Karl Markovics & Upper Austria Concert Schrammeln

Stories about Food, Drink, and Misery

Karl Markovics plays an Austrian journalist in the TV series Babylon Berlin, a character inspired by all those whose texts he reads here! He reads texts that deal with the theme of how life can bring us down before it is actually over. It’s about food and drink...

In "The Deceitful Heuriger & Other Calamities," the versatile artist reads Austrian literature by Alfred Polgar, Josef Roth, Anton Kuh, Friedrich Torberg, Karl Kraus, and others... You will laugh a lot! And you will be amazed!

Musically, he is accompanied by the Upper Austrian Concert Schrammeln with selected musical delicacies WITHOUT Heuriger music.

"Restaurants are occasions where hosts greet, guests order, and waiters eat." - Karl Kraus

The stories of this evening revolve around how life can bring us down even before it is truly over—about the smaller and larger calamities surrounding the basic needs of physical and mental existence. About the other (Anton Kuh), about the atrocities of language (Karl Kraus), about poor service (Alfred Polgar), about too much good (Friedrich Torberg), about too much bad and too few (Ernst Jandl), about lost dreams (Felix Salten), about desire (Peter Altenberg), and generally about all sorts of misfortunes. Or simply about bad luck.

So enjoy the evening while it lasts. Because soon the harsh reality will blow in your face again. Perhaps it is a small comfort to tell you: I feel the same way.

Karl Markovics, January 2017

Cast:
Karl Markovics - Recitation
Peter Gillmayr - Violin
Kathrin Lenzenweger - Violin
Andrej Serkov - Schrammel harmonica
Guntram Zauner - Contrabass

MUSIC by Johann Schrammel, Franz Schubert, Robert Stolz, Josef Mikulas, and others.