Red Vienna. Washhouse No. 2
Red Vienna. Washhouse No. 2 at Karl-Marx-Hof is a permanent exhibition on the history of Red Vienna in the First Republic and shows the achievements of the time – from social and health policy to housing issues.
Current special exhibition ‘Käthe Leichter. Surveying Women’. Käthe Leichter was born Marianne Katharina Pick in 1895. She enrolled in political science at the University of Vienna in 1914 and began working as a research assistant to Otto Bauer in 1919. In 1921, she married the journalist Otto Leichter. Käthe Leichter was one of the most influential figures in the labour movement of the First Austrian Republic – ‘the intellectual force behind the socialist women's movement’. As the first head of the Department of Women’s Labour in the Vienna Chamber of Labour, she conducted detailed studies of the living and working conditions of working women, and became a pioneer of social research. Käthe Leichter's call for ‘equal pay for equal work!’ remains as relevant today as it was then.
‘KÄTHE LEICHTER. SURVEYING WOMEN’
As part of the ‘ORF Long Night of Museums’, the team will be giving guided tours of the current special exhibition every hour on the hour.
