900 years of Zwickau, projection show

Our task was to tell the city history of Zwickau in a unique way. Together with Hauslaib Lichtwelten, Zander & Partner developed a video mapping that tells episodes from nine centuries. All the contents of the projection show were only roughly oriented along the time line from 1118 to the present day. In the five-minute show we processed numerous motifs and embedded them in a narrative arc. The colorfulness of Max Pechstein’s images influenced the animations just as much as the still simple two-dimensional representations from Agricola’s time. Robert Schumann’s musical motifs were also to be found in the audio level of the show. The mapping took up the mode of presentation from the respective epoch. Parts of the scenes began with the optics and dynamics of a book on the facade. But the animation didn’t stop with “simple” scrolling through historical scenes and appearing people, buildings and landscapes. Rather, the events were flowing dynamically into each other and drew the view of the audience into the events and images from the history of the city. Large-scale scenes with strong visual effects alternated with depictions of social upheavals and the further development of technology and urban development. The starting point for many spectacular effects was the facade of the town hall itself, which unfolded, collapsed, was flooded, etc. The facade was also transformed into landscapes of industrialization or into the production line of the automotive industry in Zwickau. In addition to strong visual effects, the sound with a musical composition and its realistic sounds and sounds also immersed the viewer in the scenes.