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QUEERING WIENER ZENTRALFRIEDHOF
Event by: Qwien - Verein für queere Kultur und Geschichte
Location: Zentralfriedhof 2.Tor, Vienna - Simmering
Tickets: 22 EUR · Get tickets
About event
The Vienna Central Cemetery has been a “history book” of the city for 150 years. Numerous well-known personalities who have shaped Vienna's past and present rest here. But the cemetery also tells an important chapter of queer history.
On our tour, we explore the final resting places of historical figures connected to queer history and culture. In addition to famous names such as Eduard van der Nüll, Franz Schubert, Nikolaus Dumba, the Wittgenstein family, Wenzel Graf Gleispach, Marcel Prawy, Engelbert Broda, Johanna Dohnal, Dorothea Neff & Eva Zilcher, Rosa Jochmann, Max Lorenz and Theodor Körner, we also meet less well-known but equally moving ones fates.
We particularly commemorate Franz Doms, who was murdered during the Nazi era, and recently also Hermes Phettberg, one of the most colorful figures in recent Viennese cultural history.
Are you curious? Then join us in this commemoration of queer people at the Vienna Central Cemetery!
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Meeting point: Vienna Central Cemetery, Gate 2; Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234, 1130 Vienna
Date: October 25th, 2025
Start & Duration: 2:00 p.m., duration approx. 2-3 hours
Language: 🇦🇹🇩🇪 Event in German language
End of the tour:Vienna Central Cemetery, Gate 2
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Our tour takes place in public spaces and is therefore conditionally barrier-free (curbstones/kerbs, some paths in parks, cobblestones)