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Tim Becker

Stories from Tim Becker

Marathon runners making their way over the Reichsbrücke just meters after the start each on a personal crusade | Photo: Daria Klimova
Marathon: a View from Behind
For 21 km, all legs, arms and arobic fatigue; we ran it our way
Tim Becker
23/05/2011

Looking straight ahead, the bridge that had only moments ago been gray pavement, was now a sea of brightly clothed bodies, bobbing up and down in one teeming mass of humanity.People around us inched ahead, first with a slow walk, and then moving into a slow canter.But just as soon as we started, we stopped sudde

08 fountain at Franziskanerplatz
Home of Hospitality and Viennese Charm
Franziskanerplatz, the hidden beauty in the first district
Tim Becker
01/10/2010

What first led me first to Franziskanerplatz was the Kleines Café, unofficially Vienna’s smallest coffee house. I met some friends there on a rainy night in 1997 and somehow, probably out of necessity to stay dry, we all fit inside the very cozy art deco, retro interior, known to many for a ‘starring’ role in the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy 1995 movie Before Sunrise. Designed by architect Hermann Czech in the mid-1970’s, the Kleines Café is owned by Austrian actor Hanno Poeschl and is known as a hang-out for artists and writers.

07 Café Central on Herrengasse
Leisure, Austrian Style
In the end, quality of life may be about taking your time to do the things that matter
Tim Becker
01/06/2010

Vienna is by now world-famous for its consistently high “Quality of Life” ratings, whether by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the annual Mercer Study or even Monocle magazine (where they smartly ask, “How easy is it to get a drink at 2 in the morning?”). 

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