Buildings and settlement structures of post-war architecture characterise the Ruhr region like hardly any other region in Germany. The interactive project mythen der moderne invites you to (re)discover the architecture of the 1950s on site with an audio walk. In the production conceived by Pia Janssen and literarily transformed by Bettina Erasmy, the apparently so different areas of architecture, literature and sound are brought together in a special listening place.

The pilot project for "myths of modernity" in Bochum around Viktoriastraße combines the stories from numerous interviews with the inhabitants into a voice-room. The starting point is the Pavilion, a striking 1950s building. Equipped with headphones, users go on tour. The resolution of the linearity of the time story is intended. Deposits from the history of the city can be experienced by hearing and are combined with contemporary perceptions from different perspectives.

Strolling between the times and on the streets and backyards of the Viktoriaviertel, the audio walker experiences directly how individual stories are condensed into a collective narrative: The voice of the city. It leads us through the streets, past the urban markings, lets us look behind the facades. The audio walker experiences an acoustic piece of urban and contemporary history that has been shaped by human traces.


Opening weekend: 23 and 24 June 2018, 4:00-10:00 p.m.

Finissage: 27 October.2018, 4:00-8:00 p.m.