Friday, 23.1.2026, 6 p.m.

Teatime in Rememberance of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Talk with architects Otto Kapfinger and Elsa Prochazka 

To attend in person, please register via Mail: 
anmeldung@schuette-lihotzky.at
Recommended Donation/Entry Fee: 20 Euros 

For a free participation online via Zoom, we also kindly ask for registration – a participation link will be sent in return. 
 
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From Tuesday, 23.12.2025,

Closing time and restart in 2026

The MSL Centre will be closed from December 23, 2025 until January 6, 2026 and will be open again from Friday,  January 9 at the usual times.
 

We wish you a relaxing festive season and a good start to the new year 2026.

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Thursday, 4.12.2025, 7 p.m.

"Kitchen Talks with Rebels": Film-Screening at Gleis21

Venue:  Gleis 21, Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 22, 1100 Wien
Film: "Küchengespräche mit Rebellinnen. Frauen im antifaschistischen Widerstand" Documentary, 80 min, Austria 1984
Screenplay, editing, direction: Karin Berger, Elisabeth Holzinger, Lotte Podgornik, Lisbeth N. Trallori.
with: Rosl Grossmann-Breuer, Anni Haider, Agnes Primocic, Johanna Sadolschek-Zala


 
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Thursday, 27.11.2025, 6 p.m.

Teatime: "Women* in the Resistance"

A conversation at the MSL Center about the various aspects of female resistance with
 

• Helga Amesberger, Mag.a Dr.in (social scientist, long-time employee of the Institute for Conflict Research), current publication: Meine Mama war Widerstandskämpferin. Netzwerke des Widerstands und dessen Bedeutung für die nächste Generation (My Mom Was a Resistance Fighter: Networks of Resistance and Their Significance for the Next Generation), Vienna 2019.
• S.E. Eisterer Ph.D. (she/her, architect, assistant professor, School of Architecture, Princeton University) – will join via Zoom, researches female architects in the resistance, is working on the English translation and monograph of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's “Memories from the Resistance.”
• Christine Oertel, Mag.a (contemporary historian in the MSL Center research team): presents female architects in the resistance, specifically Viktoria Mayer and Leopoldine Schrom.

 

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Thursday, 20.11.2025, 6 p.m.

„Erinnerungen aus dem Widerstand“: A musical reading with Maren Rahmann at MSL Center

With readings from the autobiographical writings of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and songs based on texts by Antonia Bruha, Jura Soyfer, and others, Maren Rahmann brought the experiences of this extraordinary woman to life. 



 
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Friday, 14.11.2025

Iconic Houses: New Austria Brochure

The Iconic Houses organization, in cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office, will publish an updated brochure on Austrian architectural gems. In addition to revised texts—including one on the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Centre—there are also two new entries from Vienna: Haus Rietveld in the Werkbundsiedlung and Villa Rezek.

Further information on the Iconic Houses Austria Special can be found here.
 
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In Memoriam – Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat

Mourning the pioneer of feminist art history and cultural research, on September 17, 2025, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat passed away in Vienna surrounded by her closest family. The funeral took place on October 10, 2025.
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat was the youngest daughter of Grete and Fritz Tugendhat, who were expelled from their home, Tugendhat House in Brno, as Jewish refugees and found refuge in Caracas.
Born on August 2, 1946, in Caracas, she spent her youth in St. Gallen, where her family had moved, and studied art history in Bern and Vienna. She wrote her dissertation under Otto Pächt (as did Ulrike Jenni) and was a pioneer in feminist art history and cultural research, influencing generations of art historians with her lectures and publications.
 
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Collaborative Educational Project:

VIrtual Reality Game

On September 25, students from BG/BRG Mödling Bachgasse visited us and presented their virtual reality game, which they developed in cooperation with the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Centre. Using a 3D camera, they captured the former apartment of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and transformed the recordings into a virtual reality game with the program WONDA.
 
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