Editing Innsbruck (section)

== Culture ==
=== Cultural events ===
[[File:Towelday-Innsbruck.jpg|thumb|left|[[Towel Day]] Innsbruck − Towels with a silkscreen print as homage to Douglas Adams. Next to the words 'DON'T PANIC' there are the [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] data from the city Innsbruck where Adams had the idea for the ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.<ref>Erik van Rheenen (2017). [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63473/16-fun-facts-about-hitchhikers-guide-galaxy ''16 Fun Facts About The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''].</ref>]]
Innsbruck is a very popular [[tourist destination]], organizing the following events every year:
* Innsbrucker Tanzsommer
* Bergsilvester (New Year's Eve)
* Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik (Innsbruck Festival of Early Music)
* [[Los Gurkos Short Film Festival]]<ref>slashcam.de http://www.slashcam.de/kalender/A-Los-Gurkos-Short-Film-Festival-2012-760.html "Festival"</ref>
* Christkindlmarkt (Christmas fair)

In 1971, author [[Douglas Adams]] was inspired to write the internationally successful ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series while lying intoxicated in a field in Innsbruck.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gary |first1=Dexter |title=Title Deed: How the Book got its Name |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6250272/Title-Deed-How-the-Book-got-its-Name.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6250272/Title-Deed-How-the-Book-got-its-Name.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |agency=The Telegraph |date=4 October 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> From 2003 onwards each year [[Towel Day]] is celebrated worldwide on 25 May.

=== Sports ===
[[File:BergiselInnsbruck2.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Bergisel]]schanze ski jumping facility]]
Due to its location between high mountains, Innsbruck serves as an ideal place for [[skiing]] in winter, [[ski-jumping]] and [[mountaineering]] in summer. There are several [[ski resorts]] around Innsbruck, with the [[Nordkette]] served by a cable car and additional chair lifts further up. Other ski resorts nearby include [[Axamer Lizum]], [[Muttereralmbahn|Muttereralm]], [[Patscherkofel]], Igls, [[Seefeld, Tirol|Seefeld]], [[Tulfes]] and [[Stubaital|Stubai]] Valley. The glaciated terrain in the latter makes skiing possible even in summer months.

The [[Winter Olympic Games]] were held in Innsbruck twice, first in [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964]], then again in [[1976 Winter Olympics|1976]], when [[Colorado]] voters rejected a bond referendum in 1972 to finance the [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]] games, originally awarded in 1970. The [[1976 Winter Olympics]] were the last games held in the German-speaking [[Alps]] (Austria, Germany, or Switzerland).

Along with [[St. Moritz]], Switzerland and [[Lake Placid, New York]] in the United States, it is one of three places which have twice hosted the Winter Games. It also hosted the [[1984 Winter Paralympics|1984]] and [[1988 Winter Paralympics]].

Innsbruck hosted the [[2012 Winter Youth Olympics|1st Winter Youth Olympic Games]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=2890 |title=International Olympic Committee – News |publisher=Olympic.org |access-date=5 May 2009}}</ref>

Other notable events held in Innsbruck include the [[Air & Style|Air & Style Snowboard Contest]] from 1994 to 1999 and 2008 and the [[Ice Hockey World Championships|Ice Hockey World Championship]] in 2005. Together with the city of [[Seefeld, Tirol|Seefeld]], Innsbruck organized the Winter [[Universiade]] in 2005. Innsbruck's [[Bergiselschanze]] is one of the hills of the famous [[Four Hills Tournament]].

Innsbruck is home to [[association football|football]] clubs [[WSG Tirol]] and [[FC Wacker Tirol|FC Wacker Innsbruck]], who play in the [[Austrian Football Bundesliga|Austrian Bundesliga]] and the [[Austrian Landesliga]] respectively. Former teams include the [[FC Swarovski Tirol]] and [[FC Tirol Innsbruck]]. The teams' stadium, [[Tivoli Neu]], is one of eight stadiums which hosted [[Euro 2008]], which took place in Switzerland and Austria in June 2008.

The city is home to the American football team [[Raiders Tirol]]. Innsbruck hosted an American football final, [[Eurobowl]] XXII between the [[Swarco Raiders Tirol]] and the [[Raiffeisen Vikings Vienna]].

The city hosted opening round games in the [[2011 IFAF World Championship]], the official international [[American Football]] championship.

In 2018 Innsbruck hosted the [[International Federation of Sport Climbing|IFSC]] Climbing World Championships 2018 from 6 to 16 September and the [[2018 UCI Road World Championships]] from 22 to 30 September.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.innsbruck2018.com|title=Kletter-WM Innsbruck Tirol 2018: IFSC Climbing World Championships|first=Austria|last=Climbing|website=Innsbruck / Tirol 2018}}</ref>

=== Language ===
Innsbruck is part of the [[Austro-Bavarian]] region of [[dialects]] and, more specifically, [[Southern Bavarian]] (''Südbairisch'').<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mayerthaler |first1=Willi |title=Infinitivprominenz in europäischen Sprachen: Der Alpen-Adria-Raum als Schnittstelle von Germanisch, Romanisch und Slawisch |date=1995 |publisher=Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen |location=Tübingen |isbn=3823350625 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QFSFfe9BkEC |access-date=29 June 2020}}</ref> Irina Windhaber, professor for linguistics at the Universität Innsbruck, has observed a trend among young people to choose more often Standard German language structures and pronunciation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Burger |first1=Sonja |title=Dialekt bis Internet: Deutsche Sprache wird bunter |url=https://www.diepresse.com/4613196/dialekt-bis-internet-deutsche-sprache-wird-bunter |website=Die Presse |date=5 December 2014 |publisher="Die Presse" Verlags-Gesellschaft m.b.H. Co KG |access-date=29 June 2020}}</ref>