Die Brücke (The Bridge) is the first project of the Werner Fenz Scholarship by the City of Graz for Art in Public Space.

Its point of reference an event in contemporary history: during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, approximately 70,000 people fled across the Andau Bridge to Austria before it was blown up by the army. Fleeing people toppled the watchtower, which thus became a bridge. 

In the cabin of the fallen tower, the second issue of Novice iz Gozda is presented. This newspaper project references an illegally published Slovenian partisan paper, whose printing press still exists today hidden in the forest. The issue refers to the current Russo-Ukrainian War and was adapted for Die Brücke. In anonymous articles, Russian activists shed light on (im)possible strategies against the prevailing dictatorship.

"Die Brücke refers to historical acts of liberation and questions citizen agency in the present." (H. Zebedin)

The project is documented at https://fenz.mur.at.

Link

https://2022.steirischerherbst.at/en/program/events/3853/werner-fenz-stipendium