Österreichisches Wörterbuch
It replaced the old "Regeln für die deutsche Rechtschreibung nebst Wörterbuch", a standard work for the German orthography that dated back to pre-World War I times (1879 and 1902), although during Austria's Nazi years 1938-1945, the German Duden works were "gleichgeschaltet", i.e. supplanted the 1902 Austrian rulebook.
The first edition had 276 pages and around 20,000 entries and was designed for use in the Austrian educational system and is today considered, after decades of intense criticism by academic Germanists, a "courageous sociolinguistic-political project.
The authors of this edition were the linguists Otto Back, Erich Benedikt, Karl Blüml, Jakob Ebner and Hermann Möcker from the Institute of Austrian Studies (Institut für Österreichkunde), as well as the dialectologists Maria Hornung, professor Heinz Dieter Pohl from the University of Klagenfurt and emeritus professor Herbert Tatzreiter from the University of Vienna.
From the colloquial vocabulary new terms were added such as "Altenbetreuer" (geriatric nurse), "anzipfen" (to get fed up), "ablösefrei" (without transfer fee), „Audiobook“, „Afro-Look“ und „Alkopops“ (soft drink with liquor).
Still included are some typical dialect terms, that continue to be used in the written language, such as the Carinthian "Strankerl" (common beans) or the word "Zöger" or "Zeger" for a wicker basket.
Other typically Austrian words in the dictionary are for example: Dulliähstimmung" (drunkenness), "Greißler" (grocery shop), "Gwirkst" (complicated situation), "Jausengegner" (easy opponent in sports), "Käsekrainer" (a cheese-filled Carniolan sausage), "klass" (terrific), "Outwachler" (a linesman), "Pfusch" (unreported employment), "pipifein" (fine), "Roadpricing", "Stockerlplatz" (a medal rank in sports), "Szenebeisl" (a hip nightclub), "tschechern" (to booze), "zach" (chewy, tough) and "zerknautschen" (to crumple).
In post-World War II Austria the German Duden never had any legal authority, although informally it is also widely in use as a work of reference.
