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Download app, start running and ears prick up ...
Whether as a group walk or solo tour with your own smartphone: Audiowalks are booming. How things work and where to get something to hear.
When you walk around the city and see completely absent people staring at a house facade with headphones on their ears - do not be surprised! Presumably, these nerds are participants in an interactive adventure tour listening to the voice coming from their MP3 player.
So-called " audio walks " are booming. And not just as an acoustic city or museum tour with facts about architecture or history - but above all as a themed tour through a very special world.
How it works? You join an organized group or invite yourself to a special city walk on your smartphone - and start on your own. As with the city walk "Brave New Work", where you learn how the working conditions and the shops in Berlin-Mitte have changed over the centuries (the QR code for mobile phones in the Berlin restaurant "St.Oberholz ", Rosenthaler Straße 72 a). The guided listening walk "Jena-Cospeda" in turn tells - accompanied by horse- drumming and cannon thunder - of the Napoleonic era (dates for the Walk on www.jena.de or on site in the "Museum 1806").
Brand new is the idea to create pictures in the head through stories from the tape, of course not. After all, we have already lost ourselves in the radio drama adventures of the "Five Friends" in fantasy worlds. But today, thanks to the sophisticated Audiowalks, we can really stroll through the scene and "jump in" the story. There are even "walk-through" thrillers and plays that play in their own city park or on the marketplace around the corner.
"Today, we long to dive into other worlds, and modern audio walks combine a desire for true experience and dreaming away, " says trend researcher Peter Wippermann. That was also the idea behind the acoustic end-time story "What's left is history", which Nina Seegers developed. The 40-minute tour combines historical facts with a science fiction story around Oldenburg's train station district. The voice in the ear tells of the bizarre people who once lived in a pink painted house, of a lot of fuss and a coming catastrophe.
The great thing about it: "Everyone will set their own ideas of the narrated, " says Seegers.
In the Audiowalks "everyone" hears the world with different eyes.
