IN SITU – Zeitgeschichte findet Stadt: Nationalsozialismus in Linz
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Press Conference
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 9.30 a.m.
Linz09 Press Center (Linz09 Infocenter, 1st floor)
Hauptplatz 5, 4020 Linz
Featured speakers: Ulrich Fuchs (Linz09 deputy artistic director and head of project development), Dagmar Höss, Monika Sommer and Heidemarie Uhl (project initiators)
The aim of Linz09’s IN SITU. History Goes to Town: National Socialism in Linz project is to make visible the Nazis multi-layered policy of annihilation and to inscribe it into everyday perception. Temporary signs in public spaces in Linz will mark 65 sites of National Socialist terror.
The title IN SITU—Latin for on site—is emblematic of this effort to link places to their history.
The IN SITU project has already gotten started temporarily marking a total of 65 locations in Linz. Large-format stencils are used to spray-paint a brief text on site—IN SITU—that makes reference to what happened at that place during the Nazi era.
This initiative does not focus exclusively on well-known locations amidst the topography of terror in Linz such as Gestapo headquarters on Langgasse or the synagogue on Bethlehemstraße. We are also pointing out buildings and public squares to which scant attention has been paid heretofore and that give little indication of being anything out of the ordinary. We indicate their historical significance as places where National Socialist despotism was implemented in real life.
