The phrase "austrian background" is correct and usable in written English, although it should be capitalized as "Austrian background." You can use it to refer to someone's heritage or cultural origins related to Austria.
Example: "She has an Austrian background, which influences her love for traditional Viennese cuisine."
Alternatives: "Austrian heritage" or "Austrian roots."
David Bouley's influence, coupled with Mr. Gutenbrunner's Austrian background -- he is from Wallsee -- made for a stimulating blend of elegance and brawn.
Schwarzenegger recalls, "He starts almost talking like a psychiatrist, and telling me the reasons why I'm not interested in it, because I come from an Austrian background, and maybe someone would give me less dialogue because I'm not as understandable.
"Family dinner was our opportunity to sit together and enjoy her cooking: salads with tomatoes or avocados from the garden, shepherd's pie and schnitzel -- she's English with an Austrian background".
"Family dinner was our opportunity to sit together and enjoy her cooking: salads with tomatoes or avocados from the garden, shepherd's pie and schnitzel (she's English with an Austrian background)." Now living in a house with an olive grove in Lucca, Italy, Rosemary's specialties have since changed, and it comes as no surprise that her son has named his new Italian restaurant in her honor.
Backstage, Marios Schwab displayed a little book of his inspirations: an article about saving vanishing bees; photos of shells and leaves fanning out like pleated skirts; drawings of ancient Greek warriors, reminiscent of his Greco-Austrian background; Navajo Indians; birds drawn like botanical species.
He came from an Austrian-Jewish background and was newly arrived in Britain, having spent the war years lecturing in New Zealand.
The sample consisted of three groups of 140 smokers each, with either a Bosnian or Turkish migration background and Austrian smokers without a migration background.
According to EthnOpinion, a Vienna-based market-research institute, almost one in seven Austrians with a Turkish background observes the holiday.
Most of the troop had German, Austrian, or Eastern European backgrounds, while others were political or religious refugees from Nazi Germany.
On 28 April he invited the editors of the main Austrian dailies to an informal background discussion at his residence.
Hayek, by contrast, with his background in the Austrian school, was absorbed in a quest to understand the abstract beauties of the price mechanism, with some impatience for restless advocates of quick-fix solutions.
