Cornelius Obonya reads - Culture.Summer.Semmering

"We have a God who will make us healthy, and if He doesn't, well, we'll just go to ruin. But we work hard and make an effort, you see! We're not really keen on that in Vienna!" – Fritz Grünbaum

The former Everyman and audience magnet Cornelius Obonya returns once again to Semmering with works from one of the most colorful personalities of Viennese modernism: Fritz Grünbaum. The extensive legacy of the brilliant Jewish cabaret artist and master of ceremonies is filled with sharp-tongued satire, charming social observations, and darkly humorous texts that made him a central figure in Viennese cabaret. Obonya serves as the unadulterated voice of this virtuoso stage artist, lending his voice to this literary chronicler of a time whose testimony, even in retrospect, is strikingly relevant, deeply human, and biting in its wit.