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About Linz:

It is without doubt a great moment in the history of Upper Austria’s capital: Linz – together with Lithuania’s capital Vilnius – is proud to be the 2009 European Culture Capital and, consequently, European Host City.

Linz’ year as Culture Capital started with a literally electrifying countdown on New Year’s Eve 2008/9: the 3-day opening festival kicked off with a “symphony of fire” that blended music, rhythm and colors into a unique visual and acoustic firework spectacle, and 500 choir singers who performed in Donaupark. The Culture Year comprises a total of 220 projects and an exciting support program full of highlights and attractions for all ages.

A City of Opportunities
In their programming, Martin Heller, artistic director of Linz09, and his team were focusing on Linz’ unique blend of industry, culture and nature. Austria’s largest industrial location the steel city of Linz has a population of 190,000 inhabitants and is the largest provider of employment in the region. The pristine Danube Valley, the Traun water meadows, and the Mühlviertel’s gently rolling hills are as much part of Linz’ identity as are its charming old town, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies and Ars Electronica, one of the world’s leading festivals for computer art.

Linz is all this and a lot more. It’s a city with an eventful history, with National Socialism as its darkest chapter and the economic boom of the last twenty years as its brightest. A city whose Present is characterized by a healthy self-esteem, and whose future will be defined by its programs and actions. For this reason being Europe’s Culture Capital is not just a momentary firework, it’s a milestone for the years to come. Dynamism and motion are the catchwords. It’s about arousing interest in the novel, about encouraging audacity. A Culture Capital that doesn’t venture will never gain.

Living Culture
In Linz, a former blue-collar city, culture is part of life and life is part of culture. In Linz music, drama, applied arts, movies are embraced by uncomplicated audience that is open to new ideas and ways. Culture is at home everywhere in Linz, be it the Ars Electronica Festival or the Museum of Future, Lentos, Bruckner Haus, Landestheater, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Upper Austria, Landesgalerie, Landesmuseum or Castle Museum, StifterHaus, the Festival of Regions or the Crossing Europe Film Festival. Art and culture is also at home on the city’s streets and squares, on the water and in the countryside.

Linz is in Europe. And in the air! To find out more about what’s happing in Linz visit www.linz09.at