Audio Play 2019

Susanne Ayoub’s new audio play marking 100 years of women’s suffrage
https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/654800

1919: One hundred and one years ago, Austrian women could vote for the first time. The path leading there had been long and rough. Susanne Ayoub presents portraits of two of the steadfast champions of a woman’s right to vote in her audio piece “Bread and Roses”: the middle-class writer Rosa Mayreder fought for the education and social recognition of women; the Social Democratic politician Adelheid Popp represented the interests of working women, especially the demand that to this day has not been met: equal pay for equal work.

BREAD AND ROSES
with Gerti Drassl, Silvia Meisterle, Johanna Tomek, Karl Menrad, Wolfgang Rupert Muhr, Klaus Uhlich, Aimie Rehburg, and guest appearances by Markus Hering and Floran Teichtmeister. Directed by Susanne Ayoub. Sound by Robert Pavlecka. Edited by Elisabeth Stratka.

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20200418/595317/Pionierinnen-Adelheid-Popp-und-Rosa-Mayreder

Once upon a time: The rich child and the poor child

‘I knitted socks for other people and ran errands. Eventually I was taught how to sew buttons on, and I sewed mother-of-pearl buttons onto silver and gold paper. This was now how I always occupied myself when I got home from school and on days with no school. If I sewed on twelve dozen buttons, I earned one and a half kreutzers.’

Quoted from Adelheid Popp: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WORKING WOMAN

‘As narrow a waist as possible was every young girl’s ambition, while the absence of hips and a bosom were considered an unforgiveable shortcoming. You were in danger of bringing this on yourself if you used your mind too much. Another widespread opinion was that you could make your hair fall out by studying. The prevalence of bald heads among men was attributed to intellectual exertion.’

Quoted from Rosa Mayreder: THE HOUSE ON LANDSKRON STREET

Translation Geoffrey Howes