Corona in Vienna:
A Collection Project on the History of the City
How will future generations know what the Corona crisis meant for Vienna? Digital formats come and go – objects remain.
On 25 March 2020, the Wien Museum launched an appeal to collect and asked for references to objects that tell of the changed private or professional lives in the times of Corona. In a first step, digital photos of the objects were collected. By the end of June 2020, more than 2,300 entries with over 6,000 picture suggestions had reached us; a selection of 235 photos can be seen here.
In June 2020, after the end of the first corona lockdown, the second phase of the project started, in which selected objects were also physically transferred to the collection of the City of Vienna, which is administered by the Wien Museum. Curator Martina Nußbaumer and Anna Jungmayr, Curatorial Junior Fellow at the Wien Museum, viewed the objects according to the following criteria, among others: Does the object have a concrete reference to Vienna? Does it tell a representative and socially relevant story about the Corona crisis? Can its material properties be permanently preserved? At the same time, the personal stories that the owners relate about their objects are also documented.
The selected objects were stored in the museum's depot and thus secured for posterity as well as future exhibitions, publications, and research. Furthermore, there is the ongoing possibility to send photos of your "Corona objects" to wien2020(at)wienmuseum.com. Please, convey what these things mean for you. (By sending the photos to us, you give your consent for the publication of the images by the Wien Museum).
You can see a selection of the submitted photos here:
Anna Kulovits: ”My brother Simon Kulovits designed the ”Captain Hook-hook“ form me. It’s quite functional: you can use it to shut the apartment door, turn on the light in the hall, call for the elevator, or press the door handle. All without touching anything.“
Petra Paul, FLYING ABJECT, masks, plaster, photography, 2020
Werner Harrer: ”Banner: Leave No-one Behind“
Martina Greiner-Lebenbauer, MA: ”During the first weeks of the lockdown, my two daughters (14 & 17) and I wrote and drew our thoughts on this poster. For us, it was a kind of mental hygiene. It’s still hanging up.”
Ursula Kunodi: ”Riding the subway in times of Corona“
Zita Breu: ”A different kind of May 1st“
Andree Vollmers: „Drive-In... to date, we only knew it from fast food restaurants! Now, those in system-relevant professions can get tested that way.“
Quirin Gerstenecker: „On the stage and in the auditorium, distance and hygene rules apply. Face masks only need to be worn backstage. The audience (100 people at the most) can remove masks in their seats.“ © Lukas Beck / Wiener Konzerthaus & Wiener Symphoniker
Idea/Design: Reese Sunrise, Photo: Nora Gutwenger: „Spelled backwards, the word CORONA is: anoROC. anaROC can be worn as a skirt, is practical as a backpack, and is clearly discernable to others as a distance-hack.“
Harald Lorenz: ”Fear of a repeat closing due to Corona at ”Wiener Gasthaus“, Vienna’s 9th district."
Harald Lorenz, Saussage Stand "Leo" in Vienna’s 19th district
Walpurga Spitzer: ”I rendered my WhatsApp-correspondence with my hiker friends, at-risk group 70+ and 80+, in images.“
Anonynous: ”The pool at our building is opening again – with new rules.“
Sonja Moller: ”My completed Corona-calendar. I hope I will never need SUCH a calendar again. Drawing such a daily box felt good, though.“
Harald Lorenz: ”Taken at the Hernalser Hauptstraße, corner of Römergasse.“
Stefanie Thurner: ”Discovered while ”airing out“ at the Danube Canal.“
Stefanie Thurner: ”On the way to or from work.“
Susanne Ciesciutti: ”Music’s here again. The stage is coming back!“
Christof Klech: ”This song diary documents our daily meetings, which quickly became a fixture for the whole neighborhood. This is how we got into conversation with people we had only ever met in passing, but never really knew.”
Anonymous: ”These posters can be seen along the cycling path on the Danube Canal in the city center. Unfortunately the website "revolte.blackblogs.org" never opened, I would have liked to read the background of the information.“
Gülay Kadam: ”Donauparkbahn (Danube Park Tram) – every other seat is cordoned off.“
Robert Wiesner: Rochuskirche, ”The unholy is among us”.
Daniel Schmidt: ”Back at the ‘second living room‘ after a forced break of two months – if under the rubric of ‘safe hospitality‘.“
Oleksandra Stehlik: ”The German language has changed greatly during the times of Corona- I had to translate several words I hadn’t know. That’s how the idea came about to turn those notes into a proper Covid 19-dictionary.”
Andree Vollmers: ”Vienna was not only recently voted the greenest city in the world, thanks to Corona, the forest of signs is growing all over the city as well, taking on grotesque qualities …“
Steffi: „I was never gone, having worked continuously since March 16, 2020 (no home office possible), but I am still happy about this nice morning greeting!“
Family Schönhofer: ”Despite the ”lockdown“ we can have a good games night with our Grandpa in Lower Austria via Skype. Uno works really well.“
Lisa Gruber: ”My "collage" of the hamster purchases in mid-March: panic attack and despair over the lack of toilet paper are captured in my piece along with the Wuhan shake and sneezing into the crook of my arm – among many others.“
Co: Nestor Reschbach Steyn: “Nestor, six years old, turns the Corona poetry assignment into a rap.“
The distance between us © Gregor Kallina
Verena Kaspar-Eisert and Thomas Geretschläger, Poto: Angelika Krinzinger, Wedding in times of Corona
Thomas Giller/Giller&Co: ”Attached are some impressions from my barber shop during the times of Corona.“
Richard Myska: ”I think this is great! Seen at the Hofer branch on Linzer Straße in Vienna’s 14th district.“
Jess Martin: “This message my neighbor hung from their window seemed to be a political response to what the effects of enforcing hard borders on refugees has, in contrast to the cosier lockdown experience of many Vienna residents.”
Anette Ravens: Banking information
Martha Hurley and David Graves: “This image is to sincerely thank the health care and service workers who kept working to allow the rest of us to stay home and social distance to try and limit the damage caused by the corona virus.”
Marianna Karakasidou: Announcement for a Corona concert
Richard Myska: “Reopening of the playground Wienerberg in Vienna’s 10th district, inclucing a personal Thank You from the “Team Wienerberg of the Vienna’s municipal office of forestry (MA49),” which I consider particularly nice.”
Anita Berki: “My favorite sausage stand, near the U6 subway stop Währingerstraße/Volksoper – a very nice variant of the baby elephant, in my opinion.”
Rudolf Fric: “Mixed police double on the hunt for Corona sinners.”
Franz Waldner: “How quickly a business idea was implemented in times of crisis.”
Ilse Prenner: “These drawings are hanging on a fence of a kindergarten I often pass and that’s closed because of Corona. I find them very charming and reassuring.”
Daniel Schmidt: “The main train station was totally plastered with these notices. No parties!”
Sebastian Schwager: “This was my "ticket" to the provisional triage room of the AKH, Vienna’s General Hospital (in disinfected and monitored containers in front of the hospital’s main entrance).”
Birgit Kager: „A sign on the cemetery gate, clearly put there by a prankster. Typical Viennese humor - a true Viennese does not go down, not even in Corona times! ;-)“
Richard Myska: Requireing distance at the park
Demonstration against Corona virus restrictions and measures imposed by the government – Albertinaplatz © Luca Faccio / Bildrecht
Helmut Pokornig: Line in front of Textil-Müller at Stumpergasse
Pia Pfeifer: „A Corona cake I baked. Of course the virus is no cause for celebration, but there’s always room for cake – and expunging the virus by eating it was fun;).“
Helmut Pokornig: Italian Restaurant in Vienna’s 8th district, Piaristengasse 50, April 10, 2020
Norbert Steiner: Sign at Coffee Junkie in Vienna’s 5th district
Gerli Metz: „It's my birthday. Because my godchild Elisa is not allowed to see and hug me on my birthday, she sent me a hug by mail. I loved it.“
Anonymous: „(Online) Dinner 2020… „a good meal can (still) bring people together“. Socrates.“
Barbara Nebl: „The playgrounds are empty during the crisis. They are closed and cannot be used. The scouts make the best of it. They call for a hunt of the viruses.“
Alfred Peter: Entrance of a Physican’s Office
Captain Michael Buchanan: „Here is the reality at Austrian Airlines:flying cargo on a passenger aircraft. Bringing emergency medical supplies to Austria from China on the Boeing 777!”
Oliver Lehmann: „Here the photo of a note at the door of a brothel in my neighborhood (Asien Girls, Mittersteig 8, Vienna’s 5th district). It hangs there since March 23.“
Thomas Wawris: „The scouts of Group 31 - Stadlau (Vienna’s 22nd district) gather for an Online-Home Meeting."
Anonymous: Shop Window of a Tailor at Gumpendorfer Straße, Vienna’s 6th district
Clara Pavicsits: „As a climate activist, the fight against the climate crisis occupies me even more than before the Corona crisis. This is a photo from my banner for the online climate strike on 24.04.2020.“
Franziska Marhold: „When the digital climate strike was called, my sister and I hung a sign on the balcony. Later, a similar one hung in the window of the neighbors – a beautiful moment of community and solidarity in times of crisis.“
Olivia Baniqued: „Quarantine – self-help chart: A small placard on which I collected every idea – for the case quarantine got so boring, you even ran out of ideas about what to do with yourself. Most of the things we actually ended up doing."
Sigrid Karpf: „We connect neighbors across districts with folks who are in need of assistance. Our helpers do the shopping, pick up medicine from the pharmacy, walk dogs, and place telephone calls to combat loneliness. They’ve been on the road for 5 weeks.“
Tanja Prušnik: „I used the time in seclusion for an art project with contemporary relevance. I have been involved with origami for a while. Napkins were an obvious choice because of their relation to faces that need to be covered. Each of the Readymades is unique.“
Elvira Franta: „Horse-drawn cart with the signs "Out of service" and "exercise ride". A very sad sight – one of our greatest landmarks without guests.“
Verena Henneberger: „My roommates and I sewed masks and added the hashtag #leavenoonebehind. Even with the ban of assemblies and the impossibility of demonstrations, we want to draw attention to the plight of refugees.“
Anonymous: Who kills whom now
Thomas Lasnik: Notice in a shop window on Stephansplatz
Michael Kofler: „In times of Corona, friends can’t come to the birthday party, but the important companions are there, nonetheless: fox Wui, rabbit Lili, whale Wali, and panther Noah.”
Klemens Himpele, Head Vienna Municipal Department 23 – Economy, Labor, and Statistics: Visitor Arrivals in Vienna compared to same same month in previous years
Pernica Miroslav: "The photo shows the perspective of a student in home office. The dots are individual screen pixels from the monitor that we look at all the time when we work with the computer during home office".
Dvora Barzilai: Chief Cantor Shmuel Barzilai praying in Vienna’s empty synagogue. Community members can participate via live stream - one of the many services offered by the city’s Jewish community organization during the Corona crisis.
Gertrude Mayerhofer: „We found this note behind our windshield when we came back to the car after a walk. Three other cars with Viennese license plates has similar notes. We were shocked.“
Andree Vollmers: Banner „Neighborhood in solidarity“
Ursula Adam, Vienna Employment Promotion Fund: „The sharp rise in unemployment and the slump in employment figures at the end of March has brought us a labor market report of a kind we have never seen before.“
Florian Kobler: Ad of Vienna’s public transit authority
Richard Myska: a new pictogram in the subway
Anonymous: „The most incomprehensible thing about the Corona period is the closure of the national parks. The rich have gardens, go on trips by car. The poor persevere in a 300 square foot-apartment and are made to wiggle around each other on the sidewalks of Vienna.“
Heidrun Kubart: „A photo that describes the current situation for coming generations in the words of a Viennese heart. Taken in front of the Augarten, which, as a national park, is closed.“
Dr. Martina Gredler: A dentist office in Vienna
Valentina Neugebauer: „In order to visit someone in the hospital these days, you have to go through a Corona check in a container set up in front of the building. This is the permission I got that allowed me to enter the hospital.“
Fecilitas Freise: „In an apartment building in Vienna’s 8th district, there apparently lives a ‘concerned citizen’.”
Uwe Rustenbeck Photography: "In front of the Allianz Stadium in the part of Vienna’s 14th district called Hütteldorf, the Dionys Schönecker statue wore a mask on Easter Monday. The adage in the background is timeless, but seems to be especially true right now."
Lydia Rössler: Banner in Brigittenau, Vienna’s 20th district
Neighbourhood Otto Probst Settlement: „A project of the children at the Wienerberg settlement in Vienna’s 10th district. I find it a creative, delightful idea and the snake grows daily.“
Anonymous, Prayer and Hope, Main Entrance, St. Stephen’s Cathedral
Barbara Zauner: „Here is my contribution on the topic of "home office with children." Niklas and Jakob are 6 and 8 years old and find Mama's tele conferences only half as exciting as Mama does herself. So I stuck this note for them on the living room door.“
Franz Reisinger, Home quarantine diary
Anna Turnheim: „An Easter present: 24 self-made cloth masks, modeled after surgical masks, for the great nursing staff at a hospital in Vienna’s 6th district! Only for private use, of course, when they have a day off.“
Julia Rhinehart Photography: „My son and her grandma, separated by a window at Easter because of the Corona crisis.“
Lydia Rössler: „I get to know the shops in my neighborhood anew, from lovable to quirky information about the closings.“
Walter Kuhn: „Arranged spontaneously via Facebook, a Sunday morning get-together with beer and sparkling wine on March 29, 2020 in the courtyard of our residential building – with strict attention to social distancing.“
Kollektiv uborz: A hotel on the Gürtel turns on the lights of particular rooms every night :)
Emese Sagi: This couch was the first humorous thing I encountered during the first week the restrictions were put in place. Location: Linke Wienzeile, in front of the Schmauswaberl pub - perhaps a work of the regulars.
Michael Tripolt-Felch: The gif "Isolation Day3" describes my feelings at the beginning of the isolation period; my surroundings in Ottakring are only blocks of houses and concrete deserts.
Lucas Ditl: I teach art at the HLTW13 Bergheidengasse. Here is a work my student Lea Benkovits created in the course of the e-learning program. One of the topics was concrete poetry.
Anonymous: Since March 14, I keep a diary to document the situation. It is all so surreal. Written by hand, with additional notes, I also include the menu for a complete week.
Anna Bolovich: This is a drawing by my grandson Thomas Bolovich. It shows how he sees the COVID-19 virus and how he believes he can fight it. He sent me the picture because I work at the AKH (Vienna’s largest hospital) and spend many hours there every day.
Angelika Czedik-Eysenberg: „Homeroom 2A of Mittelgasse School regularly receives reading sheets with texts in which class mascot Valentin, a stuffed elephant, reports about his life. As a mother, this reading sheet almost moved me to tears.“
Lisa Höller-Tesar: „I teach at the Bernhardthal elementary school of. During online lessons, the children had the task to draw a picture of spring. My student Halid sent me his "Spring Through a Keyhole.“
Peter Stuiber, Banner at the intersection Burggasse/Schottenfeldgasse/Zieglergasse
Eva Kern: Spotted during one of the daily Corona rounds.
Gregor Rührer: Who is Mr. Josef? A mannequin who gathered dust on the living room shelf until the beginning of the Corona crisis. Mr. Josef is very grateful to the virus. Mr. Josef is now allowed to do a lot of things in the apartment.
Manfred Gaderer: I can't think of any other subject at the moment: I, myself, with the fear and the threat (elderly person)
Robert Wiesner: "Mini-Procession around the Church of the Carmelites, Father Denis Cardinaux, accompanied by a videographer."
Regina Targyik: Austrian restaurant culture during the times of Corona
Chri Pri: House of Hope - Social Bazaar is a non-profit project run by volunteers with and without refugee background. Now help comes from those who were helped, benefitting the residents of the 23rd district.
Thomas Frieß: Even though we can't meet, we do a video call every day across three generations. It took many, many hours for grandfather to get the necessary apps onto his computer via remote telephone support.
Christof Stein & Elisabeth Gottfried: We have converted a notebook into a “house quarantine diary,” the so-called "keep-writing-book,” which we let circulate among the fascinating characters of our building.
Astrid Hrdina: When the kid sits in front of the tablet all day, you have to find new indoor hobbies...preferably something meditative like cross stitch to recover from the dramas of home schooling.
Eva Cil: Information from the police, handed to me by a friendly policewoman on March 20, 2020, when I tried to enter Hubertusdamm via Überfuhrstraße on my bicycle. I had to turn around.
Uschi Gross: This sticks to the entrance to my local supermarket in Ottakringer Straße. When I see it, I always have to smile, I and try to convey this to the employees - despite the mask!
Margit Berger: On March 26, 2020, I was greatly worried about the economic and social consequences the corona virus will likely have. What will be different? Where will there be losses for us afterwards? Will my modest pension be enough?
Nora Rath Hodann: Corona Easter eggs made by my uncle Norbert Mlekusch for his Easter bush.
Diana Köhle: The content of my purse BEFORE (left) & DURING (right) the times of Corona
Harald Lorenz: A guitarist and singer in the „Corner Window“ of the 2nd floor, who attracts an audience of several dozen (with plenty of distance, of course) just about every day. (Corner of Döblinger Hauptstraße /Sommergasse
Kristine Tornquist: I found this illustration of the prescribed meter while walking in Dietrichsteingasse - painted with circles on the street.
Susanne Scholl
Peter Feermann & Esther Zahel: The Social-Distancing-Tutu enables people to participate in public life again and to keep the safety distance of 1.5 meters. It is foldable, so you can easily fit through any door.
Clara Kaufmann: Four models of masks optimized to fit me as someone who wears glasses. The best is the model in which I have incorporated the metal strip from a stapler around the top, thereby fitting the mask perfectly on the bridge of the nose.
Beatrix Sadler: The carpet was started a few years ago. However, the work was left unfinished for several years. During the corona epidemic, I had the time and leisure to complete it.
Nicole: A lovely idea by the little neighbor
Anonymous: Johannes-von-Gott-Platz, Vienna’s 2nd district. Across from the main entrance of the Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder (Hospital of the Merciful Brothers). Johannes von Gott (1495-1550), Founder of the Order of Merciful Brothers.
Monika Schneider–Gervautz: Salvatorgasse 12, Vienna’s 1st district
Clemens Eichinger: Multilingual sign at the Schubertpark, Vienna’s 18th district
Sonja Moller: My calendar works like this: Every day we (my daughter and I) paint a box, and when the restrictions to fight the virus are over....... then a big colorful picture will have emerged as a sign of hope!
Martin Haidl-Bitai and Family: On the first weekend we decided to change the regular class schedule to a class schedule for "Covid-19 home schooling". Since Week 2, it really works better.
Nora Rath Hodann: How does the virus get into the body? My daughter has kept a diary in which she drew a sketch explaining the infection.
Olaf Osten, Pendeln 247 / Wien, Neue Welt (Vienna, New World) / Colored Pencil on Pocket Calendar / 2020, “My documentation consists of a series of drawings of my kitchen window – I frequently sit there now.”
Richard Myska, Banner alon the trail on the Wienerberg
The 48ers (Municipal Office of Waste Disposal): Since, Wednesday April 1, 2020, 70 of Vienna’s garbage trucks feature the slogan “OptiMIST” (a play on words, combining the word “Mist,’” i.e. waste with the word “optimist”). Waste disposal functions just as reliably during Corona.
Alexandra Feldhofer, „Afternoon chat of little Paula with Flora, her neighbor, on the terrace.“
Alex Kaliwoda, „Prayer Room, Embelgasse, Vienna’s 5th district. Ein strong sign of sensitive awareness and lived integration.“
Franz, „Pass that was issued to me the day before yesterday after being checked at the entrance to KH Nord (Hospital North). It enabled me to be present at the birth to our daughter.”
Hermine Jira, „My son made this appended handle for the front entrance with a 3D printer. Now people don’t have to grab the buckle with their hands.“
Irene Knobloch, Pass
Marie-Teres Aebi, „With this one-minute drawing, my eight-year-old daughter Joséphine expressed her frustration during dinner on two pieces of scrap paper. But we will beat Corona: "Stao" - Ciao! May it be such!“
Elisabeth Kuntner, „I had my birthday on March 27. Until now, there always a party. I had one this year as well, but using my daughter’s toys. A party scene with good friends in times of Corona.“
Helmut Stemmer, Sonja Macher, MA and her students at the junior high school Leibnizgasse - part of the EduMakerSpace Project, Favoriten
Laetitia Blahout, „Me and my grandma knitting masks. (We live together).“
Markus Pitzer, „A photo showing my wife's hand and mine. My wife tested positive for the Corona virus. I have not been tested because I have no symptoms. Even after 2 weeks of quarantine I’m doing very well.“
Sabina Lorenz, „A poem on the sidewalk of Felix Mottl Straße in Vienna’s 19th district.“
Helga Pasch, „When I came into the hallway, I found this note on the floor. My son had come to bring me food. He asked me - through the closed door - to go back to my room until he was gone.“
Johannes Seiweth, Helping Neighbors
Klaus Wolfinger, „It is not easy to keep track of the many assignments for school. My son (2nd grade elementary school) has created this sheet. FSA stands for „freies selbständiges Arbeiten“ ("free independent work“).”
Bernhard Peball, Covid-19 Test
Anonymous: Corona-Hotline-Display on Rathausplatz
Georg Wagenhuber: „Since the corona virus has been "going around" with the associated measures changing our everyday life, I have been preoccupied by the term SOCIAL DISTANCING. As an illustrator, I naturally have to "process" it figuratively.”
Gloria Imelda Hohl: "Social distancing with lots of toilet paper and plenty of pasta should be fun, too".
Michael Staringer, „I'm Viennese and I'm in Florida with my husband Gordon. I flew there on the last plane. While in self-isolation, we found the box of a Sachertorte. Vienna now feels even farther away than usual.“
Katharina Waissenberger, „The moment when you realize you’ll have to walk around with masks in the future, and the first ones were carelessly thrown on the floor.“
Doron Rabinovici, „This rope is my new household remedy to help me jump from one sentence to the next. I stay home while remaining on the go."
Anette Lammel, "A hand-written letter for a person without Internet access. Help against lonliness."
Irene Gottlob, "My daughter work as aphysician with COVID 19 patients in London. Since she did not get an adequate protective mask in hospital, she ordered this waterproof maks online."
Mira Neumayer, Disinfectant in an orange juice bottle, plastic, 7 x 17cm, gold pen on paper, "I wrote "disinfection" with a golden pen on the label. In gold, because "it's so prescious and important now."
Oksana Stavrou, "For her art class, our daughter has been given the task of creating a booklet for each week documenting her experiences during the Corona period. For us, these pictures books are part of the everyday life during Corona
Andreas Januskovecz, „Covid-19-Impressions from Areas under the administration of Municipal Department 49“
Andreas Januskovecz, „Covid-19-Impressions from Areas under the administration of Municipal Department 49“
LONGFIELD GOSPEL CHOIR
Franz Karl, „My wife teaches at a junior high school. The sudden closure of the school meant that a solution had to be found quickly in order to continue teaching mathematics to the pupils. Together we created explanatory videos, which were well received.”
Michael Hummel, „The rules in the time of the corona virus are pointed out everywhere. Basically, (almost) everyone follows them. But there are people among us who just don’t care. No words. But I’m curious who’ll have to clean up?
Ursula Storch, „There is a large, paved area in the park, where I often see chalk drawings by kids, often for games the children play. This time, it must have been an adult who put a Corona message there.“
Bernhard Münzenmayer-Stipanits, „Last Saturday, my husband found this on the fence of the Yppenheim, which is opposite the U6 Josefstädter Straße on the way out of town.“
Eva Giller, Family Rules
Peter Stuiber, Banner in Vienna’S 6th district
Ewa, Birthday Wishes
Anonymous, „A drawing that my girlfriend painted with her daughter on the sidewalk below my window. She also brought me a bag of small gifts and a cake to cheer me up during my quarantine.“
Jackie Wulf, Line in front of the Municipal Office of Finance in Vienna
Philipp Lindner, „March 20, 2020, one of the first really warm spring days. A couch in the middle of Rustensteg in the Vienna’s 15th disctrict. I don't know who put it there and if it was used.“
Marion Gebhart: „The federal gardens, like the Augarten, must be opened. Rest needs space.“
Ilse Groschedl, „Our picture shows a rainbow that we made together as a family and hung on the window. When people go for a walk with their children they can see that there are other children who have to stay at home.“
Julia Kasper: „My contribution is probably self-explanatory - at least for all those who also work from home currently and must/may take part in video conferences.“
Nicole, Rainbow-Action
Kerstin Thoma, Store at the corner of Buchengasse and Reumannplatz
Barbara Halapier, “I miss my grandchildren very much. So that we can have some fun together while we are skypeing, I have made some figures from the books " Die drei Stanisläuse ". Every few days we now have the Stanislaus-Theater via Skype.“
Katharina Karner, „My son is learning to write and suffers from not being able to see his grandparents. In order to be able to "send" letters to them from home we have built our own mailbox.“
Nicole Berger-Krotsch, „Lived Solidariy“
Reinhard Bührle, „A menu for several days: The menu follows what’s available at home.”
Renate Mowlan, „I’m sending you one of my ‘We’re staying at home – Corona comics’. I add new ones every day.
Christine Pichlhöfer, „… ‚Things to give away’ in a Vienna apartment building. Books, magazines, board games, DVDs – new in this exchange bag: toilet paper, which was gone in an hour.”
Gustav Macek, "Photos of the state on March 13 -- then the fire department yelled "Iron" and the curtain didn't go back up for a long time."
Susanne Fabian, „I provide my over 70 year old neighbour with freshly cooked food. Handed over at the windowsill in the corridor, door-to-door conversations, one of his greeting cards as a thank you.“
Ömer Faruk Bağ, „Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: ‘And art has done nothing but show us the confusion in which we usually find ourselves. Under this motto I wrote this poem, which documents and reflects the Corona times.”
Lea Schafette: „To retain some structure in a time of voluntary isolation, we created this timetable. It keeps up from drowning in procrastination, and we (almost) always stick to it.”
Stefanie Irsigler & Moritz Wohlleb, „Title & Part of the work are the toilet paper hysteria discussed on the Austrian news as well as the repeated invocations of creativity and solidarity. With reference to the work of the artist Maurizio Cattelan to refer to the time before Covid19.”
Christine Strahner, „The street art scene is reaction with verve. Seen at the Danube Canal at Schottenring, Rossauer Brücke, Vienna’s 2nd district”
Wolfgang Müller, Meeting of Vienna’s government on March 17, 2020
MUCH: „My proposal for a Corona column. Published in ‘Die Alternative’.”
Angelika Kantor: A Jar of Corona beans
Cathi Schmögner: „A letter from my 8-year old daughter Valentina to her teacher. She shares some concerns and thoughts in moving ways. Romea happens to be the teacher’s cat, and Ferdi is the class mascot.”
Anonymous: A sign from the municipal park office for all playgrounds during the times of the Corona epidemica.
Herbert Unger, 2120 Obersdorf: „….written on a Corona typewriter from 1922 … we’ll make it!”
Manuel Golditsch: „…. So, starting on Sunday, March 15, I have played a song every day at 6pm. I play for my neighbors who get to choose the song. The motto: ‘Life may not be a whishing well, but sometimes it plays your favorite song’.”
Mike Knell: It reminds me that in addition to all the thousands of people working hard and doing their best to help out in a crisis there are always a few people who see a crisis as just an opportunity to make a quick buck out of peoples’ fears.
Nathalie Großschädel
Ness Rubey: The accessories of the year
Peter Geitenauer, Banner
Daniela Bartok, „Analog games mean a lot to me (…) there was always too little time. Now we have a lot of fun playing them and make it a daily part of our activities.”
Markus Hofstätter, „I work on art projects that deal with Covid19. To do so, I use a photographic process that’s 170 years old. The safety measures are the same we use against the spread of Covid19.”
Peter Hlustik, „The first everyday object that came to my mind was saran wrap. I now occasionally wrap chocolate and cigarette packs in it, which I throw over Strozzigasse onto the balcony of my neighbor across the street.”
Renate Renard, Sandvieh-Cartoons on the topic of mouth guards/facial masks
Sabrina Halkic, „In the times of Corona and social distancing, a new form of meeting has developed – “fensterln” (‘windowing’). Friends come by to chat during their walks.
Zsuzsi Szilagyi, Photo from Kaisermühlen, Vienna’s 22nd district
Alexandra Djokic, „My attempt at tipping food delivery people at a social distance. At least twice a week, I order from small restaurants I like to go to, hoping they will still be there after the crisis.”
Anonymous, „A note in our elevator.”
Anna Maria Wiesinger: My daughters are 4 and 6 years old, and the board helps us to structure the long days at home and to track the assignments for ‘home schooling’.
Herta Wagner, „My mother lives in a retirement home. Because of two cases of Corona virus at the home, it was placed under quarantine. When we delivered things to her, my mother surpised us with this sign.”
Jelena Guacin, „Work doesn’t stop during the Corona cricis for the editorial team of a television station. But small adaptions, like saran wrap on a microphone, do show that much has changed.”
Hanns Martin Pfefferle, „I am in a long-distance relationship with a man in Vienna, and because we can’t see each other in person, I’m using this book to plan the things we can see together when I can fly to Vienna again.”
Matthias Trittner, „Because of the quiet on the playground, a fox came by. It’s happened on several days during the Corona crisis!”
Petra Bacher, „Photo of a ‚Help-Fence’ – a project, that moved me greatly!” Taken on March 22, 2020, Siebensterngasse/-Park, Vienna’s 7th District
Martin Dvorak, „To not loose laughter is especially important in these times! I put this note on the black board to remind to laugh and live for one another.”
Birgit and Peter Kainz, Only flying is better than running! From the series: Dealing with Corona 2020, picture series on newspaper articles, mixed media on the Wiener Zeitung
Barry John Hewson, MFA, occupied himself with frivolous yet plausible protective masks to deal with "CV-shock". The distraction helped.
Reinhard Beilner, Groß-Enzersdorf Lobaustraße 27, Lower Austria
Barbara Deda-Knöll, Teacher: 4 Children, three of them in school, constant cooking, playing elementary school teacher, doing home office on the side! Weekly plans by teachers who don’t understand that mothers and fathers can’t be full-time substitute teachers!“
Antonia Sprengnagel, „This poster hangs on a balcony of our neighboring building. Ettenreichgasse in Vienna’s 10th district.”
Andrea B., „Chat protocol of Homeroom 2d with their teacher: … We realized one thing today: We want to go back to school…want to see each other, talk to one another, have fun, get angry…”
Andrea Schrammel, Humoros photo for colleagues to elucidate aspects of the current situation: absurd ideas, no room, hysteria over toilet paper, living room becomes the center of everday (work) life, and lonliness
Claudia, Waiting for the Corona Test: “Fever curve and cell phone with Covid hotline number … waiting time 1 hour and 28 minutes … and it goes on”
Dana Braumann, „I am quarantined with my sons (3 and 5 years old). Every day we have at least one pillow fight. It tires us out real good and helps against tension/aggression brought on by being together constantly.”
Elisabeth Trummer, „We now drink long-life milk, which has kind of grown on us. It will be glorious, though, when we no longer have to buy it and will return to our old life.”
Hannah Ruh, „To not loose perspective, we started a ‘Quarantine-Board’, checking it off each night. Routine is important, after all! The Much-(Hand)-Washing-Bear is our very own mascot.”
Jana Welz/Anita Klemenjak: „Since all the stores are closed, we put up a sign in the staircase, asking if someone would lend us a puzzle. Two days later, a neighbor put the puzzle of St. Stephen’s in front of our door.”
Marco Schreuder, „This is the shopping list of my neighbor, a senior, for whom I go shopping 2-3 times a week. Preparing a list has become a favorite brain exercise for her. This was today’s list.”
Maya McKechney, Shop Window Wollzeile, Vienna’s 1st District
Mag.Dr. Michael Macek, „A puzzle from childhood – from 1971. Reassembled for the first time in 40 years. Beautifies my day and distracts from my own illness. Also a private sign of solidarity with my beloved Italy.”
Monika Österreicher, „At my place, there’s crocheting.”
Stefan Plank, „Home-made face mask. Materials: fabric pieces of a 4-folded undershirt and cord.”
Astrid Pintar, Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof) on March 24, 2020
Charlotte Repper, Disposable Glove on Sidewalk | Everyday Life during a Pandemic
Elvira Franta, „As a woman born and living in Vienna, I walk to the city center to ring out the day at the movie theater ‘Cine Center.’ In the times of Corona, a I try to maintain a sliver of ‘normalcy’ by holding onto my rituals.”
Nicole Scheiber, „At the moment, books have the greatest value for me … Thanks to then, the restrictions don’t bother me at all and I finally have the chance to sort the piles of novels and nonfiction books – and to read then, of course.”
Norbert Steiner, Supermarket Shelf, Vienna’s 20th District, March 23
Viki, Vienna’s 4th District