Musiksommer: Robert Menasse

reads from "The Capital"

In his major European novel "The Capital," the award-winning writer Robert Menasse draws a wide arc between times, nations, the inevitable, and the irony of fate, between petty bureaucracy and great emotions.

Reading, Autumn Reading 2026

Robert Menasse: Recitation

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Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse was born in 1954 in Vienna and grew up there as well. He studied German Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science in Vienna, Salzburg, and Messina, earning his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the "Type of the Outsider in the Literary World." Menasse then taught for six years – first as a lecturer in Austrian literature, then as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Literary Theory – at the University of São Paulo. There he mostly held courses on philosophical and aesthetic theories. Since returning from Brazil in 1988, Robert Menasse has lived primarily in Vienna as a writer and cultural-critical essayist.

The Capital
Fenia Xenopoulou, an official at the General Directorate for Culture of the European Commission, faces a challenging task. She is to polish the Commission's image. But how? She commissions the assistant Martin Susman to develop an idea. The idea takes shape – the shape of a ghost from history that causes unrest in the EU institutions. David de Vriend is fading in a nursing home opposite the Brussels cemetery, facing his death. As a child, he jumped from a deportation train that took his parents to their deaths. Now he is to testify to what he is about to forget. Commissioner Brunfaut also faces a difficult task. For political reasons, he must let a murder case rest – "file it away" would be too much said, as the files are untraceable.

“A magnificent […] love letter to Europe and at the same time a brilliantly researched inside view of the workings of the European Commission.” — Der Tagesspiegel

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