Linz.Stories from the Fringe - Book Presentation
Press Release
4 March 2009
ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Upper Austria Regional Studio
Europaplatz 3, 4020 Linz
Linz.Stories from the Fringe
Contents (in German):
Robert Schindel - My Linz
Anna Mitgutsch - On the Edge of Town
Walter Wippersberg - Excluded, Hushed Up, Defamed
Eugenie Kain - Sun City
Erich Hackl - Tschofenigweg: Its Legends
Margit Schreiner - Slow Down – Reconstruction
Ludwig Laher - Franz Stelzhamer and the Giant-Tapeworm-Bat-Mouse-Feeder That Refused to Die
Martin Pollack/Robert Schindel - We Didn’t Know Our Fathers
From an idea by Dr. Helmut Obermayr
Edited by Alfred Pittertschatscher
Produced jointly by Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture, Picus Verlag and ORF Upper Austria
LUDWIG LAHER scrutinizes the seemingly unassailable veneration of Upper Austrian dialect poet Franz Stelzhamer and, with his outsider’s point of view, attempts to reduce it to somewhat more appropriate proportions. ERICH HACKL seeks traces of a heroine of the resistance in Linz. ANNA MITGUTSCH and MARGIT SCHREINER reconstruct Linz as a native-born woman and as one who moved back here. WALTER WIPPERSBERG’s account of two lesser-known Linz writers also provides a time-lapse picture of cultural policymaking in (Upper) Austria. EUGENIE KAIN describes Linz from an outsider’s perspective. And ROBERT SCHINDEL and MARTIN POLLACK question their past. Did Pollack’s father interrogate Schindel’s mother?
