The Vienna Prater: A Place for Everyone

Werner Michael Schwarz; Susanne Winkler

Published by Birkhäuser 2024

The Vienna Prater

A Place for Everyone

Werner Michael Schwarz and Susanne Winkler

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035628715

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About this book

The new Prater Museum – the exhibition publication

At the center of the Wurstelprater amusement park, on the site of a former amusement arcade, the new Prater Museum, one of Vienna’s first public buildings to be constructed in wood, opens in 2024.

The role of the Prater park as a traditional place of leisure and amusement is a special focus of the Wien Museum. In addition to original objects – including carousel figures, parts of a ghost train, early slot machines, and Punch and Judy figures – the Prater collection includes plans, models, photographs, admission tickets, program booklets, posters, and works of art.

This book introduces the highlights of the more than 300 objects in the new Prater Museum. It deals with the big issues of modern life: the relationship between nature and city; man and animal; modern technology and the human body.

The catalog for the exhibition of the new Prater Museum of the Wien Museum, Vienna
Published together with the essay collection entitled Der Wiener Prater. Labor der Moderne to mark the opening of the new Vienna Prater Museum in March 2024
With numerous large-format illustrations

Author / Editor information

Susanne Winkler, historian and curator, Wien Museum, Vienna

Werner Michael Schwarz, historian and curator, Wien Museum, Vienna

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Pictures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
What Is the Prater? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Why “Wurstelprater”? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
A Place for Everyone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
The Green Prater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Animals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Technology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Movies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Body and Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Grand Theater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Hall of Fame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Prater Museum and the Prater Panorama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Readers interested in architecture, urban history and planning, urban culture, urban sociology, sociology of leisure, Vienna
Pages
- Main content: 128
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Coloured Illustrations: 142
Keywords: Prater (Vienna); exhibition catalog; architecture; urban history; urban planning; urban culture; amusement park; urban sociology

eBook

Published: April 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783035628715

Paperback

Published: April 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783035628579