Stadtwerkstatt Linz was invited by the city of Wiener Neustadt to design a flight show that addressed the complete destruction of the city by Allied air forces during World War II (1943) and told the story of aviation.

Wr. Neustadt was the center of a pioneering plane industry in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had one of the first runways on the continent, and later, during the Nazi regime, was one of the main producers of combat aircraft (Messerschmitt, Heinkel) for the German Luftwaffe.

Fate: the most air-struck area in Austria.
Irony: production went underground and was saved—the actual airfield is still a huge bunker covering square miles.
Civilian victims in the unprotected city: 30,000, thousands of bombed-out refugees, one of these was my five-year-old father…

Based on an idea by Georg Ritter , Peter Donke & Peter Hauenschild („artists choreographing combat planes“ :-), the concept included a 3-level sound environment .

My responsibility was to layout a radio show, which was broadcasted to small receivers, handed out to audience at the entrance. Weiterlesen →