Benedikt Mitmannsgruber - Der seltsame Fall des Benedikt Mitmannsgruber

In the organizer's words:

In the Mühlviertel, they say it takes three things to become a grown man:
You have to father a child, build a house and plant a tree.
Benedikt Mitmannsgruber is not like any other man.
He is thin, weak, has a moustache, wears an old Norwegian sweater and is a classic anti-hero, a sensitive loser type.
Instead of building a house and becoming a father, he sits with a cup of St. John's wort tea in a sparsely furnished back room in a dreary city and writes funny stories.

At some point, his family realizes that he is not aging.
While his friends are getting older and older, taking on responsibilities, buying cars, fathering children and working, Mitmannsgruber is stuck in time. He wants to stay in his mid-20s forever.
He keeps putting off growing up until it seems unattainable and uncatchable.

One day he packs his things. With no goal in sight, he roams the stages of Austria and Germany. He plays on television, wins prizes and is sent anonymous underwear.

Can art save the disoriented good-for-nothing?
Can the disoriented good-for-nothing possibly even save art?

"The Strange Case of Benedikt Mitmannsgruber" is the large-scale fate of a young anti-hero and the people he meets in his life: He finds love, meets conspiracy theorists, is disappointed, has to live in isolation and learns what is of timeless importance: his dog, his girlfriend and avocado spread.

A program about masculinity and identity, revelations and turmeric, alienation and conspiracy theorists.

The strange case of Benedikt Mitmannsgruber.

About Benedikt

"Benedikt Mitmannsgruber, winner of the Stuttgarter Besen, has perfected the type of borderline-obsessive loser with depressive tendencies. (Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23.09.21)

"A talent we will be hearing a lot more of."
(Radio Ö1, ORF)

"Benedikt Mitmannsgruber, amen!
If this is the savior of a new Austrian cabaret generation, all prayers have been answered."
(Editorial director, ORF III)

"Very special humor, calmly performed - a great enrichment of the satirical landscape."
(Alfred Dorfer, cabaret artist, from the OÖN)

Benedikt Mitmannsgruber was born in 1996. He was not born in a pigsty, as is customary in the northern Mühlviertel, but in a real hospital with real doctors. Mitmannsgruber is still very proud of this today.
He was lonely in his childhood and teenage years, as he was the only child in his home town. At least the only child who was not already addicted to alcohol and nicotine at the age of 11. His support was the Catholic Church, his obsession Jesus, his muse the village priest. Or vice versa.
Mitmannsgruber gained his first stage experience at the tender age of 18 when, in the role of the dogmatic, charismatic class speaker, he gave the graduation speech at the HAK Freistadt high school graduation ceremony. The audience laughed out loud and applauded for a long time, which brought a smile (his first) to Mitmannsgruber's face.
After that, it took over two years for the pale Johanna Mikl-Leitner lookalike to pluck up all his courage and dare to take to the stage again. His first notable successes came in 2018, when he reached the prestigious final of the infamous Grazer Kleinkunstvogel.
In 2019, Mitmannsgruber won the audience award at the Freistädter Frischling in March. After his victory, he smiled for the second time in his life.
In April of the same year, the likeable moustachioed man from the far north won the KultO's Golden Egg in Ostermiething. This time, a tear of joy even flowed down the 22-year-old's cheek.
In 2021, "the lanky loser type" won the Stuttgart broom, with raven-black and very Austrian humor.

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