Musiksommer: Christoph Ransmayr

Reads from "Anywhere You Go, Baby"

In remembrance of the classic photo album, in which the adventures of the moment were documented in keywords under often blurry images, Christoph Ransmayr tells in "Anywhere You Go, Baby" seventy stories condensed into micro-novels corresponding to seventy of his black-and-white photographs.

Reading, Autumn Reading 2027

Christoph Ransmayr: Recitation

Admission: € 26.00
Tickets at the Bad Schallerbach Tourist Office 07249/420710, tickets@musiksommerbadschallerbach.at  or available from Ö-Ticket.
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Important Information
Christoph Ransmayr's reading has been postponed from 16.10.2026 at 7:00 p.m. to 13.10.2027 at 7:00 p.m.. Tickets purchased for the original date remain valid!

Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Wels/Oberösterreich and after years in Ireland and traveling now lives again in Vienna. In addition to his novels "The Horrors of Ice and Darkness," "The Last World," "Morbus Kitahara," "The Flying Mountain," "Cox or The Course of Time," "The Fall Master. A Short Story of Killing," and "Atlas of an Anxious Man," forms of narrative appear, including "Ladies & Gentlemen Underwater," "Confessions of a Tourist," "The Wolf Hunter" (together with Martin Pollack), and "Medicine Against Mortality." In 2022, the collection of poems and ballads "Under a Sugar Sky" (illustrated by Anselm Kiefer) was published, in 2024 the story collection "When I was Still Immortal" as well as the volume "Anywhere You Go, Baby" with photographs by the author. The volume "Report at the Fire" was published about Christoph Ransmayr's work.
For his books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, he has received numerous literary awards, including the literary prizes named after Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Heinrich von Kleist, the Premio Mondello, and, jointly 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 in 2023 the South Korean Park-Kyung-ni Prize.

Anywhere You Go, Baby
Seventy images, seventy stories, seventy literary masterpieces
Here one makes his life visible in snapshots, narratively crossing continents and times and sometimes articulating the fleetingness of the moment ironically, but always with passion and virtuosity.
In remembrance of the classic photo album, in which the adventures of the moment were documented in keywords under often blurry images, Christoph Ransmayr tells in "Anywhere You Go, Baby" seventy stories condensed into micro-novels corresponding to seventy of his black-and-white photographs. Each photo a visual note, dictated by the randomness of presence and recorded in passing with a smartphone or a digital camera. Each text to the image becomes a self-contained, polished piece of prose: a micro-novel.
For even in a few lines, one can narrate expeditions into the moments of reality and into the boundlessness of imagination – especially when it happens with the observational talent and the formulation skill 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

General Info
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* Entry begins about 45 minutes before the start.
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Discounts
Half-Price Pass
Especially for regular audiences from the region, valid year-round. For only € 35.00 you can purchase your personal half-price pass for 2026, which is valid for many events! Excluded are events with agency participation as well as concerts that would otherwise be economically unfeasible.

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€ 2.00 discount on many events.

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10% discount

Additional
50% discount for children, young people, students, and people with disabilities.

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