Armbrustergasse 15 - Bruno Kreisky Forum

The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue was founded in 1991, in pursuit of the international activities of Bruno Kreisky and in an endeavour to carry on what had always been of special concern to the statesman Kreisky.

As a permanent centre of dialogue, the Kreisky Forum has made as its principal objective the gathering of politicians, academics and critical minds from around the globe for an exchange of ideas and opinions, and deriving from the outcome of this exchange answers and possible solutions to complex issues and problems that call for a global response. The European tradition of intellectuals and scientists taking a public stand on political events and in particular on conflicts or armed hostilities is thus revived and transposed to the present through topical commentary and reflection.

The Kreisky Forum regularly invites internationally recognised politicians, opinion leaders, representatives of the business community and academics to panel discussions, symposia, lectures, and seminars. It also organises meetings with guests actors and experts in world politics that provide representatives and friends of the Kreisky Forum with the opportunity to meet and discuss in small groups.

For decades, the home of Bruno Kreisky in Armbrustergasse in Vienna was a site of international and domestic political encounters as well as a centre of Austrian political decision making. In 1991, the Kreisky Forum - with the support of the Republic of Austria Government and the City of Vienna - acquired Kreisky’s residence and then adapted it to meet the Forum’s new needs.

		In 1993, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, as Austrian Federal Chancellor and President of the Kreisky Forum’s Board of Directors, and Marion Countess Dönhoff, publisher of the renowned German weekly "Die Zeit", officially opened the Bruno Kreisky Forum.
R. Kirchschläger, M. Dönhoff, O. Rathkolb

Equipped with a lecture hall, as well as seminar rooms open to the public, the former residence of Bruno Kreisky has been re-designed to meet the high standards of a modern, international conference and communication centre.