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15 November 2023
Vienna's cultural heritage presented with personalities from theater, film, music, journalism from 1900 to 1938 through an intervention in the Theatermuseum and online publication 'Walk of Fame'
Today, the publisher of Fashion.at, Karin Sawetz, saw the Facebook post of the University of Vienna about the upcoming intervention 'Walk of Fame. The Simultaneity of Success and Persecution' at the Theatermuseum, to be shown from November 16, 2023 to April 1, 2024 at the Palais Lobkowitz in Vienna with its own online publication https://walkoffame.theatermuseum.at/, an add-on to the intervention focusing on Jewish personalities in theater.
The reason why the university posted the information is that the Institute of Theater, Film, and Media Studies is involved in the project, which sheds light on the biographies of culture producers who have been almost forgotten. 'Walk of Fame' emerged from a course taught by Birgit Peter and Theresa Eckstein at the University of Vienna's Institute of Theater, Film, and Media Studies in the winter semester of 2022/23. The Theatermuseum director Marie-Theres Arnbom attended the course as a guest. The topic raised her interest to employ the university project for the museum. Students and teachers developed the idea, concept, designed and conducted the research, set the results in a historical context, selected the objects, created the graphic design, produced the texts including translation, and, together with the departments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Theatermuseum, coordinated and realized the intervention in the building of the Theatermuseum with a special add-on - an impressive online publication that proves that results of scientific research can be communicated in a lively way.
The German/English online publication on https://walkoffame.theatermuseum.at/ is inspired by the style of the magazine 'Die Bühne', founded in 1924. Readers can immerse themselves in the world between 1900 and 1938 through articles about representatives of Austrian culture such as Maria Gutmann, who was an actor, dramaturge, and one of the first female directors. The texts are written by students and teachers in the form of editorial articles from the perspective of the time when the portrayed had their greatest successes in Austria. The presentation of the work of the 14 personalities associated with Vienna's cultural heritage is continued on each page with information, including rare audio or video material, about their lives after 1938, overshadowed by the Holocaust and persecution.
In the Theatermuseum, the audience is encouraged to explore the stories on the 'Walk of Fame' through life-size pop-up portraits of the 14 personalities. The figures are equipped with QR codes, unlocking digital information on the elaborately designed website.
Image: Campaign image for the intervention 'Walk of Fame' from November 16, 2023 to April 1, 2024 at the Theatermuseum in Vienna. The collage shows the portrait of journalist, writer Else Feldmann, born 1884 in Vienna, died 1942 in the Sobibór death camp. Photo: Franz Xaver Setzer, 1938. © Archiv Setzer-Tschiedel / brandstaetter images / picturedesk.com. Grafik © KHM-Museumsverband, Theatermuseum.
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