Vienna honors women championing equality and progress
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The city of Vienna, Austria, recently awarded its annual Vienna Women’s Prize to three women and one collective for their contributions to equality, visibility, and social progress.
The city has given the prize since 2002 to recognize women and initiatives working to improve society. This year’s winners received 3000 euros and a statue created by artist Vivien Schneider-Siemssen during a ceremony at the Arkadenhof of the city hall.
The femchor, a group founded in 2020, won in the “Everyday Hero” category for its work promoting equality and opposing patriarchal structures. Katja Sturm-Schnabl received the “Witness of the Times” award. Born in 1936 as a Carinthian Slovene (a member of a Slavic ethnic group in Austria), Sturm-Schnabl survived deportation and imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps as a child. After the war, she became a scholar of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia.
Ingrid Brodnig earned the prize in the “Digitalization” category. Brodnig shares strategies against hate and misinformation in her books. City Councillor Elke Hanel-Torsch praised the award winners, saying their work demonstrates a commitment to equality and serves as an example for others to follow.
