Bruno Kreisky on TOUR – Democracy Needs Movement!
The Bruno Kreisky Forum has initiated a city tour with the cultural collective WHOOSH, to which we cordially invite you! The first tour will take place on 2 May 2026 at 10:30, further dates and tours will be announced here and on the WHOOSH website.
Bruno Kreisky was probably the most influential and respected politician in the Second Republic of Austria - ahead of his time on many issues and solutions, a cross-party thinker and respected, internationally recognised, remembered and honoured beyond Austria's borders to this day.
„Going part of the way together“ - that was his motto and we take it seriously! Bruno Kreisky was a Viennese whom you could meet in person and even call directly: And even today you can meet him and thus his ideas if you hurry through Bruno- Kreisky-Gasse between the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of the Interior towards the Foreign Ministry (1st district) or stroll through the park named after him (5th district). There is a square named after the honorary citizen of Vienna (22nd district), which is not coincidentally located next to the UNO City, one of the four headquarters of the United Nations, which Bruno Kreisky brought to Vienna. A municipal building (17th district) is named after him, as is the Bruno Kreisky Archive Foundation (5th district), a school (11th district), there is even a rock band bearing his name and several busts showing his likeness. Kreisky brought OPEC (1st district) to Vienna and successfully campaigned to establish Vienna as the conference venue for the CSCE (Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe), which ultimately also brought the headquarters of the OSCE Secretariat to the federal capital in 1995 (1st district). Kreisky had the country's largest conference centre, the Austria Center Vienna, built. None of the projects were uncontroversial, but all of them contributed to Austria's foreign policy reputation as a platform for international dialogue activities. „You can only stabilise a democracy by keeping it in motion“, Bruno Kreisky is said to have often quoted the French politician Edouard Herriot - and we contribute to this: Democracy needs movement!
At a time when democracy is under pressure in many ways, the Bruno Kreisky Forum has initiated the idea of organising a walk through Vienna: while walking you can listen and learn, exchange experiences, share memories, pass on knowledge and discuss your ideas in a constructive and varied way. Of course, it should also be fun! In a storytelling tour lasting approx. 2.5 hours, the cultural collective WHOOSH links the life and work of Bruno Kreisky with challenges of his time that still concern us today, first and foremost the strengthening of democracy and an open society, social and economic policy issues and international peace dialogue! The critical city tour leads from Bruno Kreisky Park via the school he himself attended in the 6th district, the Vorwärtshaus and numerous other stops to Café Landtmann. You can look forward to this and every new route!
Photo source: © Bruno Kreisky Archive