July 19 – 21, 1990
While the Pflasterspektakel was celebrating its fourth birthday, Linz was celebrating a landmark anniversary: the whole year was punctuated by events marking 500 years of the provincial capital. Since the number of people participating either actively or passively in the Pflasterspektakel had increased dramatically, with 335 performers being watched by 150,000 spectators, the festival was extended to Schillerpark and into Herrenstraße and the old quarter (Altstadt). However, it turned out to be not at all easy to lure the visitors away from the action taking place from the Hauptplatz to Landstraße. On the other hand, a large number of workshops offering instruction in acrobatics and free dance, conjuring, juggling, mime, African dance and puppet-making for children proved huge hits with the people of Linz. Some of the participants were even brave enough to display their newly acquired talents there and then in front of the Pflasterspektakel audience. The experiment of putting together a Linz samba band was also a great success, and the group, named “Guarana”, often featured on the Pflasterspektakel bill in the following years. Apart from the workshops that anyone could join in, other innovations this year were a Pflasterspektakel gallery in an old tram coach on the Hauptplatz and activities for children in the old quarter, which attracted a great many young visitors. In absolutely fantastic weather, Linz had now firmly established itself as a Mecca for street entertainment.
And not only that:
Christine Rosenfellner from Traun was elected the first (and only) Miss Pflasterspektakel!
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