Der Audioweg Gusen – Konstruktive Irritationen

Abstract

While a memorial was built on the site of the former Mauthausen concentration camp a few years after liberation, the Gusen concentration camp, just three kilometers from Mauthausen, disappeared almost completely from public consciousness - it was ground down. The audio path in Gusen is an art project by the artist Christoph Mayer, who grew up in St. Georgen an der Gusen and lives in Berlin, entitled "The Invisible Camp."  On an approximately 2.5-kilometer-long path, which partly leads through the housing estate, it not only conveys information about the concentration camps Gusen I and II, but also addresses the aftermath and how these places were dealt with. The article about the audio path discusses the mediation of history via media and points to new ways of reflecting on how to deal with Nazi history.