Natural Harassments

Salzburg 2023
B&W-prints on leaves by Konrad Rainer 

In an Untersberg legend, a woodsman returns one day from the mountain’s labyrinth of caves, seemingly unharmed, and finds a world that is no longer recognizable.Years seem to have passed since his mysterious disappearance, and he finds neither support nor comfort in the unfamiliar surroundings.
The audience with the archbishop gives them both a lifelong vow of silence, so that from now on no one will be disturbed by all the strange things that happened to him in the belly of the mountain.

Little is also known about the monstrous effort undertaken by a regional enterprise to produce essential components for jet engines as well as shells of various sizes near the Untersberg in WWII.
Under the code name Kiesel, titanic tunnel systems were driven into the rock. Forced laborers were used for the realization of this large-scale project.

The Untersberg region was also a war zone: full of supposedly erased traces that rust away underground in rough quantities until they emerge again and become visible through metabolic processes in the plants or as materialization in the rock.