Luna Park


  • Photographer
    Heinz Innerhofer
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Innerhofer Heinz
  • Date of Photograph
    2015 Oktober
  • Technical Info
    digital

Heinz Innerhofer *1964 Studied at the film school "Zelig School for Documentary Films" in Bozen. A series of periods abroad followed, as an assistant cameraman for various documentary films for the ORF, ZDF, SRF and RAI, before returning to South Tyrol and completing a 3-year course as a bookbinder. By coincidence I came to Munich, where I worked as a photographic assistant for a few years. I started independent work as a photographic and graphic designer in 2001 and in 2010 I completed a 5-semester course in artistic and representative photography at the Austrian "Prager Fotoschule", with distinction. Today I live and work as a freelance photographer in St.Lorenzen (South Tyrol).

Story

Why carrousels are so fascinating

Merry-go-rounds have been existing for nearly 400 years now - whether on the Oktoberfest, the Cannstatter Wasen or on Stegener Markt, a market nearby Bruneck, a small town in South Tyrol, close to the Austrian border.

Maybe also because to me it is repeatedly a kind of opportunity to prolong my youth. Every adult used to be a kid once. Fairground rides take me back to these good old days. And all of a sudden, I’m 15 or 16 years old again.  

However, longing for carrousels and whatever they stand for is a most present thing. Movies, books and paintings, postcards and posters that are repeatedly re-published as nostalgic replications tell of its most special allure.    

Whoever wishes to experience the feeling of blissful spinning around, gyrating and the rest of the world disappearing outside Luna Park, just has to read out Rilke‘s famous poem from 1906 aloud. The carrousel is also known in the interpretation of dreams. It symbolizes memories of childhood and youth and expresses our longing for jollity, zest for life and easiness. To Margit Ramus, it stands for even much more: “Just like life itself, the merry-go-round goes in circles. Isn’t it nice if you find your track in life and follow it until things merge and you have happily achieved your goals”.

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