Humboldt-Institut e.V. runs this residential language camp in Vienna, Austria. The camp welcomes children aged 14–18, with sports and water activities on the programme. 3 sessions scheduled Jul 4 – Jul 31, 2027, each lasting 13–27 nights. Activities run in German.
Residential German camp in Vienna, Austria
Humboldt's German summer courses in Vienna take place at Youth Guest House Brigittenau, the same building the students live so that they do not have to leave the premises and have only short distances to get to class. The guest house is ideally located between Danube Island and downtown Vienna, which gives our students a blend of the atmosphere of the big city with the advantages of a quiet and safe residential area. The nearby Danube Island is an oasis of tranquility and is ideal for relaxation, sports and manifold leisure activities. The bright and modern twin rooms all have en-suite bathrooms, as well as air conditioning. Students who will share a room with each other are carefully selected to have a comparable German language level and age, yet speak different native languages. This way they are encouraged to speak and practice German with each other outside of the classroom. Boys and girls are housed separately. All students receive three meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Laundry service is offered to all students free of charge once a week for their personal laundry. Bed linen and towels will be provided and changed regularly. The duration of the summer course can be either 2 weeks or 4 weeks. Please see the available dates for more detail.
Dates & Pricing
What's Included
Optional — available at extra cost
Not provided
Activities
Special focus
German · Languages
Vienna is a language course with a full holiday programme wrapped around it, and the two are inseparable: mornings belong to 30 German lessons a week in small classes of around eleven students, taught Monday to Friday in the bright seminar rooms of the youth guest house where the students also sleep, so no one has to leave the building to get to class. Afternoons and evenings are given over to a fixed daily activity programme put together and led by the staff team — sport, games, crafting, a karaoke or movie night, a campfire, a picnic, a swim — with counsellors actively drawing students in rather than posting a sign-up sheet. Two excursions a week, half-day on Wednesday and full-day on Saturday, take the group out into the city and the surrounding region, entrance fees included. Participation in the leisure programme and the excursions is compulsory, which is the point: roommates are matched to share a language level and an age but not a mother tongue, so German becomes the natural currency of the group from breakfast to bedtime. Supervision runs around the clock, and everything — lessons, materials, accommodation, full board, laundry, activities and trips — comes as one package, so students concentrate on the language and the city rather than on logistics.
Other included activities
Excursions & trips
Old town and St. Stephen's Cathedral walk
Hofburg Palace and Empress Sisi
Schönbrunn Palace
UNO City
Prater amusement park and Giant Ferris Wheel
Street art tour
Danube Island beach afternoon
Old town and St. Stephen's Cathedral walk
Hofburg Palace and Empress Sisi
Schönbrunn Palace
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Safety & Supervision
24-hour staff supervision is provided for all students.
Meals
Full board is part of the course package: students receive three meals a day in the guest house where they also live and study. The school states portions are ample so students do not need to buy extra food. Special meals such as vegetarian dishes or meals without certain ingredients can be arranged on request.
Screen time policy
Free WiFi is available throughout the Guest House Wien-Brigittenau, so students can keep in touch with home during their free time, and the daily programme is built so that screens never become the main event. Attendance at classes, meals, the afternoon and evening activities and the two weekly excursions is compulsory, and staff actively encourage students to speak German with each other outside the classroom, which keeps phones in pockets for most of the day. Roommates are deliberately matched across different native languages for the same reason — conversation, rather than a screen, is what fills the room.
Cancellation Policy
Refunds apply to the balance only; the deposit is non-refundable after the first 24 hours. Select a session for exact dates.
100% refund
60+ days before start
50% refund
30–59 days before start
No refund
Under 30 days before start
The booking deposit is non-refundable 24 hours after booking — the refund percentages above apply to the remaining balance only.
Accommodation & campus
Where your child sleeps
The campus
Campus facilities
Location & getting there
HI Hostel Vienna Brigittenau & Brigittenau Youth Palace, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73, 1200 Wien, Austria
Humboldt-Institut Vienna
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Getting your child there
Vienna (VIE)
Pickup service · Most students fly into Vienna International Airport, where a Humboldt staff member meets them and brings them on to the guest house in Brigittenau by car, minibus or occasionally coach; the same team takes them back on departure day. The transfer is arranged on request for 45 EUR per person and route, with a further 50 EUR for students booked as unaccompanied minors on their return flight, and it is shared with other arriving students, so a wait of up to an hour (exceptionally two) should be expected. Flight details — flight number, airline and arrival and departure times — must reach the booking office no later than seven days before arrival, otherwise a late booking fee applies and waiting times may be longer. Arrival is on the Sunday before the course begins and departure on the Saturday after it ends; transfers on any other day are charged at double the fee.
HI Hostel Vienna Brigittenau & Brigittenau Youth Palace, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73, 1200 Wien, Austria
Families who drive bring their child straight to the Jugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenau at Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 73 in Vienna's 20th district, between the Danube Island and the city centre, where both the classrooms and the bedrooms are under one roof. Drop-off is on the Sunday before lessons begin and pick-up on the Saturday after the course ends. A 50 EUR cash deposit is collected on arrival and returned on departure once the room key is handed back.
Wien Hauptbahnhof
Pickup service · For students travelling by rail, staff collect them at Wien Hauptbahnhof, the city's main station, and accompany them to the guest house free of charge, so no one has to find their way across Vienna alone. As with flights, arrival is planned for the Sunday before the course starts and departure for the Saturday after it finishes, and travel details should be passed to the booking office in good time so a member of staff can be waiting on the platform.
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from €3,080
Jul 2027