Big thanks to Ottakringer, Vienna’s independent beer brand, for sponsoring this episode and supporting our independent podcast. Cheers! 🍻  Neue Folge ist da — und sie hat alles: Chaos, Gen Z Insights und komplett absurde Geschichten aus Österreich 🇦🇹 Wir haben uns die größte Jugendstudie (Ö3) des Landes reingezogen, verlieren kurz komplett die Kontrolle (inkl. Wasser-Spuck-Moment) und stellen uns...

A solo episode where Jacob goes rogue, cracks open his own book, and serves up a chaotic, no-BS “menu” to Austrian cuisine. From schnitzel rules and sausage identity crises to Heuriger survival tactics and why dessert counts as dinner in this country — it’s part cultural decoding, part stand-up rant, and very much a love letter to the weird, wonderful logic of eating (and drinking) in Austria. Wha...