Benedikt Mitmannsgruber: 1996

Benedikt Mitmannsgruber presents his third cabaret program "1996" – a humorous and quirky journey through his family history and his own development. Triggered by a yellowed photo album in the attic of his parents' house, he travels back to the early 20th century, when his great-grandparents raised 15 children in a border town on the Czech border. His parents grew up in the 1960s next to the Iron Curtain, in a region whose national affiliation remained unclear. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in the 1990s, Mitmannsgruber was born into a world that seemed foreign to him, but which he learned to love with all its peculiarities.

A homage to growing up in the provinces, a declaration of love for forgotten places, and a look at a society that is falling apart. With "1996," he dedicates the program to his two parents and four grandparents, who, despite difficult circumstances in the Austrian provinces, shaped him into the person he is today.