Pool of supporters
Acoustic City appeals to public figures with a request for ideal support for the concerns of Acoustic City in a freely chosen form – whether it is by addressing the precarious condition of acoustic space in discussions and speeches, lobbying in politics and business, propagating noise imposition-free spaces, supporting and ensuring the Akustikon as a center and culmination of Acoustic City. The constantly growing list of Acoustic City supporters includes:
Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor and designated director of the State Opera
Roland Gnaiger
Architect, professor at the Art University Linz
Andreas Stadler
Head of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Sonja Ablinger
Representative in parliament
Heinrich Schiff
musician, festival director
Gabriella Hauch
Institute for Women’s and Gender Research, Kepler University Linz
Elmar Altvater
National economist, writer
Herbert Tumpel
President of the Federal Chamber of Labor
Anton Zeilinger
Physicist
Reinhard Kannonier
Rector of the Art University Linz
Karl-Heinz Essl
Composer, professor
Rudi Anschober
State Councilor, government of the Federal Province of Upper Austria
Christoph Koller
Managing director Steinway in Austria
Dennis Russell Davies
Chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dietfried Bernet
Conductor
Erich Haider
Vice-governor, state councilor, chairman of the Austrian Social-Democratic Party Upper Austria
Theresa Jordis
President of the Vienna Concert House Society
Bernhard Kerres
Director of the Vienna Konzerthaus
Rudolf Buchbinder
Pianist, artistic director of the Grafenegg Festival
Günther Rhomberg
President of the Bregenz Festival
Aleksandar Markovic
Chief conductor Tirol State Theater and Orchestra
Reinhold Messner
Alpinist and environmental protection activist
Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger
Artist
Helga Rabl-Stadler
President of the Salzburg Festival
Hans Platzgumer
Artist
Peter Paul Kaspar
Pastor for academics and artist, rector of the Ursuline Church Linz
Rocko Schamoni
Artist
Klaus Luger
City Councilor, City of Linz
Wolfgang Winkler
Director of the Brucknerhaus Linz
Peter Payer
Researcher, historian
Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek
Chairwoman and spokeswoman of the Green Party
