Zeit Geschichte vermitteln
Copyright: Adam Wieczorkowski
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
GUSEN.
Copyright: Daniele Karasz
Students walk while listening to AUDIOPATH GUSEN and thereby confront the hidden remembrance of a place that, during the time of Nazi dictatorship, was the location of the Gusen I and II concentration camps. Without exhibits, signage or maps, listeners equipped with an audio device and headphones are guided by precise verbal instructions through a tranquil landscape.
“This has turned into a lovely residential neighborhood. This is a town in Upper Austria, and that’s all there is to say about it.”
The experiences gleaned during the walk through, simultaneously, the past and present of this place are then the subject of reflections in a dramaturgical role-playing exercise in which students become active protagonists assuming a variety of different positions amidst this controversial place. Remembrance links together past, present and future.
Teachers are provided with a portfolio containing information for further study in a classroom setting.
“This has turned into a lovely residential neighborhood. This is a town in Upper Austria, and that’s all there is to say about it.”
The experiences gleaned during the walk through, simultaneously, the past and present of this place are then the subject of reflections in a dramaturgical role-playing exercise in which students become active protagonists assuming a variety of different positions amidst this controversial place. Remembrance links together past, present and future.
Teachers are provided with a portfolio containing information for further study in a classroom setting.
WHEN // Beginning in April 2009 / twice a month throughout the Upper Austrian school year
DURATION // Approximately 2½ hours
WHERE // Gusen
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