‘When you’re young, you’re convinced.’ Herbert Ursprunger

Herbert Ursprunger was young and convinced when he worked on planning the landscape integration of the Wachau road in the late 1950s. Just before his ninetieth birthday, we met him for an interview in his home in Vienna. In her artistic work, Iris Andraschek is interested in the stories behind the people. In conversation with Herbert Ursprunger, we learnt how it came about that he was commissioned with the Wachau road project at the age of 22. Film and photo recordings were made during the conversation. Iris Andraschek has artistically processed photos from the early years of Wachau road and combined that with clips from the detailed interview into a short film.