Visit Me Soon in the Reading Room ...

In 2024, the Austrian Film Museum's 60th anniversary year, this invitation went out to a handpicked selection of readers who, independent from their extremely different activities – be they filmmakers, researchers, artists, curators or students – have something in common, namely a distinct passion for the "ancient" cultural technology of reading. In this series of short, pointed interviews, they provide information about their approaches to books, their research preferences, and their practices in the analog and digital galaxies of writing.
 
The series owes its title to a radio program broadcast in early 1988 on Sender Freies Berlin: Film historian and filmmaker Günter Peter Straschek formulated the request of "visit me soon in the reading room" to look into "experiences with material memory." Now, almost four decades after Straschek's investigation, the question here is also about the way these experiences with immaterial forms of memory are related.  
 
Idea: Elisabeth Streit Realisation: Tom Waibel
 

 

Lisl Ponger

February 24, 2024

 

Hanja Dämon

April 9, 2024

 

Karin Berger

April 12, 2024 

 

Manfred Neuwirth

April 18, 2024

 

Klaus Nüchtern

May 8, 2024 

 

Martina Nußbaumer

May 14, 2024 

 

Jennifer Lynde Barker

July 3, 2024 

 

Nikolaus Stenitzer

July 3, 2024 

 

Martin Reinhart

July 9, 2024

 

Joachim Dworschak

September 6, 2024

 

Vera Kumer

September 12, 2024

 

Sophie, Benjamin und Jakob

January 21, 2025