NEWS

June 2011

HELLO, THIS IS DENNIS!!
Yet another young star is trapped in the Third Man Museum. This time, Dennis Gastmann running the "With 80,000 questions around the world" show for German Television. Details on the video:

March 2011

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January 2011

To mark the 60th anniversary of "The Third Man", the Schauspielhaus theatre in Vienna produced a modern play by Jörg Albrecht, wherein the stars of the film appear as lifesize figures, which are said to be on display in the Third Man Museum. Now the play was taken off the program and the story became true: The figures go to the Third Man Museum!
On their way through the inner city of Vienna, they visited some film locations. Have a look:

September 2010

On September 15, the Third Man Museum celebrated its 5th anniversary with visitors, friends and 'Lime cocktail'!!!

July 2010

As twelve year old boy Egon Egger played the zither and in 1951 attracted the attention of Anton Karas, who bought him a new instrument and financed his zither studies in Vienna. Mr. Egger gave the museum all his Karas memorabilia, most precious the written dedication by Karas with the first tunes of "Hary-Laim" (sic!)

June 2010

The Croatian artist Oja Kodar was Orson Welles' partner in life and arts for the last 24 years of his life. Together they created "F for Fake" and many other productions. We visited her in Croatia and she gave us a wonderful interview about Orson and "The Third Man" which will be very soon on screen in our museum.
Just recently Oja Kodar accomplished a monument of Orson Welles. We photographed her next to its model:

March 2010

Marking the 60th anniversary of the Austrian film premiere Caroline Bourget, daughter of Graham Greene, and Angela Allen, script girl on "The Third Man" visited the Third Man Museum.

November '09

Songwriter and singer Bela B., drummer of the German band 'Die Ärzte', used his free time between his solo concerts in Vienna to trace Harry Lime. Bela was very much interested in the 'dark' sides of Vienna's history...

October '09

Dr. Alberto G. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, (2nd from left) visited the Third Man Museum, accompanied by Brigitte Timmermann (3rd from left) and the Ambassador of the Philippines (right). His profound knowledge about 'The Third Man' and post-war Vienna was just impressing!

September 2nd, 2009

The world premiere of "The Third Man" was in London September 2nd, 1949. For the film's 60th anniversary the Austrian Post created a special issue stamp, which was presented to the philatelists in the Third Man Museum.
Picture to the left: Gerhard Strassgschwandtner, Erich Haas (Austrian Post), Susanne Reichard (head of the district Vienna-Wieden) and Josef Gottschall (spokesman Vienna Sewerage).
Picture to the right: Special post office for the first day cover at the Third Man Museum.

August 31st, 2009

José Feliciano came to Vienna to shoot the video for his new coverversion of the Third Man Theme. Right after filming in the sewers José and his family visited the Third Man Museum - he still wearing the American film uniform. He was delighted to hold Anton Karas' original film zither in his hands.

August 1st, 2009

Peggy Grelat-Dupont, dancer of the renown Maguy Marin Compagnie, passed by the Third Man Museum between her appearances at the MuseumsQuartier Wien. Since her early childhood she admires Orson Welles - as a proof his tattooed autograph can be seen on Peggy's leg!

July '09

"Grate" visitors: Stefano Bottoni, director of Ferrara's Manhole Cover Museum and Tommaso La Rocca of the University of Ferrara inspected our museum's original Viennese sewer grate.
More about Ferrara's Manhole Museum (which really exists!!): www.manholemuseum.it

June '09

The latest edition of the Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Vienna recommends the Third Man Museum as one of the Top 10 Unusual Museums in Vienna!
This and other media appearances of the Third Man Museum can be read in our Press Review.

January '09

Hunting for Third Man exhibits in Japan!
Roland Domenig was our "Third Man in Tokyo" in 2008. Thanks to him, we could acquire wonderful Japanese articles.

October 2008

The Vienna Sewer Authority provides the Third Man Museum with an original sewer grate! See here pictures from the "heaven of sewer grates" at the stockyard of the Sewer Authority.

At the Third Man Museum you can find out which tricks were played with the sewer grate in Harry Lime's chase scene and who stretched his fingers through the grate in place of Orson Welles...

Sewer grates as far as the eye can reach. Josef Gottschall of the Vienna Sewer Authority helps Gerhard to find an appropriate grate.

August 2008

ORSON WELLES VISITS THE THIRD MAN MUSEUM!
Christian McKay plays Orson Welles in the forthcoming Richard Linklater film "Me and Orson Welles". Christian McKay was here together with his wife Emily - and now we are certain: Harry Lime is alive!

Website of the film: www.meandorsonwellesthemovie.com

May 2008

Bill Billet, president and founder of the USFA Veterans Association and his wife Linda visited our museum. They helped us setting up our First Lieutenant's uniform the proper way and donated the necessary pins and patches to our project. Thank you, Bill !!

April 2008

Our short movie 'Third Man Tour ' is now on YouTube!
Script, camera, editing and leading roles: Karin Hoefler and Gerhard Strassgschwandtner.
Turn on your speakers and have fun!

March 2008

English filmmaker Peter Whitehead shoots sequences of his new film on location in the Third Man Museum:

Peter Whitehead and his discovery Sophie Strohmeier.

Turn of the year 2007/2008

The extended rooms with the new exhibition "Harry Lime's Vienna: Occupied Vienna 1945-55" are open! Backed by the quotes of the movie, the new rooms show a vast array of original documents of the time and give an unusual approach to contemporary history.

Creating the character of Harry Lime, Graham Greene was very much inspired by his friend and superior at the British Intelligence Service Harold Kim Philby. Philby learned about the Viennese sewers when he was in Vienna during the Austrian Civil War in 1934. Thus it appears that Graham Greene collected information already from the time before the war. Together with world famous double agent Kim Philby pre-war Vienna is another new subject of the exhibition:

August 2007

Visiting grandpa: Werner Chudik, the grandson of Anton Karas, celebrated his birthday in the Third Man Museum. Here with his familiy in the 'Anton Karas Room':

July 2007

Visited the Third Man Museum for the sixth (!) time:
John Murphy from Dublin is our most frequent visitor! He knows the museum from its opening in September 2005. On his last trip to Vienna he passed by again to check out new exhibits.

June 2007

Start of the cooperation "3rd Man Tour" with the following four stations: An exciting city walk to most of the shooting locations, a guided tour down to the Viennese sewers, the original English version of the movie at the cinema and a visit in the Third Man Museum.
After visiting one of the stations visitors benefit of reduced prices at any other station. More: www.thirdmantour.at

Here some pictures of the press conference on June 15th announcing the start of the "3rd Man Tour":

Media representatives and cooperation partners (from left to right): Kurt Schramek (Burgkino Cinema), Ulli Sima (Vienna City Councillor for Environmental Matters), Barbara Timmermann (Vienna Walks+Talks) and Gerhard Strassgschwandtner (Third Man Museum)

March 2007

Opera star Anna Netrebko visited the Third Man Museum! Spontaneously she put on a 'third man hat' when strolling through the exhibition. Which photo motive could be better for the Russian-Austrian Soprano than the Russian-Austrian petrol pump?

This petrol pump was in use of the petrol stations network of the Soviet mineral oil administration in Austria (OROP) during the Allied occupation after World War II.

June/July 2006

Anton Karas would have celebrated his 100th birthday on July 7th this year! For his anniversary, the Third Man Museum organised together with the artists' group "Half of the Truth" (Sebastian Weissenbacher, Götz Bury, Martin Praska and Matthias Hammer) the special exhibition "Karas Perfectly Cloned", an Anton Karas bustour as well as the Art&Joy-Dinner "Karasmania". Here are some pictures of the 'Karas clones' at the exhibition's opening on June 20th:

May 2006

Unbelievable: Little Hansel's cap still exists!! Herbert Halbik dedicated his very cap, that he wore as 3 years old boy on the set shouting "Murderer! Murderer!!", to the Third Man Museum. Thank you!

March 2006

We proudly present...

Just recently we got the probably most precious exhibit of our collection: The original zither used by Anton Karas to record the film music. For 20 years it was sleeping in Anton Karas' garden house where he used to practise the zither every day.