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. And the survey of women’. Käthe Leichter was born Marianne Katharina Pick in 1895. In 1914, she enrolled in political science at the University of Vienna and worked as a research assistant to Otto Bauer from 1919 on. In 1921 she married the journalist Otto Leichter. Käthe Leichter is one of the most influential personalities in the labour movement of the First Austrian Republic – ‘the intellectual force of the socialist women's movement’. As the first head of the department for women’s labour in the Vienna Chamber of Labour, she carried out detailed studies on 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!’ is as relevant today as it was then.
‘KÄTHE LEICHTER. AND THE SURVEY OF WOMEN’ (6 PM-12 AM)
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.
