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Thomas Bernhard Machine is a musical-performative experiment that transforms the Austrian writer's power of language into a sonic thunderstorm - dark, powerful and surprisingly funny.

Christoph Grissemann (vocals), Manfred Engelmayr (electric guitar) and David Reumüller (drums) take Bernhard's work seriously - and at the same time tear it out of its literary comfort zone. Repetition, linguistic rhythm, polemics: everything that characterizes Bernhard's prose becomes a musical structure here. The stage becomes an amplifier for his unmistakable tone. Grissemann slips into changing roles: sometimes as a grim frontman, reciting dark passages of text with a sombre timbre, sometimes as a disguised Bernhard actor in a café on Mallorca - inspired by the legendary television monologues recorded by Krista Fleischmann and Wolfgang Koch in 1981. In this play between profundity and absurdity, between genuine quotation and invented pose, seriousness and satire become blurred in a highly entertaining way.

Thomas Bernhard Machine is neither a reading nor a concert, neither homage nor parody - it is an evening of crossing boundaries. Linguistic art meets noise, literature meets groove. Bernhard is not explained, but felt.

Christoph Grissemann - vocals

Manfred Engelmayr - e-guit

David Reumüller - drums

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Christoph Grissemann is an Austrian cabaret artist, author, actor and TV and radio presenter. Together with Dirk Stermann, he has formed the multi-award-winning satirical duo Stermann & Grissemann since the 1990s, known for their black humor, critical satire and unconventional stage performances. He achieved cult status with the FM4 radio show "Salon Helga" and, from 2007, as co-host of the successful late-night show "Willkommen Österreich" (ORF 1), which has been a fixture of Austrian television culture ever since. . tv/

Manfred Engelmayr is a Viennese musician, composer and performer with a focus on experimental music, noise, rock avant-garde and sound art. He has been shaping the Austrian music scene for over two decades - both as a solo artist and with projects such as BULBUL, Raumschiff Engelmayr and numerous collaborations in the fields of theater, performance and visual arts.

Engelmayr works consistently at the intersection of analog brutality and conceptual precision. in 2025 he was awarded the Prize of the City of Vienna. . klingt.org

David Reumüller is a drummer, singer, visual artist and cultural activist. He has shaped the Austrian music and art landscape as a member of the sludge band Reflector and as an installation artist, filmmaker and curator. As a cultural actor and author, Reumüller also contributed to the Rockarchiv Steiermark, published the anthology Rockmusik in der Steiermark bis 1975 in 2010 and curated exhibitions as part of the Diagonale as well as the pop music show "POP 1900-2000". In 2021, he was awarded the City of Graz Art Promotion Prize for his diverse art projects. . reumueller.com/index.htm

The event is made possible with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum and the International Thomas Bernhard Society.Translated with DeepL

Meeting point: Lecture hall ruins

Price: €20.00

Reduced price: €15.00

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