Diversity - the city's DNA. For centuries, Vienna has been a place where languages and traditions mixed and where genders, cultures, and utopias were negotiated. Beyond the cliché of the peaceful capital of a multi-ethnic empire, Mixed follows new paths to explore the city’s heterogeneity.

48 stories locate Vienna’s diversity in unusual and surprising realms: the Chinese restaurants of the interwar period, the Congregation of Monks that made the city a stronghold of Armenian linguistic research, or the protests by politically engaged African students in the 1960s. And they identify the opponents of this multifariousness, the champions of German nationalism in the 19th century, the masterminds of National Socialism, and the populist voices of the recent past.

Words, Places, Bodies, Fashions - how and where does diversity manifest itself in the city and when does it become a focal point for conflict? These are stories about the pressure to assimilate, the tight corset of “identity”, and the resistance in the face of exclusion and persecution. Each story stands on its own. As a totality they create a panorama of diversity as the motor of the modern metropolis.