14 Great Women, 14 Great Places
ivie, the free city guide app for Vienna, offers “14 Great Women, 14 Great Places”, a sightseeing experience dedicated to exceptional female role models. “14 Great Women, 14 Great Places” tells the story of Vienna as the home and adopted home of women who broke with traditional gender roles. The city guide presents famous figures who paid little heed to the conventions of their time and links them with Viennese places and institutions that are well worth a visit.
These include names such as the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr and the physicist Lise Meitner – the woman who discovered nuclear fission. However, women whose work has received far too little attention over the decades, such as that of the sculptor and painter Teresa Feodorowna Ries, are also included in the guide. Ceramic artworks by Wiener Werkstätte employee Vally Wieselthier feature here, as do locations that commemorate Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner and composer Constanze Geiger. This is because the male-dominated perception of history has obscured many exciting accounts of women’s achievements.
Discover 14 locations
As part of “14 Great Women, 14 Great Places”, you can discover a special sculpture by Teresa Feodorowna Ries at the Wien Museum. The nuclear physicist Lise Meitner is honored with a memorial in the impressive collonaded courtyard of the University of Vienna. Hedy Lamarr’s extraordinary grave of honor can be admired at Vienna’s Central Cemetery. And the Vienna Music Society has a connection to Constanze Geiger, whose “Ferdinandus Waltz” was the first piece of music by a woman ever to be played at the Vienna New Year’s Concert.
The work of Nannette Streicher awaits you at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology. She was the piano maker to Ludwig van Beethoven. The architectural pioneer Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek are also featured with locations such as the Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Center and the Burgtheater. These women, places and institutions await in the guide:
- Teresa Feodorowna Ries: Wien Museum
- Lise Meitner: University of Vienna
- Hedy Lamarr: Vienna Central Cemetery
- Vally Wieselthier: Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)
- Constanze Geiger: Vienna Music Society
- Rosa Mayreder: Residence and place of death
- Bertha von Suttner: Monument and community building
- Nannette Streicher: Vienna Museum of Science and Technology
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Center
- Anna Sacher: Hotel Sacher
- The Venus of Willendorf: Museum of Natural History Vienna
- Elfriede Jelinek: Burgtheater
- Empress Elisabeth: Sisi Museum Wien
- Anna Freud: Sigmund Freud Museum
How to go straight to “14 Great Women, 14 Great Places”
1. Download ivie for free (iOS or Android)
2. Scan the QR code. You’re ready to go!
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