On October 5, 2020, an artistic intervention was carried out at the monument to Vienna's antisemitic mayor Karl Lueger. Golden letters were applied to the monument: SCHANDE – marking the monument as what it is: a DISGRACE. The letters were casted of concrete and painted in gold. They resemble the shape of graffiti which had been put on the monument's plinth in the beginning of July 2020 by unknown authors.

A group of artists consisting of Anna Witt, Simon Nagy, Gin Müller, Mischa Guttmann and Eduard Freudmann, started a Schandwache – a "vigil of disgrace" – in front of the monument. The Schandwache was carried out in collaboration with 15 cultural and political organizations. Activists of the organizations were standing guard for one week to protect the graffiti from being removed by the city authorities. The initiative demanded that the monument would be artistically reconfigured or removed. Until the reconfiguration or the removal is carried out, the graffiti has to remain.

The action took place in the week before Vienna’s local elections. Four hours after the opening of the artistic intervention a group of neofascists appeared at the monument to knock off the golden letters. However, there was plenty of support by civil society and political organizations as well as wide media coverage. As a result of the Schandwache the graffiti remained on the monument until this day. In December 2021 Vienna’s City Secretary for Culture officially announced that the monument will be artistically reconfigured in autumn 2023.

Participating organizations
Verein Gedenkdienst, Grüne & Alternative Student_innen, Frauen*volksbegehren, Hashomer Hatzair, Burschenschaft Hysteria, Jüdische Österreichische HochschülerInnenschaft, KZ-Verband, LINKS, Migrantifa Wien, Muslimische Jugend Österreich, Theatergruppe Nesterval, ÖH der Akademie der bildendenden Künste, Queermuseum, Sodom Vienna, Sozialistische Jugend Wien, TFM-Archiv