Musiksommer: Christoph Ransmayr

Reads from "Wherever, Baby"

In memory of the classic photo album, where often blurry images documented the adventures of the moment in keywords, Christoph Ransmayr narrates in "Wherever, Baby" seventy stories condensed into micro-novels based on seventy of his black-and-white photographs.

Reading, Autumn Reading 2026

Christoph Ransmayr: Recitation

Admission: € 26.00
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Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Wels, Upper Austria, and lives again in Vienna after years in Ireland and traveling. In addition to his novels "The Horrors of Ice and Darkness," "The Last World," "Morbus Kitahara," "The Flying Mountain," "Cox or The Flow of Time," "The Fall Master. A Short Story about Killing," and "Atlas of an Anxious Man," he has created narrative forms such as "Ladies & Gentlemen Underwater," "Confessions of a Tourist," "The Wolf Hunter" (together with Martin Pollack), and "Medicine Against Mortality." In 2022, he published the collection of poems and ballads "Under a Sugar Sky" (illustrated by Anselm Kiefer), and in 2024 the short story collection "When I Was Still Immortal" as well as the volume "Wherever, Baby" with photographs by the author. The volume "Report by the Fire" was published on Christoph Ransmayr's work.
For his books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, he has received numerous literary awards, including those named after Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Heinrich von Kleist, the Premio Mondello, and, together with Salman Rushdie, the Prix Aristeion of the European Union, the Prix du meilleur livre étranger, and the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne, most recently the South Korean Park-Kyung-ni Prize in 2023.

Wherever, Baby
Seventy images, seventy stories, seventy literary masterpieces
Here one makes his life visible in snapshots, narratively crossing continents and times, and sometimes recounts the fleetingness of the moment ironically, but always with passion and virtuosity.
In memory of the classic photo album, where often blurry images documented the adventures of the moment in keywords, Christoph Ransmayr tells in "Wherever, Baby" seventy stories condensed into micro-novels based on seventy of his black-and-white photographs. Each photo is an optical note, owed to the randomness of presence and recorded in passing with a smartphone or digital camera. Each text accompanying the image becomes a self-contained, polished piece of prose: a micro-novel.
For from expeditions into the moments of reality and into the boundlessness of fantasy can also be told in just a few lines - especially when it is done with the observational skills and the art of formulation of the world-experienced Christoph Ransmayr.

“Who travels sees the world with different eyes. Christoph Ransmayr's book […] is the best proof of that” — ORF
“A magnificent writer and a remarkable author” — OÖ Nachrichten

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