We want to enchant people,” Carlus Padrissa explains his mission in Linz’s Donaupark. On the journey he has staged from the depths of the oceans to the vastness of space, the audience will meet eight pioneers in their field.
Most of them have already passed away, but they have left us a valuable legacy thanks to their courage to question what is given and their unwavering belief in their work: the icon of contemporary dance Pina Bausch, the physicist and ex-wife of Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric, painter Gustav Klimt, representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry Marie Curie, astronomer Johannes Kepler, electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, behavioural scientist Jane Goodall, who was the first to study wild chimpanzees, and biologist and whale researcher Roger Payne, who died only last year and who devoted himself, among other things, to the songs of humpback whales.
The subtitle of “Pioneers 52 Hz” pays tribute to his research work: sounds with a frequency of 52 hertz appear again and again in the deep sea and could come from a previously unknown species of whale. The marine mammals usually communicate at 42 hertz.
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Image: VOLKER WEIHBOLD
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