Explore Linz!
Copyright: Ruth Karner
City tours can give us new ways of looking at urban spaces that we thought were so very familiar, and reveal details that we somehow just failed to notice before. Due to popular demand, two Linz09 projects are reprising their program of guided tours. The offerings include historical explorations and a stroll through multicultural Linz.
Texts spray-painted right onto the pavement at 65 locations all over town is how the IN SITU project demarcates the sites at which Nazi terror was implemented in Linz between 1938 and 1945. What they make clear is the extent to which persecution was part of the fabric of everyday life. The tour’s route isn’t limited to the various headquarters of National Socialist policymaking; it also includes factories and private homes where denunciations took place and arrests were made. The project organizers conduct tours on a regular basis; the next is in mid-October.The Linz Mitte neighborhood surrounding Wiener Straße is the part of town in which cultural diversity is the greatest. Twelve women who have experienced immigration up close and personal are now conducting tour groups—composed of locals and visitors alike—through this neighborhood. They present it from their individual points of view and tie in their impressions with the story of their own migration to Linz. These Culture Pilots (as the project itself is entitled) conduct several different themed tours: Life and Death, Work and Culture, With One Another/Next to Each Other, Alone/Networking. A fascinating look at one of the liveliest parts of Linz!
In Situ
Guided tours on October 15, 2009 at 6 PM and on October 16, 2009 at 5 PM
Pre-register by e-mail to insitu@gmx.at; participation is free of charge.
www.insitu-linz09.at
Culture Pilots
Urban explorations between October 17 and November 8, 2009 in the neighborhood surrounding Wiener Straße
Pre-register by calling 0732 / 7070-2009 or 0664 / 82 83 860; participation is free of charge.
www.linz09.at/kulturlotsinnen
