Pflasterspektakel

The Pflasterspektakel is a multi-day street festival, held annually since 1987 in July in Upper Austria's capital Linz.

The Pflasterspektakel on the initiative of Siegbert Janko, then head of the city's cultural office, back that links to a meeting of local street artists organized a street party. The first Pflasterspektakel 1987 you had to look for the artist and still invite. Due to the encouraging response of the participants and the audience, the organizers were motivated to go on so that the festival continued to grow and today is considered one of the highlights in the European street art scene. 2005, in glorious weather came the first time, more than 250,000 visitors. In the twenty-first Pflasterspektakel in July of 2007, approximately 130 groups or individual performers on 600 players from over 40 different countries and attracted 200,000 visitors again. The 27th Pflasterspektakel took place between July 21, 2013 18.

The performances during the festival lasting for three days will take place at 40 locations in the city center of Linz, ranging from juggling and acrobatics to clowning and pantomime, from street music to the evening Samba parade and nightly fire shows. The final highlight in 2006 was a spectacular, late-night jam session consisting of several fire show groups whose acrobatic performance was accompanied by music from an electronic didgeridoo and live performance.

Each artist has three performance dates which are divided each morning in the festival headquarters daily. To avoid discrepancies in the admission, performers three numbers, a low, middle, and high. These numbers are called in turn, and choose the artists in the order corresponding to a free performance space and time. The festival is free of charge for visitors, but because the artists receive no salary but one grant for travel and accommodation, they are on " monetary applause " ( hat money ) instructed the audience.

Venues

The 40 gig courses are divided into five Pflasterspektakel worlds. The worlds are:

  • Old Town ( Dream World )
  • Taubenmarkt and highway (rhythm world)
  • Main Course ( World Fire )
  • Schiller Park and Highway ( color world )
  • Parish Place and Domgasse ( spectacle world)

In rainy weather, the venues are laid and the performances can take place in the dry. The main rain spectacle - places are the Taubenmarkt arcade, the Ursulinenhof, the Atrium shopping mall, the Passage Linz and the old town hall.

Occurrence times

The show runs from Thursday to Saturday. The festival starts on Thursday by 16 clock, on Friday and Saturday already by 14 clock. At each of the three days of the festival ends at 24 clock.

During the Pflasterspektakel the three trams ( driving on the highway ) short out and a replacement bus service between the main train station and bus stops Sonnensteinstraße.

Highlights

  • Samba parade: Friday and Saturday 21 to 22 clock
  • Fire Performance: daily at 21 clock in the main square, parish court, playground and Domgasse
  • Kaleidoscope nights: daily by 22 clock in the spectacle tent Pfarrplatz

Gallery

Bartels Living Statues "Bacchus", 19 Pflasterspektakel 2005

Trapeze artist Theaker of Ziarno from New Zealand, 19 Pflasterspektakel 2005

Close-up of the trapeze artist Theaker of Ziarno from New Zealand, 19 Pflasterspektakel 2005

Psalteria from the Czech Republic presents medieval music, 19 Pflasterspektakel 2005

Mime artist Honorarium
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