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Film and TV locations in Austria

84 places to shoot in Austria: 26 theatres, arenas and venues, 15 offices, schools and public buildings, 7 bars, restaurants and shops and 36 more. 42 have a photo and 27 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.

What Austria pays back

Austria runs the FISA+ (Filmstandort Austria), worth Up to 30% (35% with Green Bonus) as a cash rebate. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 21 companies we list in Austria.

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Theatres, arenas and venues in Austria 26

Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 26 on their own page.

Amalienbad, Vienna
Photo: Peter Gluchi (CC0), Wikimedia Commons

Amalienbad

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

Art Deco public indoor swimming pool built in the 1920s in Favoriten, with a 33.3 by 12.5 metre sports pool, a historic diving platform up to 10 metres, a children's pool and separate men's and women's sauna areas.

Indoor sports pool, diving platform, children's pool, men's and women's sauna areas, showers and changing rooms

Bergisel Ski Jump, Tyrol
Photo: Daniel Wagner at de.wikipedia (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

Bergisel Ski Jump

Tyrol

Theatre, arena & venue

Zaha Hadid's 2002 ski jump tower on Innsbruck's Bergisel hill, combining a competition in-run and judging tower with a public viewing platform and cafe over the city.

Capacity: 120 · Bergisel Sky restaurant/bar has 360-degree glazing and holds a maximum of 120 people. The SeminarRaum seats up to 80 people and has a 10 m2 whiteboard...

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna
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Wiener Stadthalle

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

Vienna's largest multi-purpose arena, opened in 1958, with several halls used for concerts, sport and exhibitions under a distinctive folded roof.

Capacity: 16000 · Halle D: up to 16,000 capacity (10,741 seated), interior space 4,968 m2, foyer 2,120 m2, interior height 15.4 m, stage up to 476 m2 (adjustable height...

Theatre, arena & venue

Bregenz Festival House

Vorarlberg

Theatre, arena & venue

A lakeside festival hall on Lake Constance, home of the Bregenz Festival's floating stage and indoor auditorium, backed by mountain views.

Seen in: James Bond: Quantum of Solace

Theatre, arena & venue

Brigittenauer Bad

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

A municipal indoor and outdoor swimming complex in Vienna's Brigittenau district, with plain functional architecture, large glazed halls and outdoor lawns for everyday, present-day scenes.

Indoor multipurpose pool, teaching pool and heated pool with sauna area; outdoor non-swimmer pool, sunbathing lawns and water playground

Theatre, arena & venue

Casino Wien

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

A casino across four floors of the Baroque Palais Esterhazy on Vienna's Kaerntner Strasse, with a ground-floor jackpot hall, roulette, blackjack and baccarat tables, a bar and a restaurant.

Theatre, arena & venue

Depot (Kunst und Diskussion)

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

An art and discussion venue on Breite Gasse in Vienna's Neubau district, with a 36 square metre cafe and a 75 square metre function room seating around 100, plus a small outdoor terrace.

Capacity: 100

Theatre, arena & venue

Foundation Gänsehäufel

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

Former tennis clubhouse on a wooded island in the Old Danube, now run as an independent art, production and event space with its own artist residency.

65 sqm interior, 50 sqm outdoor area, electricity and water connections, WC

Theatre, arena & venue

Halle E+G, MuseumsQuartier

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

Two multipurpose halls in the former imperial stables at Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, with a foyer, colonnaded entrance and backstage production offices, used for concerts, exhibitions and events.

Ground-level access, backstage dressing rooms and production offices, freight and passenger lift, high-voltage power

Theatre, arena & venue

Kunstlerhaus Wien

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

An 1868 exhibition and social hall at Vienna's Karlsplatz, built in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa for the country's largest artists' association, fully renovated with modern event technology.

Theatre, arena & venue

Stadtkino im Kunstlerhaus

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

An arthouse cinema built in 1947 inside Vienna's Kunstlerhaus building on Akademiestrasse, with a decorated period interior, a foyer restaurant and its own festival programme.

Theatre, arena & venue

Vienna State Opera

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

An 1869 opera house on the Ringstrasse with a gilded auditorium, grand staircase and backstage areas that host around 350 performances a season.

Theatre, arena & venue

Wiener Riesenrad (Prater)

Vienna

Theatre, arena & venue

A 1897 giant Ferris wheel and adjoining amusement park on the edge of the Prater, with vintage gondola cabins and a fairground of rides, food stalls and an events hall.

Seen in: The Third Man (1949)

Offices, schools and public buildings in Austria 15

Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 15 on their own page.

Börsensäle, Vienna Stock Exchange, Vienna
Photo: Peter Gugerell (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

Börsensäle, Vienna Stock Exchange

Vienna

Office, school & public building

Three bookable 19th century ballrooms on the upper floor of the former Vienna Stock Exchange building, fitted with a passenger lift and a freight lift, not normally open to the public.

Three ballrooms, passenger and freight lift, lighting control, kitchen access, office and conference rooms

University of Vienna Main Building, Vienna
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons

University of Vienna Main Building

Vienna

Office, school & public building

Historicist university building of 1884 on the Ringstrasse, with an arcaded courtyard of scholars' monuments, a grand ceremonial hall and lecture theatres.

Vienna City Hall (Rathaus), Vienna
Photo: Gugerell (CC0), Wikimedia Commons

Vienna City Hall (Rathaus)

Vienna

Office, school & public building

Neo-Gothic seat of Vienna's city government from 1883, with a vaulted arcaded courtyard, ceremonial halls and a square in front used for open-air events and markets.

wolke19 at Ares Tower, Vienna
Photo: Robert F. Tobler (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons

wolke19 at Ares Tower

Vienna

Office, school & public building

Event and conference venue on the 19th to 21st floors of the Ares Tower office high-rise in Donau City, with a 220 square metre Sky Hall and a rooftop Sky Lobby with terrace and bar.

Two meeting rooms, Sky Hall (220 sqm), Sky Lobby with terrace and bar, freight and passenger lift, high-voltage power

Office, school & public building

Ernst Fuchs Museum (Otto Wagner Villa)

Vienna

Office, school & public building

A museum in Otto Wagner's 1888 Villa I in Vienna's Penzing district, combining the architect's original interiors with large-format paintings by Ernst Fuchs and a garden fountain pavilion.

Office, school & public building

Palais Niederoesterreich

Vienna

Office, school & public building

A former seat of the Lower Austrian Estates on Herrengasse in central Vienna, dating back to the 16th century, now an event venue with historic rooms such as the Landtagssaal and Rittersaal.

Office, school & public building

State Hall of the Austrian National Library

Vienna

Office, school & public building

A Baroque hall built between 1723 and 1726 for Emperor Charles VI's court library, now the ceremonial state hall of the Austrian National Library on Josefsplatz.

Office, school & public building

weXelerate

Vienna

Office, school & public building

An office, event and innovation hub of about 9,000 square metres across four floors in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, with more than 20 individual offices and an on-site garage.

About 9,000 sqm across four floors, more than 20 offices, on-site garage

Office, school & public building

WU Vienna Library and Learning Center

Vienna

Office, school & public building

The library building of Vienna's business university campus, a deconstructivist design by Zaha Hadid with sweeping concrete forms and glass atria.

Bars, restaurants and shops in Austria 7

Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.

Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
Photo: Peter Gugerell (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

Karmelitermarkt

Vienna

Bar, restaurant & shop

Working food market in Leopoldstadt dating to 1910, with daily stalls and about 60 farmers' market stands on Fridays and Saturdays, offering both indoor and outdoor filming space.

Bar, restaurant & shop

Viktor-Adler-Markt

Vienna

Bar, restaurant & shop

A neighbourhood market between Favoritenstrasse and Senefeldergasse in Vienna's Favoriten district, founded in 1877 and expanded in 1910, with a farmers' market section on Leibnizgasse.

Film studios and backlots in Austria 6

Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.

Studio & backlot

AVbaby Motion Pictures Studio

Styria

Studio & backlot

A film, photo and virtual production studio with a sound recording room and coworking space in Graz, described by its operator as the largest such facility in Styria.

Film, photo and virtual production studio space with a sound recording studio, equipment rental and coworking space; exact stage dimensions are not...

Studio & backlot

GrandurFilmStudio

Carinthia

Studio & backlot

A small 48 square metre photo and video studio with changeable backdrops in Carinthia, offering studio rental and equipment for local film and commercial production.

48 m2 studio (8.0 x 6.0 m), 5.5 m ceiling, changeable white, black, grey and chroma-key blue backdrops, Kino Flo lighting adjustable 2900-5500K, 220V...

Studio & backlot

HQ7 Studios

Vienna

Studio & backlot

Two sound stages of 2,000 and 1,000 square metres with 12.5 metre ceilings at HQ7 Studios in Vienna-Simmering, built for international film and TV production including virtual production.

Stage 1: 2,000 m2, 12.5 m height, full grid 72 x 28 m; Stage 2: 1,000 m2, 12.5 m height, full grid 35 x 28 m. Both stages are soundproof, have stage...

Studio & backlot

Interspot Film

Vienna

Studio & backlot

Four studios from 140 to 500 square metres at Interspot Film in Vienna's Liesing district, with a large control room and full production crew available on request.

Four studios with usable areas from 140 to 500 m2, a large control room, complete production staff on request, and additional equipment rental.

Studio & backlot

Vienna Synchron Stage

Vienna

Studio & backlot

A 540 square metre scoring stage with up to 12 metre ceilings on the former Rosenhugel studio site in Vienna, built for orchestral film and game score recording.

Capacity: 130 · Stage A: 540 m2, 10.5 to 12 m ceiling height, capacity for orchestras of up to 130 musicians, with a published noise floor of 16 dB(A); plus Stage B...

Hotels and interiors in Austria 5

Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. Hotels and interiors across Europe.

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Imperial Riding School Vienna, Autograph Collection

Vienna

Hotel & interiors

A hotel in the former Imperial Spanish Riding School building in Vienna's Landstrasse district, with guest rooms overlooking either a sculpture garden or the nearby Russian Orthodox church.

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Kaiserhof Wien

Vienna

Hotel & interiors

A 4-star hotel on a quiet side street in Vienna's Wieden district, opened in 1896, with turn-of-the-century interiors and room categories running from Classic to newly renovated Superior rooms.

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Sacher Vienna

Vienna

Hotel & interiors

Grand 1876 hotel opposite the State Opera, with red-panelled parlours, a chandeliered dining room and the original Sachertorte kitchen.

Capacity: 150 · The Marble Hall has a marble floor, marble-clad walls and chandeliers, and can be divided into two rooms with a mirrored wall. Capacity: cocktail 150,...

Hotel & interiors

Hotel Schani Wien Hauptbahnhof

Vienna

Hotel & interiors

Independent 135-room hotel opened in 2015 next to Vienna's main railway station, with a courtyard garden, rooftop space, co-working area and seminar rooms across six floors.

Courtyard garden, rooftop space, co-working area, seminar and conference rooms, loading elevator, parking

Hotel & interiors

Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof Vienna

Vienna

Hotel & interiors

A listed 1913 building on Herrengasse in central Vienna, originally built as a school, now a hotel with 196 rooms, a bar, event spaces and penthouse suites overlooking the rooftops.

Capacity: 196

Industrial and derelict locations in Austria 4

Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. Industrial and derelict locations across Europe.

Erzberg, Styria
Photo: Gerald Senarclens de Grancy (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons

Erzberg

Styria

Industrial & derelict

Open-pit iron ore mine near Eisenerz with terraced orange slopes over 700 metres high, a tourist park offering truck and cable tours through the workings, and host to the annual Erzbergrodeo enduro race.

The Bohrerschmiede event space accommodates up to 100 people (own site).

Gasometer Vienna, Vienna
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons

Gasometer Vienna

Vienna

Industrial & derelict

Four former 19th-century gasholders in Vienna's Simmering district, rebuilt with glass domes into apartments, offices, a shopping mall, cinema and event hall around their original brick shells.

Seen in: The Living Daylights (1987)

Tower A commercial space available from 30 sqm, from EUR 16 per sqm net; concert hall capacity up to 4,200 visitors with more than 100 events a year;...

Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Upper Austria
Photo: Walter Luttenberger (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr

Upper Austria

Industrial & derelict

Museum of industrial and labour history housed in a former weapons and bicycle factory hall in Steyr's Wehrgraben quarter, with original machine-hall interiors.

Rooms: Large Hall 380 sqm, Small Hall 140 sqm, Seminar Room 1 80 sqm, Seminar Room 2 60 sqm, Gallery 270 sqm; evening surcharge after 20:00 of EUR 65...

Tabakfabrik Linz, Upper Austria
Photo: Stadt Linz / Screenshot: Christoph Waghubinger (Lewenstein) (CC BY 3.0), Wikimedia Commons

Tabakfabrik Linz

Upper Austria

Industrial & derelict

A converted 1935 Bauhaus-style tobacco factory in Linz, now a creative and start-up quarter with exhibition halls, event spaces and a rooftop terrace across the Danube from the old town.

About 2,500 m2 of event space across multiple halls and outdoor areas, wheelchair accessible. Technical equipment can be customised and an on-site...

Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Austria 4

Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. Hospitals, prisons and institutions across Europe.

Sanatorium Purkersdorf, Lower Austria
Photo: derivative work: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez (talk) Sanatoriumpurkersdorf1.JPG: Roman Klementschitz, Wien (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons

Sanatorium Purkersdorf

Lower Austria

Hospital, prison & institution

An early modernist sanatorium building from 1905 on the edge of the Vienna Woods, with a clean white geometric facade, now used for events.

Hospital, prison & institution

House 4, Semmelweis Clinic Vienna

Vienna

Hospital, prison & institution

A listed former supply wing of the closed Semmelweis maternity clinic in Vienna's Waehring district, now in interim cultural use with studios, event space, cellars and an untouched attic.

Hospital, prison & institution

Kirche am Steinhof (Klinik Penzing)

Vienna

Hospital, prison & institution

Otto Wagner's Art Nouveau hospital church of 1907 crowning a hillside campus of pavilion wards built for the former Lower Austrian asylum, now Vienna's Klinik Penzing.

Transport and infrastructure in Austria 3

Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. Transport and infrastructure across Europe.

Semmering Railway, Lower Austria
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons

Semmering Railway

Lower Austria

Transport & infrastructure

The world's first standard-gauge mountain railway, opened in 1854, still an operating OBB main line with sixteen tunnels and stone viaducts climbing the Semmering pass.

Transport & infrastructure

Flughafen Wien Aspern (Seestadt)

Vienna

Transport & infrastructure

The site of Vienna's historic Aspern airfield, now redeveloped as the Seestadt district, retaining some early aviation-era structures amid new urban blocks.

Modern architecture in Austria 3

Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.

Hangar-7, Salzburg
Photo: Herbert Ruhdorfer (CC BY 3.0 at), Wikimedia Commons

Hangar-7

Salzburg

Modern architecture

Curved glass and steel aviation hangar at Salzburg Airport housing the Flying Bulls historic aircraft collection, a restaurant and event spaces beneath its open-span dome roof.

Kunsthaus Graz, Styria
Photo: Marion Schneider & Christoph Aistleitner (CC BY-SA 2.5), Wikimedia Commons

Kunsthaus Graz

Styria

Modern architecture

Biomorphic blue-panelled contemporary art museum of 2003 on the Mur riverbank, its bulging acrylic shell fitted with roof-top nozzle skylights beside Graz's baroque old town.

Rentable spaces named on site are Space04 (meeting/presentation room) and Needle (elevated glass observation platform) (own site).

Modern architecture

wolke21 at Saturn Tower

Vienna

Modern architecture

A penthouse event space atop the Saturn Tower in Vienna's Donau City, with a 160 square metre sky lobby, a 50 square metre bar, a large foyer and a 160 square metre terrace with a near 360 degree view.

160 sqm sky lobby, 50 sqm bar area, 160 sqm terrace

Palaces and landmarks in Austria 3

Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.

Villages and countryside in Austria 2

Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. Villages and countryside across Europe.

Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Upper Austria
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons

Hallstatt

Salzkammergut, Upper Austria

Village & countryside

Lakeside Alpine village of stacked wooden and stucco houses between the Hallstatter See and a steep mountainside, reachable by funicular to the salt mine above.

Houses and apartments in Austria 2

Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.

House & apartment

Thuryhof

Vienna

House & apartment

1920s municipal housing block in Alsergrund built over a former brickyard, with fortress-like courtyards, arcades and round-arched loggias, listed as a protected historic building.

Cities and skylines in Austria 1

Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.

Historic towns and streets in Austria 1

Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.

Mountains and wilderness in Austria 1

Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.

Forests and lakes in Austria 1

Woodland, forests, lakes and rivers, with the access tracks and permits that shooting in them needs. Forests and lakes across Europe.

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