Benedikt Mitmannsgruber - Der seltsame Fall des B

In the Mühlviertel they say it takes three things to become a grown man: You have to father a child, build a house and plant a tree. Benedikt Mitmannsgruber is not a man like all the others. He is thin, weak, has a moustache, wears an old Norwegian jumper and is a classic anti-hero, a sensitive loser type. Instead of building a house and becoming a father, he sits with a cup of St. John's wort tea in a sparsely furnished back room in a dreary big city and writes funny stories.Eventually his family realises that he doesn't age. While his friends are getting older, taking on responsibilities, buying cars, fathering children and working, Mitmannsgruber is stuck in time. He wants to stay in his mid-20s forever. He keeps putting off growing up until it lies unattainable and uncatchable before him. And then he packs his bags. Without a goal in mind, he tours the stages of Austria and Germany. He plays on television, wins prizes and is sent anonymous underwear.Can art save the disoriented good-for-nothing? Can the disoriented good-for-nothing possibly even save art? "The Strange Case of Benedikt Mitmannsgruber" is the large-scale fate of a young anti-hero and the people he meets in his life: He finds love, meets conspiracy theorists, is disappointed, has to go into isolation and learns what is of timeless importance: his dog, his girlfriend and avocado spread."Anyone who could escape from the revolving door of life in the Mühlviertel to study the small blueberry border traffic to the Czech Republic and then stoically sink Jörg Haider as an albino python in the toilet bowl - anyone who constantly wickedly re-sharpened his own supposed naivety is entitled to the executioner's axe." (Jury statement Passauer Scharfrichterbeil 2022)