{"id":17606,"date":"2019-10-08T05:06:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=17606"},"modified":"2024-12-17T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:56:40","slug":"lamarr-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/lamarr-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedy Lamarr exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jewsish_museum_small.jpg\" alt=\"Jewish Museum sign\" class=\"wp-image-7722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jewsish_museum_small.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jewsish_museum_small-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Few people can hope to have as much impact as Hedy Lamarr. A star of the silver screen, she also invented the technology that eventually led to such communication tools as Bluetooth. The Lamarr exhibition at Vienna&#8217;s Jewish Museum shines a spotlight on this multifaceted personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exhibition illustrates Lamarr&#8217;s entire biography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes wonderful items from the family&#8217;s private collection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Nov 27, 2019 &#8211; Jan 3, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All display information in German and English<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/jewish-museum\/\">Jewish Museum visitor &amp; tickets info<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#history\">Current history exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lady Bluetooth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Vienna&#8217;s Zentralfriedhof cemetery has numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/zentralfriedhoffamousgraves\/\">famous graves<\/a>, not least those of Beethoven and Strauss Jnr. Just a few metres from those legendary composers lies the grave of one Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (1914-2000), better known to you and me as Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood legend and inventor extraordinaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1914, Lamarr&#8217;s upbringing clashed with an era of growing antisemitism and a time when appropriate career opportunities for intelligent women were limited (to say the least).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1933, she married a wealthy arms manufacturer and trader from whom she later fled, beginning the sequence of events that would eventually take her to Hollywood fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a cliche to say her life was like a movie. But it kind of was. Star of such classics as 1949&#8217;s Oscar-winning <em>Samson and Delilah<\/em>, Lamarr&#8217;s biography includes multiple marriages, celebrity, eccentricity, and&#8230;high-tech inventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working with George Antheil, Lamarr&#8217;s ideas for frequency hopping in transmission of radio signals helped lay the foundations for various modern communication technologies, not least Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while Lamarr never won an Oscar, she did win the equivalent in the inventing world as the first female to receive the BULBIE Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award (in 1997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(As an aside, Vienna now awards an annual Hedy Lamarr prize honouring a woman in IT.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <em>Lady Bluetooth<\/em> exhibition, curator Andrea Winklbauer presents Hedy Lamarr&#8217;s life as a series of chronological and themed roles, such as actress, inventor, businesswoman, wife, mother, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos, documents, posters, personal items, and\/or video clips illustrate these roles. Rather wonderfully, Lamarr&#8217;s son (Anthony Loder) allowed many items from his private collection to go on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The transition from young actress to movie star, as evidenced when you compare photos from the early 1930s and her film roles in Europe to a wall of portrait photos and stills from the 1940s and Hollywood. The transformation into the &#8220;most beautiful woman in the world&#8221; becomes very clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The numerous scientific awards and works of art honouring her as a woman of intelligence and invention. These illustrate perfectly how her legacy migrated from diva to scientist, from object of gossip to one of admiration <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The personal letters and telegrams, such as an affectionate letter to her son (complete with red hearts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The clear impression that celebrity is nothing new, only the medium has changed &#8211; magazine covers and press photos litter the exhibition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The pithy quotes that decorate the walls:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lamarr exhibition runs from November 27, 2019 to January 3rd, 2021. You only need a normal museum entrance ticket to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the Lamarr exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum has two exhibition sites and you want the one on Judenplatz, also home to the remains of a synagogue from the early 15th-century (not long after King Harald Bluetooth reigned, as it happens, who gave his name to the technology Lamarr helped create).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For public transport connections, see the main article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/jewish-museum\/\">Jewish Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Judenplatz 8, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1kuTU0C-76Mhn7ArHvQRPPPNUQ_y5QnDH\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few people can hope to have as much impact as Hedy Lamarr. A star of the silver screen, she also invented the technology that eventually led to such communication tools as Bluetooth. The Lamarr exhibition at Vienna&#8217;s Jewish Museum shines a spotlight on this multifaceted personality. Lady Bluetooth Vienna&#8217;s Zentralfriedhof cemetery has numerous famous graves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-museums","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78566,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17606\/revisions\/78566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}