LGBTQ+ Friends Vienna 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Share moments together

Do you love playing card games or want to learn some traditional ones? Due to popular demand from our past board game nights, we've decided to dedicate a special monthly night just for traditional card games!

Join us as we dive into classic Austrian card games like Tarock, Schnapsen, and other favorites. Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with the rules—we're here to help everyone learn and enjoy the game.

• Cards Provided: No need to bring your own—we’ve got you covered!
• Participation Fee: To help cover the Meetup maintenance fee, we recommend a donation of 1-2 Euros.

Rules:

• Be patient and respectful to everyone at all times.
• Play fair and remember, we’re here to have fun, not to cheat or gamble.

Whether you’re a seasoned player or just curious, we’d love to see you there!

Our meetup at The Hive have been really nice. There are always at some familiar faces and new ones, So, all newcomers are very welcome. This is your chance to meet people from Vienna in a relaxed and cosy atmosphere.

To run this group and cover Meetup's monthly fee for our organizer account, we recommend a small donation of 1 or 2 euros per person.

Voices – new format during our Get-together

This time, we’ll be highlighting two friends, giving them the opportunity to share their experiences and insights with us.

• Jatin is originally from India and is currently studying in Vienna. His journey to get here is filled with challenges, surprises, and lessons that many of us can relate to. I’ll be speaking with him about his experiences, what he's learned, and the advice he has for anyone thinking about living abroad in a different culture.
• Felix is not just a friendly and curious person, but also a talented painting artist who is still discovering his style and path. We’ll dive into what it means to be an artist today, the real challenges he faces, and how one can start their own journey in the art world.

Daniel & Martin

Join our monthly “Queer Kegelabend”, which is mostly a pure fun event with a slight sportive touch. No previous experience required. Beginners and all genders most welcome! It is our ambition to welcome a broadly diversified crowd! Your own omfortable footwear might contribute to an enjoyable evening.

Schedule:

1. 19:20 Get together
2. 19:25 Instructions (including safety), line-up of participants
3. 19:30 Getting started

• Latecomers unfortunately can´t be admitted.
• Please bring a few EUR 1 coins to keep the coin operated machinery going.

There is no drinks or food service in the basement (Kegelbahn) of Café Weidinger. So feel free to order something on arrival and take it downstairs before we get started. Alternatively bring your own drinks or food. Yes, this is possible!

Its chatting, meeting (new) people, catching-up with the ones you might already know from our monthly MeetUps at the HIVE or other events. Communication is key, like always. Let’s enjoy a nice evening together with a modest sportive touch on the side!

Please show respect to the others and arrive on time. As we need to line-up the players before getting starteted, hence late comers unfortunately can´t be admitted.

What is skittles play (Kegeln)?
Skittles play has a very long tradition in Europe and is the game before the Americans "invented" bowling. So we will play with 9 pins and smaller balls with less weight compared to bowling.

Costs: To rent the skittle alley is just EUR 8 per hour for the whole group. We will divide costs by the number of participants.
So expect a contribution of around EUR 2-3 for the whole evening. The number of participants is limited.
The machinery of the skittle alley is coin operated and accepts EUR 1 coins only. So please bring along a few EUR 1 coins to keep the machinery going!

Results: The results of the evening (Igo is so kind to count the scores and enters theses for each participant in a spreadsheet) are published in the "pictures" area of the MeetUp. Historic results are availble there.

Cafe Weidinger has not been renovated over the last at least 50 years.
The skittles alley dates from 1964. You can feel this "special flair". A bit shaby, but inexpensive fun for a whole evening.
It´s almost a museum of a skittles alley.

The difference between bowling and skittles play:

• The bowling lanes are covered with an oil film, the skittles lane is not.
• In bowling, the ball is is considerably larger and heavier.
• Bowling lanes are slightly curved, our lane is flat.
• Bowling balls have three holes, our balls have none, one or two. Most of our balls have two holes.
• Nine pins are thrown instead of ten.
• In bowling, the pins are set up by so-called pin-setter machines and therefore stand freely in contrast to skittles, where the pins hang from strings.
• Our skittles lane is an asphalt lane.
• You do not need to rent or bring special shoes llike for bowling. But to play in sneakers or sportive footwear is more comfortable.

Max Diehm liest aus »Was im Dunklen bleibt«

Max Diehm präsentiert seinen Debütroman »Was im Dunklen bleibt« und gibt im Anschluss an die Lesung Einblicke in die Entstehung des Buches in einem persönlichen Gespräch.

Über das Buch

Aaron, ein Stadtmensch, lässt sich seinem Lebenspartner zuliebe auf einen Umzug in dessen Heimatdorf ein. Doch für Aaron bedeutet das Landleben eine völlig neue, fremde Welt. Während sein Freund Sebastian schnell in den gewohnten Arbeitsalltag und die familiären Strukturen zurückfindet, fühlt Aaron sich in der dörflichen Gemeinschaft zunehmend unwohl. Die scheinbare Idylle des Dorfes trügt, und Aaron entdeckt immer mehr düstere Geheimnisse aus der Vergangenheit. Ein beklemmendes Gefühl der Bedrohung wächst, und auch der mysteriöse Nachbar, der immer mehr Aarons Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zieht, sorgt für zusätzliche Unruhe.

Über den Autor

Max Diehm, geboren 1990 in Wertheim am Main, studierte Germanistik und Anglistik in Heidelberg, Wien und London nach seinem Abitur und Zivildienst. Er hatte einen Lehrauftrag an der Yale University und arbeitet heute als Lehrer für Deutsch und Englisch an einem Gymnasium. Mit seinem Mann und einer Katze lebt er am Fuße des Nordschwarzwaldes. Sein erster Roman »Was im Dunklen bleibt« erschien 2024 im Querverlag.