--- title: "Musiksommer: Christoph Ransmayr" url: "https://www.upperaustria.com/en/oesterreich-veranstaltung/detail/430288502/musiksommer-christoph-ransmayr.html" description: "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 2027Christoph Ransmayr: RecitationAdmission: € 26.00Tickets at the Bad Schallerbach Tourist Office 07249/420710, tickets@musiksommerbadschallerbach.at or available from Ö-Ticket.http://www.musiksommerbadschallerbach.at/ Important InformationChristoph 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 RansmayrChristoph 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, BabySeventy images, seventy stories, seventy literary masterpiecesHere 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 NachrichtenGeneral Info* The box office opens 90 minutes before the event starts.* Entry begins about 45 minutes before the start.* NEW: Numbered seating reservation via oeticketTicket SalesPlease note that reserved tickets must be paid for!oeticket: www.oeticket.com Outlets: Newsagent shops, ticket offices, tourist information centers, Media Markets, etc.Bookings through the Musiksommer website are processed with oeticket: www.musiksommerbadschallerbach.at Tourism Association QuellenviertelTourist Office Bad Schallerbachtickets@musiksommerbadschallerbach.at Promenade 2, 4701 Bad Schallerbach+43 7249 420 710Opening HoursMonday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.(excluding public holidays)DiscountsHalf-Price PassEspecially 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. OÖN-Card 15% discountOÖ Senior Citizens' Association and OÖ Pensioners' Association€ 2.00 discount on many events.Guest Card50% discount in advance sale only with personal registration at the Tourist Office Bad Schallerbach.Ö1 Club 10% discountAdditional 50% discount for children, young people, students, and people with disabilities.For students of the Oö. Landesmusikschulwerks under 18 years, a flat rate of € 5.00 applies when mentioning the music school and teacher." image: "https://www.upperaustria.com/fileadmin/user_upload/upperaustria/Logo_upperuastria_RGB_300x300px_Websites.png" date: 2017-02-22 modified: 2026-03-18 --- # Musiksommer: Christoph Ransmayr Musiksommer: Christoph Ransmayr ================================= 13.10.2027 / 19:00 Bad Schallerbach, Atrium Europasaal Bad Schallerbach Vorträge, Lesung ![](https://assets.tourdata.at/260x195/352464/EA7234E86C0401464BE91F5D04AD4F976629193600E479640122C873A59A83EB/christoph-ransmayr.jpg) View copyright © Robert Brembeck Close copyright [ ![An expressive older man with gray hair and a beard. 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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** \* The box office opens 90 minutes before the event starts. \* Entry begins about 45 minutes before the start. \* NEW: Numbered seating reservation via oeticket **Ticket Sales** Please note that reserved tickets must be paid for! **oeticket: www.oeticket.com** Outlets: Newsagent shops, ticket offices, tourist information centers, Media Markets, etc. Bookings through the Musiksommer website are processed with oeticket: www.musiksommerbadschallerbach.at **Tourism Association Quellenviertel** **Tourist Office Bad Schallerbach** **tickets@musiksommerbadschallerbach.at** Promenade 2, 4701 Bad Schallerbach +43 7249 420 710 **Opening Hours** Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (excluding public holidays) **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. **OÖN-Card** 15% discount **OÖ Senior Citizens' Association and OÖ Pensioners' Association** € 2.00 discount on many events. **Guest Card** 50% discount in advance sale only with personal registration at the Tourist Office Bad Schallerbach. **Ö1 Club** 10% discount **Additional** 50% discount for children, young people, students, and people with disabilities. For students of the Oö. Landesmusikschulwerks under 18 years, a flat rate of € 5.00 applies when mentioning the music school and teacher. 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