The past is not over - it can be rediscovered and explored in archives, and even revived. One such revival - in several acts - is that of the legendary Cabaret Fledermaus (1907-1913) in Vienna, once a locus of emancipatory and escapist tendencies as well as pioneering artistic design.
As part of an international cooperative project, the Department of Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna constructed a faithful replica of the famous bar of this cabaret in 2019, and in 2020 the artists' collective Bar du Bois developed an exhibition entitled unter flaschen. die Fledermaus in der Bar du Bois among bottles. The Fledermaus at the Bar du Bois]. This publication documents both the rediscovery of a legendary site of Viennese modernism and its current twofold "resurrection".