The unheard things
another kind of provenance research
We will come with „Die Unerhörten Dingen" to the Volkskundemuseum in Graz during the Long Night of Museums on the 5th of October 2024!
https://langenacht.orf.at/museum/bl/steiermark/li/volkskundemuseum-am-paulustor--universalmuseum-joanneum
A theater work in public space, a fictional radio broadcast on provenance research and restitution of looted Jewish property.
The project deals with looted art and everyday objects from former Jewish possession from the region. These objects and the personal stories surrounding them are the focus of a theater work in public space. Residents and visitors of the Salzkammergut are invited to deal with Nazi looting, provenance and restitution, with questions of loss, value and memory in a low-threshold way. At the weekly markets in Bad Aussee, Altaussee and possibly in other places in the Salzkammergut, a fictitious radio station will be set up during market hours to broadcast what appears to be a live program featuring these very narratives and also including what is happening at the market. The genre “entertainment broadcast” opens up a variety of possibilities to convey the topic with the necessary ease: Interviews, wish concert, live music, contact with people at the market, calls, competitions, but also interviews with experts and live guests, live broadcasts to the surrounding area, etc. The focus is always on the objects that were previously discovered and selected in the course of research. This approach enables the project team to deal with the topic of provenance in the region without pointing fingers. It relies on the power of personal narration and turns the looted objects into protagonists. At the same time, the expertise of the provenance researchers provides the project with an excellent scientific foundation. The project will be accompanied by a documentary filmmaker and documented and published in an independent and attractively designed publication. In addition to a thematic introduction and detailed object histories, a curated conversation with descendants of the Mautner family, among others, is planned, as well as a documentation of the Theater im Bahnhof performances. The publication is to be available at the conclusion of Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.
Juliette Eröd, Gabriela Hiti, Monika Klengel, Martina Zinner (performers)
Monika Klengel (director)
Monika Löscher, Birgit Johler (scientific support)
Johanna Hierzegger (set design)
Felix Klengel (musical design)
Helene Thümmel (graphic design)
Moke Rudolf-Klengel, Fritz Hierzegger (technology)
Christina Helena Romirer (production management)
Helmut Köpping (Outside Eye)
Eva Maria Hofer (Press relations)
Based on an idea by Monika Löscher
World premiere on 31/08/2024 from 10:00-13:00 at the Altaussee weekly market, Kurpark, Fischerndorf 61, 8992 Altaussee
Further performances:
05/09/2024 from 10:00-13:00 at the weekly market Bad Aussee, Chlumeckyplatz 1, 8990 Bad Aussee
06.09.2024 from 10:00-13:00 at the Altaussee flea market, Brunnermarkt, 8992 Altaussee
ATTENTION: CANCELLED : 14.09.2024 from 10:00-13:00 at the Kurhausplatz, 8990 Bad Aussee
Lisa Neuhuber, Martina Rothschädl (Head of Programme remembrance culture)
https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at/en/veranstaltungen/the-unheard-things/
The Theater im Bahnhof is a culture companion of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.
With the support of the BMKOES, Commission for Provenance Research
