F. Torberg - Café was everywhere with Heinz Marecek - Festival Intertones

Torberg has already become something of a brand in Austrian literature: If one seeks light reading full of bon mots and witty anecdotes that often exude the much-cited Jewish humor as well as the Viennese charm, one first turns to the books of the great café literature writer. Audience favorite Heinz Marecek, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, allows the virtuoso grandmaster of humor, with whom he was also personally friends, to speak extensively. In an inimitable manner, he portrays the life of the author, as well as the lovable and quirky characters of his stories, who always have a punchline ready for any life situation. However, as a special feature, Marecek also presents another, lesser-known side of the great writer: With the story "The Last Ride of Jockey Matteo," he brings an exciting and psychologically sophisticated text by Torberg to the stage, which nonetheless maintains the unmistakably soft, humorous cadence of language that the audience loves so much about him and which Marecek also masters so inimitably.