Katie Binns is English and has lived in Vienna since October
2005. She is a freelance writer – doing a mixture of
journalism, copywriting and other editorial work. She has
written for the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Music magazine,
Muso and Ryanair's inflight magazine amongst others.
Listening to the various characters who frequented the bar
where she worked as a student made her realise that
everyone has a story to tell. She loves hearing about
people’s experiences and writing about them. Founding
Ether was part of her passion for wanting to know the
comings and goings of people’s lives as well as what
makes up the Vienna vibe. When she isn't asking questions
she spends time going to the theatre, concerts and festivals,
watching science-fiction films, reading celebrity news blogs
and eating Japanese food.
2005. She is a freelance writer – doing a mixture of
journalism, copywriting and other editorial work. She has
written for the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC Music magazine,
Muso and Ryanair's inflight magazine amongst others.
Listening to the various characters who frequented the bar
where she worked as a student made her realise that
everyone has a story to tell. She loves hearing about
people’s experiences and writing about them. Founding
Ether was part of her passion for wanting to know the
comings and goings of people’s lives as well as what
makes up the Vienna vibe. When she isn't asking questions
she spends time going to the theatre, concerts and festivals,
watching science-fiction films, reading celebrity news blogs
and eating Japanese food.
it even more complicated, resides in the UK . She holds a
degree in print journalism and has worked as a freelance
editor, reporter and layouter for numerous British and
German publications (Axel Springer Verlag, FilmExposed
etc.). She established herself as editor-in-chief of Schmidt
Magazine, a community mag for German-speakers in
London, and regularly writes and reports for buzzing music
mag Wears The Trousers. In her free time she plays the
accordion, gigs with several bands, plays volleyball and
keeps the world running!
music. He developed an interest in web design while
managing his band’s internet presence. And it all started
from there… On top of designing and managing several
websites he also finds time to lecture in music at Fareham
College and regularly gigs around the UK.
Vienna since January 2006, although he was a regular visitor
here for several years before then. He works for the United
Nations as an auditor, which basically means that he
reviews the UN’s internal processes and systems. This is
hardly the most glamorous work in the world, and the
German word for auditor (Rechnungsprüfer, literally “invoice
checker”) is no great help when he tries to talk up his job at
parties. He attempts to compensate for this mundanity by
immersing himself in Vienna’s incredible music scene –
hunting through the record shops at weekends, going to as
many live concerts as he can, and sharing his enthusiasm
for music with Ether’s lovely readers.
Rian van Spaandonk grew up in the Netherlands and has
since lived in Finland,
the U.K and Austria. She currently lives
in multicultural Meidling with her
life partner and several
generations of cockroaches. She is a trained radio
journalist
and works as a translator for an international company. In
her spare
time, she writes articles for Ether ,
screenplays
and short stories. If
there is any time left after all
that, she
spends it going to gigs and
festivals and walking in
the
forest.
graduating from Vienna University in Political Science. He
has been writing for the Kleine Zeitung, NEWS magazine
and the online edition of Die Zeit. He has internships lined
up at Der Standard and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to
look forward to. His keen interests remain with the two pillars
of nerd-dom: science fiction and politics.
Jerusha Frost lives in New York City where, among other
things, she is working on obtaining her Masters of Wine.
Having cultivated an interest in wine during her many years
in the food service industry, she finally decided to let it guide
her professional interests after living on a vineyard in
Niederösterreich in 2005/6. Taking part in the harvesting,
pruning, bottling, labeling, selling and consuming, she fell in
love with the crisp elegant minerality so distinctive of
Austria’s whites. Having returned to the US, she tries to
introduce and expose as many as she can to the unique
wines she has become familiar with, particularly the
Rieslings from Achleiten vineyards near Krems an der
Donau and the spicy Grüner Veltliners from the Weinviertel.
Several nights a week she moonlights as a sommelier at
New York's Le Bernadin, where she tries to absorb as
much knowledge as she can from Austrian sommelier Aldo
Sohm.
things, she is working on obtaining her Masters of Wine.
Having cultivated an interest in wine during her many years
in the food service industry, she finally decided to let it guide
her professional interests after living on a vineyard in
Niederösterreich in 2005/6. Taking part in the harvesting,
pruning, bottling, labeling, selling and consuming, she fell in
love with the crisp elegant minerality so distinctive of
Austria’s whites. Having returned to the US, she tries to
introduce and expose as many as she can to the unique
wines she has become familiar with, particularly the
Rieslings from Achleiten vineyards near Krems an der
Donau and the spicy Grüner Veltliners from the Weinviertel.
Several nights a week she moonlights as a sommelier at
New York's Le Bernadin, where she tries to absorb as
much knowledge as she can from Austrian sommelier Aldo
Sohm.
Max Salesse was born in London Hammersmith. He grew
up bilingually with a French father and English mother
whilst moving between Germany, France and Austria.
For the last four years he has been freelancing in
graphics and illustration. He is also a club promoter
and resident dj at the wrckd club. After being offered a place
at the Universität für angewandte Kunst he has returned to
studying. Although Vienna
seems small to many he is glad
to live in this city
and feels part of something growing rather
than
something established.
most of her life. She teaches English and German at a
grammar school and even after all those years still loves her
job. Her greatest passion is reading (right after her husband
and children...) and she adores doing book reviews because
she can devote even more time to reading in her very
busy life.
half Hungarian and would like to one day move somewhere
completely different. She's majoring in journalism at FH
Wien and is currently working on her thesis (a.k.a. that horrid
thing already due in April). She'd have a lot more time to
actually work on it if she wasn't currently freelancing for the
Wiener Zeitung, after having done internships at the ORF,
Der Standard and Kurier. Being a TV series-addict, a hobby
chef, an avid participant of the blogosphere plus living with a
girlfriend and two bunnies doesn't help much with the time
management problem the thesis-writing invokes.
Eva Krauthaker is originally from Slovenia and spent her
childhood drawing and sewing. She moved to Vienna at 19
to attend Fashion College and specialized in theatre
tailoring. After graduating she went on to be a costume
assistant and corset-maker for different theatres and opera
houses in Austria, Germany and Slovenia. She currently
works for the Artothek des Bundes (State Collection of
Modern Art) and studies history of art. She is infatuated with
photography, fashion, poetry, music, painting, belly dancing,
architecture, good food (preferably organic) and wine. She
loves animals but doesn't want to keep them. She is also
highly against enviromental pollution of any kind. She adores
Francesca Woodman and Lisette Model and can't resist
anything sweet.
childhood drawing and sewing. She moved to Vienna at 19
to attend Fashion College and specialized in theatre
tailoring. After graduating she went on to be a costume
assistant and corset-maker for different theatres and opera
houses in Austria, Germany and Slovenia. She currently
works for the Artothek des Bundes (State Collection of
Modern Art) and studies history of art. She is infatuated with
photography, fashion, poetry, music, painting, belly dancing,
architecture, good food (preferably organic) and wine. She
loves animals but doesn't want to keep them. She is also
highly against enviromental pollution of any kind. She adores
Francesca Woodman and Lisette Model and can't resist
anything sweet.
streets of Adelaide, South Australia. He completed a double
degree in journalism and sociology in his native Australia
which he believes has given him the basic tenets of the
trade. Other experiences include writing for youth
newspaper, On Dit, and working as a presenter on Radio
Adelaide. He thought it wise to venture out into the world and
travel before trying to articulate his thoughts on it. That
decision was followed by various sightings of him in South
America and various cities in Europe. He now resides in
Vienna where he is pursuing his ambition to be a writer. With
a passion for writing, reading and a fascination for the
interaction of societies and their dwellers, his goal is to one
day express whatever it is which gives him that
uncomfortable indigestion when thinking of such things. He
now proudly writes for Ether and works for street magazine
Die Bunte Zeitung.
he told a huge pack of lies on his application to become a
child-minder in an after school club for a year. He now works
as a business English teacher and likes nothing better than
explaining the difference between the present perfect and
past simple for the umpteenth time. Apart from this he goes
climbing in his spare-time, is an avid couchsurfer and also
likes to spend a lot of time having obscenities bellowed at
him whilst biking around Vienna. Despite this, he’s starting
to feel quite at home in Vienna, and may one day be tempted
to eat a Käsewurst… one day. He has no definite plans for
the future, although drifting through a selection of teaching
jobs sounds like an idea.
moved to Vienna - all of this against her will. After spending a
year in Norway, she went back to her transmedial art studies
at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, which she'll
hopefully be done with soon. Apart from Ether, she is also a
regular contributor to Canadian magazine Inscribed, which
she does music-inspired comics for. She has had the
weirdest jobs in her student career - but haven't we all? - and
spends way too much time being asocial, piling up books on
her floor, staring at maps, taking her camera out for walks
and going to very dirty rock'n'roll gigs.
Vancouver. She grew up a scant 4 ½ hours over the
mountains from said city, which is practically a suburb in
Canadian terms. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in
Communications and Photography at Concordia University
in Montreal, where she worked in a custom publishing
house, hosted a weekly radio show, played in an indie rock
band and did freelance music photography before jumping
ship to Vienna in October 2008. She attends all kinds of
shows all over town, but you can usually find her at Fluc.
She’s tired of the ‘why did you move to Austria?’ question, but
can now answer it in shaky German with reasons of a
magical weekend, educational goals involving learning
deutsch, lederhosen and an Irish passport. Yet somehow,
deep down, it all goes back to Julie Andrews.
from a 650-soul village in rural Burgenland just to realise
that her degree in English Linguistics was not the ultimate
goal in respect to her original plan of lifelong learning and
studying. That’s why, after giving artistic photography a
chance, she ended up following her passion for H2O in all
its facets to study freshwater ecology. Now, whenever she is
not wading through waist-deep riverine waters, she explores
Vienna by bike, its surroundings on foot, sets the balls for
her team mates on the volleyball court, sometimes parties
hard, sometimes not at all, and - no pain, no gain -
translates websites, scripts and theatre plays, or interviews
film stars for Vienna’s International Film Festival (yes, the
latter is the worst pain of all).
accept this fact as he spent his youth living and
travelling across the marvels of Africa and Croatia. He
eventually found himself in Vienna in 1999. He also had a
wacky 4 year stint in Lincoln (England) where he obtained
his BA in Illustration because he likes to draw awesome
things like robots, animals, flowers and people, and thought
that maybe he could make a career out of it. He has acquired
a potpourri of random work experiences including creating
and writing for websites, hosting exhibitions, wearing bear
costumes to promote toilet paper, freelance graphic design
and random art-related gigs. He now busies himself with
rock'n'roll, psychology, obsessive nutella eating, travelling,
snowboarding, a perhaps unhealthy devotion to the films of
Arnold Schwarzenegger and random acts of creativity while
he waits for his masters degree at the University of Applied
Arts to start in October! www.amateurillustrator.com
Spéos Photographic Institute in Paris, France in 2002.
Working mainly with black and white traditional film and
developing her own pictures, she gradually moved towards
the digital medium and now uses it as her principal means
of creative expression. Her work is all about emotional
expression drawing on the traditions of reportage and
portraiture in her distinctive artistic style, depicting her
subjects in their natural environment. She has lived in
Vienna since 2004. www.claire-morgan.com
written.. She graduated with a degree in English Language
several years ago and has worked as the editor of a monthly
construction magazine and two bi-monthly business
magazines. She recently attempted to produce her own
music/lifestyle magazine in Manchester, with mixed results
(it never got off the ground but she had a damn good time
trying!). She currently works in IT but there will always be a
part of her that itches to correct bad spelling...
his heart. He graduated from the University of California
Santa Barbara with a dual major in Film Studies and Cultural
Anthropology. While at university he helped found a film
society that eventually had over 600 paying members. Soon
after leaving university, he set out for Europe and spent the
next years traveling around the continent and finally ended up
in Barcelona, Spain where he met his Austrian wife. Here he
developed his skills as an English language trainer and
obtained his CELTA teaching certificate. This eventually led
him to Vienna in 2006 where he works as a business
English trainer and writer. When he is not teaching, he
devours popular culture; including film, music, literature, and
technology.
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