When I was in Vienna in August of 2026 I wanted to visit places where Gramsci had lived while he was in Vienna (between December 1923 and May 1924). I didn't manage to work out where Gramsci had lived while I was there but since then I have been reading A Great & Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 - and that book contains information about the places Gramsci lived while he was in Vienna. According to a footnote, "Initially Gramsci lodged in Schönbrunner Street, then on the south-west outskirts of Vienna with Joseph Frey, the general secretary of the Austrian Communist Party". The letters themselves contain more precise details.
The address that Gramsci lived at on Schönbrunner Straße was:
Schönbrunner straße 236, apartment 7, right hand staircase, c/o Dr Joseph Frey.
and after that Gramsci lived at
Floriangasse, 5A, Door 20, 3rd Floor
- at least that is what his letter to Julia Schucht (his wife) says on 6th March 1924. However, further research suggests that there is no such street as Floriangasse - and so presumably Gramsci lived on Florianigasse (with an 'i' between Florian and gasse)- behind the Rathaus. In another letter to his wife, Julia Schucht, he gives the address as: Floriangasse, 5 - Door 20 - III Floor Vienna/VIII Austria.
