Föhnkrankheit

Audio work. Fiction/ documentary

This audio work reconstructs a wind expedition of the 19th century from diary entries by Gaston Tissandier (1839-1906). He was an aeronaut. Someone who used helium balloons to examine current. Parallel to this, we hear some personal stories about unexpected sides of the wind.

With Lucas de Man as aëronaut Gaston Tissander and Hidde Simons as captain Sivel. Marco van Heerde, Toos Linneman, Rudolf Nägerli, Helen Ochsenbein, Kaspar Ott, Simon Von Weissenfluh and Walter Von Weissenfluh.

Special thanks to: the Föhn guard of the village of Guttannen, Gasthof Bären, Magda Augusteijn, Titus Dürst, Liesbeth Prins and Studio Vermeer.

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2015 / Supported by Dutch Cultural Media Fund 2014. / Woord.nl / Nominated for Prix Europa

Sound space Zeno van den Broek, Research Netherlands Esma Linnemann, Production Switzerland Titus Dürst.