The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria

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 the conversation spirals from Van der Bellen and Trump to Indigenous acknowledgements, Viennese dialect, Nazi-sounding German, and whether English is slowly losing its global main character energy.

Also: why business emails are starting to sound like ChatGPT talking to ChatGPT — and why Geheimratsecken should obviously be translated as secret council corners.

this text is written ofc by ChatGPT Episode highlights:

🏄 New feelings unlocked – Crowdsurfing, skydiving, and the strange joy of doing things your survival instinct politely disagrees with.

🗣️ German words English desperately needs – Jacob wants to reverse the language theft and bring words like herumgurken, schnitzen, and Schuss into everyday English.

📺 A TV show pitch nobody asked for – Gabriel and Jacob accidentally create a television concept. Producers, unfortunately, please call.

🌍 Language, politics & identity – From Indigenous acknowledgements in Canada and Australia to the dilution of Viennese dialect and the eternal question: is English losing its sparkle?

🤖 ChatGPT vs. ChatGPT: the office edition – Business emails are getting so obviously AI-written that soon, no humans will be involved. Just bots politely circling back forever.

 

The Wurst Guide – immer montags – immer deppat. 

 

Werbepartner dieser Folge ist der Kultursommer Wien. Go and check out their awesome line-up for this year: https://www.kultursommer.wien

 

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👉Buch https://www.thalia.at/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1070237440

 

🎤 Live Shows

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Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, 

Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

Tickets:

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The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria ist eine Produktion der Werbeagentur The Wurst Agency

und wird gesponsert vom Online-Magazin Vienna Würstelstand — dein Magazin rund um Wien.

Kontakt:

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Feedback, Kooperationen oder Werbepartner-Anfragen welcome.

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 somebody good at sales?

And why does getting a signed contract feel a little bit like winning Olympic gold?

To find out, Gabriel and Jake turns up to Siemens City in Vienna - Jake wearing flip-flops (a decision he immediately is made to regret) - and meet sales expert Anja Rajic and then head to St. Pölten to speak with Fritz Treiber, Senior Sales Manager at Siemens Smart Infrastructure Buildings Area East.

Along the way we discover:

– Why sales is much more about people than products

– The skills that separate good sales people from great ones

– What it's really like starting a career at Siemens and their partners – Why "the sale before the sale" matters

– And why nobody should wear flip-flops to a customer meeting

About the role:
Junior Sales (m/w/d) Fire Safety

📍 St. Pölten

⏰ Full-time (38.5h)

💰 From €3,600 gross/month

🤝 Structured onboarding with an experienced senior colleague

🚀 Opportunity to take over an existing customer portfolio

This episode is part of our ongoing series with SPDL, where we're exploring jobs in Austria that might just be your next career move.

More information about the role:

https://spdl.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/ukwud449nk38vk5wldxe2m8pjphlxbq

Sponsored by Siemens Personaldienstleistungen GmbH.

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, Jacob’s battle with a Viennese parent WhatsApp group, and two very special German words: „Hexenschuss“ and „Geisterfahrer“.

Also known as: witch shot and ghost driver.

 

The Wurst Guide – immer montags – immer deppat. 

 

Werbepartner dieser Folge ist der Kultursommer Wien. Go and check out their awesome line-up for this year: https://www.kultursommer.wien

 

UNTERSTÜTZE UNS:

👉Almose https://steadyhq.com/en/the-wurst-guide-to-living-in-austria/about

👉Buch https://www.thalia.at/shop/home/artikeldetails/A1070237440

 

🎤 Live Shows

Es gibt wieder Live-Podcast-Shows!

Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, 

Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

Tickets:

👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/o/111846959311?_gl=1*rmn209*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTAxNTgyNDUyNy4xNzcyNzM0MTQ4*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzI3MzQxNDckbzEkZzAkdDE3NzI3MzQxNDckajYwJGwwJGgw

 

The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria ist eine Produktion der Werbeagentur The Wurst Agency

und wird gesponsert vom Online-Magazin Vienna Würstelstand — dein Magazin rund um Wien.

Kontakt:

📩 hello@thewurst.agency

📩 twg@viennawurstelstand.com

Feedback, Kooperationen oder Werbepartner-Anfragen welcome.

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 feeling some internationals get here — that comfort, cynicism, bureaucracy, and Viennese subtlety can make you smaller if you’re not careful. But he also asks whether we give the city too much power, and whether the trick is to stop waiting for Vienna’s permission to be fully yourself.

In this episode, Jake talks about:

Why Austrians knock on tables instead of clapping, and why this may be the most emotionally constipated form of praise ever invented

The feeling that Vienna can “shrink” people who are creative, ambitious, foreign, loud, chaotic, or simply too alive before 10am

Whether Vienna feels small because of its size, or because its social circles, institutions, and approval systems can feel tight

The clichés around Vienna being “a village,” “comfortable,” negative, jealous, and resistant to change

Why Viennese cynicism can be funny, useful, and also a wet blanket for people trying to build something new

The Berlin comparison: Berlin gives permission, Vienna makes you earn legitimacy

The danger of living too long in “guest mode” as someone not born here

Why being foreign can be a creative advantage, not a weakness with extra paperwork

Vienna’s history of loud, radical, world-changing people — from Freud, Klimt, Schiele and Loos to Red Vienna and the Vienna Circle

The idea that maybe Vienna doesn’t shrink you — maybe it compresses you

Why the most Viennese thing you can do might be to stop preserving the past and start pissing off the present

How to keep going anyway, like a stubborn donkey with one direction and just enough German to know when someone is underestimating you

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🎤 Live Shows

Es gibt wieder Live-Podcast-Shows!

Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

 

Tickets:

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🏢 Über den Podcast

The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria ist eine Produktion der Werbeagentur The Wurst Agency

und wird gesponsert vom Online-Magazin Vienna Würstelstand — dein Magazin rund um Wien.

Kontakt:

📩 hello@thewurst.agency

📩 twg@viennawurstelstand.com

Feedback, Kooperationen oder Werbepartner-Anfragen welcome.

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 personal tips for the hottest season in Austria: from cool spots you might not know yet, to things you should definitely do while summer lasts. We talk countryside summer escapes, Riegersburg, swimming ponds, Schanigarten culture, Freibad fries, and the small moments that make an Austrian summer special.

´Episode Highlights

☀️ How to Find Joy in an Austrian Summer – Our list for the perfect summer in Austria

🌳 Sommerfrische, Schanigärten & swimming ponds – Our tips for finding more joy in an Austrian summer

🍟 Freibad fries – Why they just hit different in summer

⚽ The World Cup, Trump, and summer heat – The world is losing it, Austria goes to the pool

🥩 Meat sweats – What they are and whether there’s a German translation

🇦🇹 Austria or Australia? – Why the confusion never ends

🦓 “Dad, I want to see the zebras!” – When grown men briefly become children at the zoo

The Wurst Guide – every Monday – always stupid.

 

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Vielen Dank — ohne euch geht’s nicht! ❤️

📚 Unser Buch

Dank euch ist unser Buch
„Schau ma mal – Ein Australier und ein Wiener suchen das Herz von Österreich“

bereits vor dem offiziellen Release durch Vorbestellungen bei Thalia auf der Bestsellerliste gelandet. 🎉

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Falls ihr noch ein Geschenk sucht — unser Buch freut sich über neue Bücherregale. 📚😉

🎤 Live Shows

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Vienna September 24: Level 4, 8020, Graz October 22: Superbude, 1020, Vienna 

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🏢 Über den Podcast

The Wurst Guide to Living in Austria ist eine Produktion der Werbeagentur The Wurst Agency

und wird gesponsert vom Online-Magazin Vienna Würstelstand — dein Magazin rund um Wien.

Kontakt:

📩 hello@thewurst.agency

📩 twg@viennawurstelstand.com

Feedback, Kooperationen oder Werbepartner-Anfragen welcome.

 

DE: 

Die Fußball-WM ist in vollem Gange, Trump macht Trump-Sachen und der Sommer ist in Österreich angekommen. Deshalb schauen wir in der dritten Episode unseres Season Specials auf die Frage: How to find joy in an Austrian summer? Wir teilen persönliche Tipps für die heißeste Jahreszeit in Österreich: von coolen Spots, die man vielleicht noch nicht kennt, bis zu Dingen, die man im Sommer unbedingt machen sollte. Es geht um Sommerfrische am Land, Riegersburg, Badeteiche, Schanigarten-Kultur, Freibadpommes und die kleinen Momente, die einen österreichischen Sommer besonders machen. The Wurst Guide – immer montags – immer deppat.

Highlights der Episode

 ☀️ How to Find Joy in an Austrian Summer – Unsere Liste für den perfekten Sommer in Österreich 

🌳 Sommerfrische, Schanigärten & Badeteiche – Unsere Tipps für mehr Freude im österreichischen Sommer 

🍟 Freibadpommes – Warum sie im Sommer einfach anders schmecken 

⚽ Fußball-WM, Trump und Sommerhitze – Die Welt dreht durch, Österreich geht ins Freibad 

🥩 Meat Sweats – Was das ist und ob es dafür eine deutsche Übersetzung gibt 

🇦🇹 Austria oder Australia? – Warum die Verwechslung einfach nie aufhört

🦓 „Papa, ich will zu den Zebras!“ – Wenn erwachsene Männer im Zoo kurz Kinder werden