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It’s not mandatory, it’s not permitted … to say anything, write anything, react to anything. Cultural programs are mostly consumed passively; those partaking of them just sit around, stand around, walk around. This project reacted to this inactive state by launching new discourses and instigating response.

This initiative interlinked a number of individual Linz09 projects. Its approach was to make the city itself a setting in which to experience what went on here in the not-too-distant past. Because Linz is a place of memory and of commemoration. Because history is omnipresent here. And it’s everybody’s business: Linzers old and young, school classes, tourists, visitors, friends, guests and fans. They all posed questions, sought answers, got worked up, wrote, became enraged, were delighted or astounded. Some even laughed as they personally unraveled the threads of historical narratives, made them visible and integrated them into their daily lives. MEDIATING THE ENCOUNTER WITH MODERN HISTORY went forth in pursuit of traces of the past. Project staffers designed 10 discursive educational programs designed to make the past come alive for various age groups. From March to December 2009, children, young people and adults were invited to rediscover this city and its history.


WHAT // Mediation programms
WHEN // Throughout 2009
WHERE // In Linz and Upper Austria

IDEA / CONCEPT // Hannah Landsmann, Daniele Karasz, Adam Wieczorkowski

See Linz, walk through Linz, describe Linz and write about Linz. Please locate the address of this historic photo. Go there and take a picture. Photograph yourself, your bike, your grandmother, your f...
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Climb aboard, ride along, remember Day after day, we ride through our city and see the same images over and over again. Linz can tell lots of different stories. Downtown and on the outskirts. On the ...
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Educational program for students // Contemporary history as family history Six addresses in Linz are points of departure for an out-of-the-ordinary encounter with history. The pupils will be on the...
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Educational program for students // History as game A courtyard in the Bindermichl neighborhood will serve as the set of a film! To shoot it, the pupils journey through time. The main protagonists ...
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Educational program for students // Contemporary history as dialog Groups of students seek a particular location in downtown Linz that they can find with the help of historical and current photos. ...
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Educational program for students // Is it permissible to even talk about this? In the aftermath of Auschwitz, perhaps it’s not possible to write poems anymore. And maybe there’s simply ...
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Educational program for students // Hearing what can no longer be seen Students walk while listening to AUDIOPATH GUSEN and thereby confront the hidden remembrance of a place that, during the time ...
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27.02.2009
This book invites you to take a brief yet penetrating look at Linz – as it once was and the way it is today. Where does history come into play? What lies below the surface? And does this have an...
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25.04.2009
This series takes a close-up look at addresses and situations within the cityscape. Six times a year, the people of Linz will have the opportunity to get reacquainted with places that have played a ke...
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03.05.2009
Playing history — for young people age 6 and upThe meeting place and point of departure for interested children and parents is the Kinderpunkt facility in the Altes Rathaus. Once a month—a...
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