{"id":622044,"date":"2026-06-05T05:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622044\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:17:10","slug":"breaking-vienna-cancels-billionaire-peter-thiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622044\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Vienna cancels billionaire Peter Thiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>June 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US tech billionaire Peter Thiel from an event this weekend titled, \u2018Armageddon and Antichrist? From Theology to Realpolitik\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The festival said it had faced \u2018an increasing number of politically or ethically motivated cancellations from participants in the artistic program\u2019 which would have \u2018weaken(ed) this year\u2019s festival to an unacceptable degree.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It did not name the artists who threatened to withdraw if Thiel took part.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel, 58, is co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, the first financial backer of Facebook and an outspoken supporter of President Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht June 04, 2026 The Vienna Festival has removed the German-born US tech billionaire Peter Thiel from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}