Gymnasium Wasagasse

Known as one of the most demanding schools in Austria, the Wasagymnasium offers a traditional humanistic education with a focus on classical languages as well as a focus on modern languages. Furthermore, the school also offers an education with an emphasis on science.

Its students regularly participate in different competitions, most notable the various language competitions in which the students of the Wasagymnasium were able to achieve many awards in the past few years. The University of Vienna cooperates with the Wasagymnasium and offers student teacher internships for its university students.[2][3] Several teachers from the Wasagymnasium also teach at the University of Vienna.

The school building of the Wasagymnasium is also used by the educational centre for Chinese in Vienna.[4] The Wasagymnasium has two gyms, one in the main school building and another bigger gym in a different building, located at Wasagasse 20, 1090 Vienna.

Since 2007, the Wasagymnasium is also the location of the Nox Latina,[5] the long night of Latin, organised together with two other Viennese secondary schools and the University of Vienna.

• Andre Asriel (composer)
• Muhammad Asad † (journalist, diplomat, Islamic scholar, political theorist)
• Hans Gál † (composer)
• Fritz Stiedry † (conductor)
• Max Deutsch † (composer, conductor, teacher)
• Wilhelm Grosz † (composer, conductor)
• Heinz Politzer † (writer, literary critic)
• Felix Braun † (author, poet)
• Andrea Maria Dusl (film director, author)
• Georg Drozdowski † (author, journalist, translator, actor)
• Erich Fried † (poet, translator)
• Ernest Gold † (composer, Academy Award winner)
• Peter Hammerschlag † (poet, author, cabaret artist)
• Peter Nagy (TV director)
• Fritz Kalmar † (author)
• Gustav Glück † (art historian)
• Fritz Saxl † (art historian)
• Robert Eisler † (art historian)
• Robert Haas (calligrapher) †
• Ernst Décsey † (author, music critic)
• Eva-Maria Höhle (art historian)
• Emil Kaufmann † (art & architecture historian)
• Erich Kleiber † (conductor)
• Harry Seidler † (architect)
• Otto Leichter † (journalist, author)
• Felix Salten † (author)
• Heinrich Eduard Jacob † (journalist, author)
• Götz Spielmann (film director, script writer, Academy Award nominee)
• Marcel Prawy † ( dramaturg, opera connoisseur, opera critic)
• Heinrich Reif-Gintl † (opera and theatre manager, director of the Vienna State Opera)
• Friedrich Torberg † (author, journalist)
• Diego Viga † (physician, author)
• Stefan Zweig † (author)
• Paul Manelski † (musician)

• Karl Landsteiner † (biologist, physician, Nobel laureate)
• Richard Wettstein † (botanist)
• Felix Ehrenhaft † (physicist)
• Hans Benndorf † (physicist)
• Philipp Frank † (physicist, mathematician, philosopher)
• Eduard Helly † (mathematician)
• Erwin Chargaff † (biochemist)
• Julius Tandler † (physician, politician)
• Hermann von Schrötter † (physician, physiologist)
• Gerald Holton (Research Professor at Harvard University)
• Norbert Leser (jurist, political scientist and social philosopher)
• Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten † (meteorologist, geophysicist)
• Ernst Kurth † (music theorist)
• Fritz Wittels † (psychoanalyst)
• Erich Manelski † (Chemist)

• Helmut Krätzl (Auxiliary Bishop of Vienna)
• Ignaz Maybaum † (Jewish theologian)
• Emil Zsigmondy † (physician, mountaineer)
• Ari Rath (journalist, publicist, writer)
• Rainer Nowak (journalist, editor of Die Presse[6])
• Henry Strakosch † (banker, businessman)
• Vincenz Hruby † (Czech chess master)
• Herbert Otto "Otti" Roth † (socialist, labourer, librarian and historian)
• Walter Breisky † (politician, former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and Chancellor of Austria)