Brunnenmarkt - a piece of home

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Vienna has a lively tradition of streetmarkets. The Brunnenmarkt is a daily opened food market in the workingclass quarter Ottakring. Years ago it was a quite small market in the Brunnenstrasse, nowadays it is expanding every year, because it‘s a great opportunity to get your first job when you are new in Vienna, without the necessarity to speak German, because your customers are mostly from your country and customers are happy to find products from their countries and find a little piece of home.
"There are for example syrian barbecues opened by refugees, west African butchers, Turkish fruit shops, croatian bakeries, but also original Austrian wurstel stands etc. Some of them just a few days in the country, some of them for generations.
"So this recording is a sound walk with in ear microphones and you can listen to a nice jumble of languages, for example an Austrian student dealing with a Croatian cheese marketer about the price in german. The student said, that the marketer is always so good to him."
Recorded in Vienna by Michael Deak.
Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration.
For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration