Margaret Childs
Margaret Childs is the CEO and Publisher of Metropole. Originally from New York, Vienna has been her home town since high school. She is a board member of AustrianStartups and actively supports entrepreneurs in their internationalization efforts. She is known for loving Vienna passionately, talking too fast and inhaling coffee like there's no tomorrow. She tweets @mtmchilds
Photo: Michèle Pauty
Publisher’s Letter | This Is How We Do It
Imitation. It’s the secret to winning over any group you want to be part of. I know. I speak from experience. As a restless 14-year-old, my mother informed me that my Thursday evenings were...
Melange | Club Culture Austria
The new director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York on diversity, connecting artists and putting discovery over instruction.
“For me, it’s the most exciting cultural post,” said Michael Haider, the new director of...
Melange | The Bright Side of Bleakness
Pop star and comic Otto Jaus waxes poetic about fame, being funny and attempts to define the many meanings of the word Schmäh
It’s not hard to see why Otto Jaus has been so successful...
Publisher’s Letter | Schmäh Eats Sarcasm for Breakfast
Some people say that when you begin dreaming in a foreign language you have mastered it. That may be, but I say, it’s when you begin telling jokes that you’ve truly arrived. That’s humor...
Melange | Gorilla Kitchen: Everyday Investors
With the platform Own Austria, founders Martin Foussek and Thomas Niss aim to help people make better investments through trust and familiarity
Few Austrians invest in the stock market. Most estimate it between 4% and...
Publisher’s Letter | The Art We Live In
Often appreciation is just a question of perspective. As a high school student in Vienna, I spent warm afternoons riding my bike down the Prater Hauptallee, all the way to the Lusthaus and back,...
The Deconstructed Architect
At Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf Prix’s 5th district Architecture studio, the walls are lined with what hundreds of prints, renderings and models of dreamlike structures. Most are glass and silver buildings, grand and futuristic, with...
We Privatized a Zoo | A Chat with Tiergarten Schönbrunn’s General Manager
The director and general manager of the Schönbrunn Zoo, Dagmar Schratter, spoke to us about activism, animal husbandry, why some frogs wave and the tricks of impregnating an elephant
Arriving at the oldest existing zoo...
Publisher’s Letter | Puppy Love and the Cat’s Meow
At 14, I joined the ranks of the Viennese pet-owning public when – for a brief stint of six weeks – I adopted an adorable short-haired black and white puppy named Kuro. My after-school...
