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
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...
Publisher’s Letter: A River Runs Through It
My first home on the European continent was in Bratislava, Slovakia. The city was still run down in 1994, but as an 8-year-old ragamuffin, the chaos was fuel for the imagination. My brother and...
Schooling the Grown-Ups: A Chat with the Rector of Danube University Krems
The rector of the Danube University Krems on education reform, collaboration along the river and the benefits of studying in the countryside.
It’s easy to understand why people would want to study here. From the...
