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Take EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE EUROPEAN CAPITAL It is in the nature of things that the last word out a subscription. That way you’ll be sure on the programme of Linz09 has not yet been to keep up to date. spoken as this volume goes to press. Several LINZ 2009 more projects will still be added, many Have fun! WHOEVER SAYS LINZ SAYS CHANGE LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE PROGRAMME / LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE CONTENTS LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE SuNNY SIDE UP ................................................................................................................. 6 EVERYTHING StAYS DIffERENT ..................................................................................... 28 LINZ WELCOME ................................................................................................................ 34 The European Capital of Culture 009 bids you all a cheerful welcome. There are surprises in store for everyone, residents and visitors alike. LINZ CAPITAL .................................................................................................................... 50 Linz is a city with a history, with stacks of stories just waiting to be told. It has everything a European city needs and everything anyone could ask for in a European Capital of Culture. LINZ POWER ..................................................................................................................... 66 The Regional Assembly, the two town halls, dozens of banks, churches, antechambers and corridors of power: the powerhouses for the energy needed to get things done. LINZ JOURNEY ................................................................................................................. 82 There is so much to see here, so much that’s new and exciting; much to do, much to learn. So, leave your daily life behind, take up our invitation and join us on our travels. Remember, adventure shared is adventure doubled. LINZ WORLD ..................................................................................................................... 98 In 009 Linz opens doors between the known and the unknown. In 009 Linz builds bridges to countries near and far. In 009, Linz plays host to the world. LINZ MEMORY ................................................................................................................ 116 Soft and rich as velvet or jagged and angry as scars; memories can stunt your growth or make you glad to be alive. A city has memories too, and the same applies. LINZ KNOwlEDGE .......................................................................................................... 132 A city has to look out for itself; it can never be too curious, never have too much knowledge. It must keep its eyes open to the world beyond its borders. Cities are just like people, they have to become wise if they want to stay young. LINZ PASSION ................................................................................................................. 148 Linz09 puts the swing back into life. Zealous in all its aims, it will tread in the footsteps of the great or chase after new challenges of its own with equal zest. Passion is the watchword. Come to the fire and get warm. LINZ HOLIDAY ................................................................................................................. 168 Forget the red-letter days in your calendar. In 009 every day has got what it takes to break up the dull routine of everyday life. Any day can be a holiday. LINZ DREAMING ............................................................................................................. 184 A city must inspire dreams; a city must be capable of fulfilling dreams. Then and only then is it worth living in. Then and only then can it reach for the sky – and touch it. PROGRAmmE 08 / 09 ..................................................................................................... 206 LINZ09 PARTNERS ........................................................................................................ 218 LINZ SERVICE ................................................................................................................ 220 PROJECt INDEX ............................................................................................................ 226 LINZ09 TEAM ................................................................................................................. 228 ImpRINT ........................................................................................................................ 229 LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE SUNNY siDE UP BY MARTIN HEllER LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE We take delight in presenting to every capital of culture needs to businesses, politicians, the general you the second of three programme address: its own themes and those public: they are all invited to test books featuring Linz 009 of Europe as a whole. their mettle. European Capital of Culture. This city has quite a past to look This is why the phrase ‘peaceful Whoever says Linz says change. back on. An inconspicuous, state of exceptions’ is doing the likeable commercial town on the rounds here in connection with the Change needs images. To establish Danube. Then Hitler’s adoptive Capital of Culture Year. It’s a great beyond doubt what has changed. city. Then an industrial city with opportunity whichever way one Or how time passes. Or what else all the fallout and risks involved. looks at it, as a manoeuvring space, might be possible. And now: a city that is about to as a shop window facing inward as reinvent itself, on the lookout for much as outward. Every city is the sum of its images. new horizons. This is especially true of a Capital Opportunities are there to be of Culture, which must embrace The city has got what it takes. made use of. Take your pick change to justify the claims inhe- A great deal has changed for the from our programme, choose rent in its extravagant honorific. better already. The city and its what catches your fancy. From And it is well aware it has to work environs are among Europe’s playgrounds you are familiar with with images to publicise itself to most dynamic economic regions. and those where new experiences the world. Yet this does not stop us leading seem possible. Treat yourself to a rich and varied cultural life cultural weekends, limbering up Linz? Linz is the nucleus, the and enjoying an abundance of schedules, pop charts, stag nights, centre, the yolk in the middle of green space. girls’ nights out, assorted enter- the cultural egg. tainment, family tours, activity Whoever says Linz says culture, holidays of the cultural kind. The cover of the first programme industry and nature. book featured the picture of a navel And: Start booking! Now. Take (52% of the edition displayed a Which of these urban resources can your calendar in hand. Ladies and female navel, the rest a male). As the Capital of Culture build on? gentlemen, dear Linzers: forget a warning against mere provincial A great many. On different levels. those destinations under exotic navel gazing. And as a reminder of Linz09 sees itself as part of this skies, book yourselves into Linz what it means to be the navel of the process, as a project in the service and put a tick against whatever cultural world for a year. of sustainable urban development takes your fancy. Dear visitors and as a challenge and a driving from wherever: as you plan Irony and a light touch are called force for changes that are oriented your travelling schedule for 009, for. Or so we think. Particularly in towards the city’s future. make sure you include a stopover places normally ruled by pathos. in Linz or better still: make it your Where culture becomes a one- In other words: The programme, destination. This book and size-fits-all panacea – or even a which has already become an www.linz09.at will help you substitute for religion. object of attention, wrangling do just that. and delight in the run-up to 009, Between navel and egg a lot has will not exhaust itself in a festi- Now everything has been said that happened. The programme of val. Maintaining momentum is needs to be said in an introduction. Linz09 has become even more the watchword of the day, even The rest is Linz. And culture. The varied, more mature, more beyond the fascinating roll call yolk at the heart of the cultural egg. concrete. It is getting into its stride of events. For all who are invol- Sunny side up. in addressing the great themes ved. 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