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46 siting futurity ever, because city council still had to officially approve the sale, he could be convinced to postpone the demolition until after the 1976 festival season. Enter the Schmetterlinge [Butterflies], a political folk-rock band who that summer debuted the perfect piece of musical theater to spark a summer of protest, the Proletenpassion. In setting to music the stories of the peasant wars in the wake of Luther’s Reformation, the French Revolution, the Paris Com- mune, the rise of fascism, and the need to resist contemporary consumer culture, the collective who created it, and the audi- ences who flocked to it, understood the piece as a political secu- larization of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passions.10 Very much in the spirit of Bertolt Brecht’s “Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters” [“Questions of a Reading Worker”] (Unger 2015, 12), the Pro- letenpassion begins with an overture entitled “Wer Schreibt die Geschichte?“ [“Who Writes History?”]: Wer schreibt die Geschichte? Jeden Morgen, wenn wir zur Arbeit fahren, wird eine neue Seite ins Geschichtsbuch geschrieben. Wer schreibt sie? Geschieht Geschichte mit uns? Oder machen WIR unsere Geschichte? Unsere Geschichte ist die Geschichte von Kämpfen zwischen den Klassen, eine wütende Chronologie. Doch gelehrt wird uns die lange Reihe von Kronen und Thronen, und über allem waltet ein blindes Geschick. Wenn wir so vieles nicht erfahren sollen — wer hat Interesse daran, daß wir es nicht wissen? Wenn so vieles nicht in den Lehrbüchern steht – wer will, daß es nicht gelehrt wird? of — to put it mildly — problematic machinations around the sale of the land to the Schöps company, those responsible at City Hall reacted with stonewalling and bullying behavior, which the Councillor the occupiers nicknamed ‘Mama Culture’ could not compensate for”] (Nußbaumer and Schwarz 2012a, 19). 10 Johann Sebastian Bach provided a number of Passions for Good Friday services in Leipzig and Weimar.
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Siting Futurity The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Title
Siting Futurity
Subtitle
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Author
Susan Ingram
Publisher
punctumbooks
Location
New York
Date
2021
Language
English
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
ISBN
978-1-953035-48-6
Size
12.6 x 20.2 cm
Pages
224
Keywords
activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
Category
Geographie, Land und Leute

Table of contents

  1. Preface 11
  2. Introduction 19
  3. 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
  4. 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
  5. 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
  6. 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
  7. 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
  8. 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
  9. 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
  10. Bibliography 189
  11. Filmography 215
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