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In Bnei Brak, he led Asra Kadisha, the Committee for the Preservation of Gravesites, and was involved in protests against excavations at sites including the Tomb of Maimonides in Tiberias in 1956 and along Israel's Highway 6. 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After a loan spell at Vorwärts Steyr, he joined Grazer AK in 1996 before moving to Arsenal in the Premier League, where he was understudy to David Seaman.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Alex_Manninger.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Manninger" }, { "name": "Oleg Maisenberg Ukrainian-born Austrian pianist dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/oleg-maisenberg", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-04-16", "reported_date": "2026-04-16", "published_at": "2026-04-16T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Austria", "Ukraine" ], "description": "Oleg Maisenberg, a Ukrainian-born Austrian pianist, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Odessa, then in the Ukrainian SSR, he received his first piano lessons from his mother at age five. He studied at the Central Music School in Kishinev and the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Alexander Jocheles. In 1967, he won second prize at the International Schubert Competition in Vienna and first prize in the competition Music of the Twentieth Century. He emigrated to Vienna in 1981 and later appeared with major orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Maisenberg" }, { "name": "Ilse von Alpenheim Austrian pianist dead at age 99", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ilse-von-alpenheim", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-04-11", "reported_date": "2026-04-11", "published_at": "2026-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Austria" ], "description": "Ilse von Alpenheim, an Austrian pianist, died on April 11, 2026, at the age of 99. Born in Innsbruck, she was trained by her mother, a piano teacher, and made her first public appearance as a soloist at age nine in Joseph Haydn's Piano Concerto Hob. XVIII,11. She later studied with Winfried Wolf in Kitzbühel and with Franz Ledwinka at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1951, she moved to Switzerland. 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He was a deputy to the National Council from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 to 2002, and served as Austrian minister of justice from 1983 to 1987.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Ofner" }, { "name": "Adolf Scherwitzl Austrian Olympic biathlete dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/adolf-scherwitzl", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-04-07", "reported_date": "2026-04-07", "published_at": "2026-04-07T00:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "other" ], "nationality": [ "Austria" ], "description": "Adolf Scherwitzl, an Austrian Olympic biathlete, died on April 7, 2026.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Scherwitzl" }, { "name": "Christian Schwarz-Schilling Austrian-born German politician, minister of post and telecommunications and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina dead at age 95", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/christian-schwarz-schilling", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 95, "death_date": "2026-04-06", "reported_date": "2026-04-06", "published_at": "2026-04-06T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Austria", "Germany" ], "description": "Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-born German politician and former minister of post and telecommunications and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, died on April 6, 2026. 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He was the author of The Land at the End of the World and received the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. 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