This identity goes far beyond the clich???s of Viennese caf???s, Baroque palaces, waltzes and classical music to encompass the radicalism of writers like Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka and Elfriede Jelinek, and artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Hermann Nitsch and Egon Schiele, not to mention the architects and philosophers who have engendered major influences on the world