Kabarett: Benedikt Mitmannsgruber - 1996

In the attic of his parents' house, he discovers a yellowed album containing a family tree. For Benedikt Mitmannsgruber, this marks the beginning of a furious journey through the past of his family and through his own absurd everyday life. The journey starts in the early 20th century in a small village near the Czech border. There, Benedikt Mitmannsgruber's great-grandparents decide to have 15 children. In the 1960s, Benedikt Mitmannsgruber's parents are born. They spend their childhood next to the Iron Curtain in the deepest Austrian province. No one really knows whether the small stretch of land actually belongs to the Czech Republic or Austria. In the 1990s, the curtain falls, and Benedikt Mitmannsgruber's parents decide to conceive a son. He is born into a world in which he never quite fits, yet he loves it with all its quirky inhabitants and peculiarities.

A tribute to growing up in the middle of nowhere. A declaration of love to forgotten little places. A journey into one's own past. A surreal look at our society and at a world gone awry.

Benedikt Mitmannsgruber's third program “1996” is dedicated to his two parents and four grandparents, who, despite a difficult upbringing at the end of the world with hardly any prospects, shaped him into the Benedikt Mitmannsgruber he is today.