Campaign Supporters
“Acoustic City” is constantly approaching men and women in public life and requesting their input and support for the initiative’s mission. Such backing can take all sorts of forms: using public speeches as opportunities to addresses disturbing developments with respect to public acoustic space, lobbying leaders in politics and commerce to implement noise pollution-free spaces, and efforts to support and maintain the Akustikon as the center and culmination point of “Acoustic City.”The ever-growing list of “Acoustic City” supporters includes:
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor and designated director of the Staatsoper
Roland Gnaiger, professor of architecture at Linz Art University
Andreas Stadler, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Sonja Ablinger, member of parliament
Heinrich Schiff, musician, festival director
Gabriella Hauch, Department of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Linz
Elmar Altvater, economist, journalist
Herbert Tumpel, president of the Austrian Chamber of Labor
Anton Zeilinger, physicist
Reinhard Kannonier, rector of the Linz Art University
Prof. Karl-Heinz Essl, composer
Rudi Anschober, government of the Province of Upper Austria
Christoph Koller, CEO, Steinway Austria
Dennis Russell Davies, principal conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dietfried Bernet, conductor
Erich Haider, deputy governor of the Province of Upper Austria
Theresa Jordis, president of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Bernhard Kerres, artistic director of the Wiener Konzerthaus
Rudolf Buchbinder, pianist, artistic director of the Grafenegg Festival
Günther Rhomberg, president of the Bregenz Festival
Aleksandar Markovic, principal conductor, Tiroler Landestheater and Orchestra
Reinhold Messner, alpinist and environmentalist
Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger, artist
Helga Rabl-Stadler, president of the Salzburg Festival
Hans Platzgumer, artist
Peter Paul Kaspar, priest and rector of Linz’s Ursuline Church
Gernot Rammer, director of Austrian Kinderfreunde
