Eduard-Wallnoefer-Platz, Innsbruck, Tyrol, 2012 Initiated and designed by high-school students, the seven-meter Menorah, built 1997, commemorates the 1938 November Pogrom. Located in a square named after Tyrol’s governor, who was Nazi party member, Tyrol’s first public Holocaust commemoration simplifies the events by ignoring local academic research and using the stereotypical religious symbol. Eduard-Wallnoefer-Platz, Innsbruck, Tirol, …
The making of Leveled Landscapes A typical setup used for shooting the Leveled Landscapes project. Photographs in this series were captured with a Linhof large format camera and a custom-made* large plexiglass plate with embedded spirit level. The series captured landscapes with troubling histories throughout Austria between 2012 and 2014. *Level construction: Yuval Kedem “Galileo”, …
Stadtpark, Vienna, 2012 The story of Seibane Wague, Mauritanian physicist living in Austria since 1996, killed by the police and medical team on the night of July 15, 2003, during an African cultural event, is still missed at the park after his memorial was maliciously set on fire a week after his killing. Stadtpark, Wien, …
Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel, Vienna, 2012 Perhaps the most famous Viennese landmark, it was actually the Nazis who gave it its status after robbing it from its Jewish owner, Eduard Steiner, and murdering him in Auschwitz concentration camp, around 1944. This history is still absent from the Riesenrad’s official presentations. Das Wiener Riesensrad, Wien, 2012 …
Mösern / Seefeld, Tyrol, 2012 Here during the last days of WWII, in one of the Death Marches, around 1,700 Jewish prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp were brought by train, marched, starved, frozen, many murdered. Nowadays, many tourists arrive here especially for the well-organized hiking paths in the area. Mösern / Seefeld, Tirol 2012 …
The lake in Viehofen, St. Pölten, Lower Austria, 2012 The forced labor camp for Hungarian Jews during WWII, flooded under water of a quarry in the 1960s, and converted to a recreational area by St. Pölten, 2005. Its story surfaced partially the same year, thanks to writer Manfred Wieninger, followed by an art project by …
St. Stephen’s cathedral, Vienna, 2012 With 5.2 million visitors per year, the Stephansdom is Vienna’s most recognized symbol. It is also a symbol for the creation of the victim myths after WWII by disseminating a false narrative regarding its destruction during the last days of WWII. Stephansdom, Wien, 2012 Mit jährlich 5,2 Millionen Besucher_innen ist …
Western Cemetery, Innsbruck, Tyrol, 2012 Among other extreme right-wingers of the Pan-German student fraternity (Burschenschaft) Suevia, the monument for their dead honors SS member Gerhard Lausegger, who murdered the head of the Jewish community in Innsbruck, Richard Berger, during the November pogrom of 1938, and fled to Argentina after the end of the war. Westfriedhof, …