2018 ︎ Position Report - The Film
︎ HD-Video ︎ 23 min 30 sec
Position
Report – The Film
HD-Video, 201823 min 30 sec
The
video installation »Position
Report«
is
a continuation of Johanna Tinzl's audio play of the same name for the
exhibition project »Mission
W«,
which was realised in the Wienerwald on the edge of the 16th
district in 2015.
This forest area was the setting of an historical location connecting
the »cuckoo
woman«,
the »Nazi«,
and
other protagonists of Tinzl's participatory-acoustic intervention:
the so-called »Schirach
bunker«,
named after Reich Commander Baldur von Schirach, who promoted its
development.
As the centre of the »air raid warning system of the Ostmark«, the bunker was constructed underground in Gallitzinberg between 1942 and 1945. When the alarm »cuckoo, cuckoo« was heard on the radio before allied bombing raids on Vienna, that warning originated from here.
As the centre of the »air raid warning system of the Ostmark«, the bunker was constructed underground in Gallitzinberg between 1942 and 1945. When the alarm »cuckoo, cuckoo« was heard on the radio before allied bombing raids on Vienna, that warning originated from here.
The only demonstrable function of the
system of tunnels extending 26 metres deep into the ground was as the
district control centre and a place of refuge for the topmost cadre
of National Socialists when danger threatened from the air. Today,
its architecture can only be reconstructed on the basis of the
original plans, which are kept in Vienna's municipal and state
archives. Johanna Tinzl's audio play uses a soundtrack to guide
visitors exploring the site along a specific path, which corresponds
to the sequence of rooms in the »Schirach
bunker«,
invisible on the surface.
Text:
Günther Dankl
—Sound Production
Florian Pfaffenberger
—Speaker of The Nazi
Michi Strasser
—Speaker of The women of the cuckoo
Barbara Kapusta
—Speaker of The news girl
Eva Engelbert
—Speakers of The girl's choir
Veronika Barnaš, Gabi Edlbauer, Elisabeth Greinecker, Marlene Hausegger, Martina Kigle, Eva Seiler, Johanna Tinzl
—Speaker of The American soldier
Nicholas Hoffman
—Speaker of The radio announcer
Florian Pfaffenberger
Florian Pfaffenberger
—Speaker of The Nazi
Michi Strasser
—Speaker of The women of the cuckoo
Barbara Kapusta
—Speaker of The news girl
Eva Engelbert
—Speakers of The girl's choir
Veronika Barnaš, Gabi Edlbauer, Elisabeth Greinecker, Marlene Hausegger, Martina Kigle, Eva Seiler, Johanna Tinzl
—Speaker of The American soldier
Nicholas Hoffman
—Speaker of The radio announcer
Florian Pfaffenberger
—Camera
Katrin Hornek
—Performers
Position Report - Radio Play and sculptural intervention︎︎︎
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