Wien, Schwedenplatz. Variationen
according to a concept by Lucas Cejpek and Margret Kreidl
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Schwedenplatz in the center of Vienna, together with Morzinplatz, to which there is no visible demarcation, is one of the most important junctions of public transport, streetcars and subways cross here, buses depart for the airport. Bridges cross the Danube Canal, a boat station for the Twin City Liner to Bratislava was opened in 2010, and a redesign of the square to provide a better experience for pedestrians has been under discussion since 2011. On November 2, 2020, a terrorist attack was carried out here by a Viennese sympathizer of the Islamic State, on the eve of the 2nd lockdown to contain the Corona pandemic. The book "Vienna, Schwedenplatz: polyphon" is published by Sonderzahl Verlag and gathers encounters with and on this square, written by 106 Austrian or Vienna-based authors, written in prose or as poems, one page at a time: page by page a new linguistic square. 
The Ö1 Kunstradio production features excerpts from all the texts, which were recorded in the studio with four actors - as spontaneous text dialogues - and merge with sound recordings of the square and associative musical quotations to form an acoustic portrait of the square. Thomas Antonic, Bettina Balàka, Thomas Ballhausen, Christoph W. Bauer, Ruth Beckermann, Lucas Cejpek, Manfred Chobot, Ann Cotten, Julius Deutschbauer, Christoph Dolgan, Teresa Dopler, Stephan Eibel, Günter Eichberger, Sirka Elspaß, Tarek Eltayeb, Gustav Ernst, Antonio Fian, Erica Fischer, Harald Friedl, Christian Futscher, Petra Ganglbauer, Andrea Grill, Sabine Gruber, Waltraud Haas, Michael Hammerschmid, Bodo Hell, Wilhelm Hengstler, Peter Henisch, Wolfgang Hermann, Elias Hirschl, Christine Huber, Semier Insayif, Karin Ivancsics, Gerhard Jaschke, Konstantin Kaiser, Udo Kawasser, Nadine Kegele, Ilse Kilic, Josef Kleindienst, Markus Köhle, Margret Kreidl, Norbert Maria Kröll & Nina Herlitschka, Martin Kubaczek, Augusta Laar, Christina Maria Landerl, Marie Luise Lehner, Barbi Marković, Friederike Mayröcker, Elena Messner, Ursula Mihelič, Hanno Millesi, Lydia Mischkulnig, Anna Morawetz, Gertrude Moser-Wagner, Mathias Müller, Kurt Neumann, Florian Neuner, Barbara Neuwirth, Astrid Nischkauer, Thomas Northoff, Hannah Oppolzer, Martin Peichl, Peter Pessl, Gabriele Petricek, Judith Nika Pfeifer, Jörg Piringer, Teresa Präauer, Robert Prosser, Doron Rabinovici, Elisabeth Reichart, Angelika Reitzer, Sophie Reyer, E. A. Richter, Barbara Rieger, Katharina Riese, Hanne Römer, Tex Rubinowitz, Gerhard Rühm, Gerhard Ruiss, Nikolaus Scheibner, Ferdinand Schmatz, Stefan Schmitzer, Sabine Scholl, Eva Schörkhuber, Julian Schutting, Birgit Schwaner, Waltraud Seidlhofer, Lisa Spalt, Dieter Sperl, Karin Spielhofer, Thomas Stangl, Gisela Steinlechner, Marlene Streeruwitz, Claudia Tondl, Kristine Tornquist, Sylvia Treudl, Seda Tunç, Liesl Ujvary, Günter Vallaster, Richard Wall, Bernhard Widder, Fritz Widhalm, Herbert J. Wimmer, Daniel Wisser und Irene Wondratsch. Production: Ö1 Kunstradio 2023. |
