English summary: Murder, hostage takings, indiscriminate attacks - between 1973 and 1985 Austria was a major target of international Middle Eastern terrorism. This book reviews the whole complex of events - the hostage takings of Marchegg (1973) and in the OPEC-headquarter in Vienna (1975), the murder of the Viennese town councilman Heinz Nittel (1981), the attacks against the Viennese synagogue (1981), and the El-Al-counters of Schwechat...