Die Kinder der Toten

        Die Kinder der Toten – Der Große Dreh
    
15/09 – 15/10Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer OberlandThe Nature Theater of Oklahoma ventures the impossible: creating a film version of Elfriede Jelinek’s novel “Die Kinder der Toten”. Filming around Neuberg an der Mürz is, at the same time, a live performance. Anyone who wants can come along and watch and, above all, join in!

        Die Kinder der Toten – Shooting Schedule
    
15/09 – 15/10Neuberg an der Mürz
                
        Die Kinder der Toten – The Novel
    
Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandWhen steirischer herbst visits Upper Styria this year, everything revolves around “Die Kinder der Toten” by Elfriede Jelinek. Her ghost novel eloquently debunks undead clichés about Austria and national pathos.

        Base Camp
    
29/09 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandAnyone who wants to ascend Elfriede Jelinek’s magnum opus is invited to the Veranstaltungszentrum Mürzer Oberland. Food and drink, cinema and literature – and many an unforgettable night – await the brave members of the expedition in this Base Camp.

        Roaring Silence
    
29/09 – 01/10, 06/10 – 08/10 & 13/10 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer Oberland666 pages of Jelinek in 144 hours as a collective reading experience. On three weekends, steirischer herbst invites the audience to take part in a public reading of “ Die Kinder der Toten” from cover to cover. Again and again.

        Carnival of Souls
    
Sat 30/09 & Sat 14/10kunsthaus muerzThe dance of the undead: composer Wolfgang Mitterer accompanies one of Elfriede Jelinek’s favourite films with musical improvisations.

        Cinema 666
    
Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10VAZ Mürzer Oberland”Cinema 666” brings to life the spirits of the cinematic past – with Styrian home movies, forgotten gems of horror and classics of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.

        Will I Survive?
    
Fri 06/10 & Sat 07/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandUndead everywhere! Three rare pearls of horror film will lure visitors with their undead protagonists. Top-notch shockers selected by absolute genre mavens.

        „Urlaubsfreude lodert aus dem Wald”
    
Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer OberlandFancy a Jelinek tour? Specially organised coach tours and walks and a brochure take you on a journey to the mysterious locations of “Die Kinder der Toten“.

        Untitled
    
30/09 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandOn the way to the steirischer herbst Base Camp? Be prepared for some bewilderment! Viennese artist Marko Lulić creates a symbolic marker in Kapellen that is visible from far and wide.

        Guests arrived, none of us could see them
    
30/09 – 15/10Neuberg an der MürzThe work of Georgian artist Vajiko Chachkhiani presents itself as conundrum between nature and human presence, past and present.

Matinee

Sun 24/09, 11.00

Festival centre

Admission free

With Kelly Copper (US), Oswald Egger (IT/DE), Klaus Kastberger (AT), Pavol Liska (US), Claus Philipp (AT)

Symposium

Thu 19/10, 17.00 – 23.00

Fri 20/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Sat 21/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Literaturhaus Graz

Day pass 10 €

With Thomas Ballhausen (AT), Sacha Batthyany (AT/US), Stefan Benedik (AT), Anne Bennent (CH/AT), Bratko Bibič (SI), Corina Caduff (CH), Oswald Egger (IT/DE), Olga Flor (AT), Lia Gulua (GE), Gitta Honegger (US/AT), Hildegard Kernmayer (AT), Roland Koberg (AT/DE), Alfred Kolleritsch (AT), Helmut Konrad (AT), Sigrid Löffler (AT/DE), Fatima Naqvi (US), Claus Philipp (AT), Sophie Reyer (AT), Daniela Strigl (AT), Heidemarie Uhl (AT) and students of the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel and of the Germanistik der Universität Graz (Jelinek-Werkstatt)

Information and tickets at //literaturhaus-graz.at

To put it Styrian: Elfriede Jelinek’s novel “Die Kinder der Toten” from 1995 is a Grimming of German-language literature. A mighty massif standing out in the open countryside.

With a symposium at the end of October, Literaturhaus Graz continues the collective ascent of this literary massif within the city limits. Lectures add further depth to the themes of the novel and follow on the trail of its reception, while readings and performances test new forms of interpretation. Two films provide the visuals: in the documentary “Ramsau am Dachstein”, 1976, Jelinek plumbs the depths of Heimat in an astonishing TV format. The B movie “Carnival of Souls”, 1962, offers undead as a source of inspiration for writing.

An open workshop on the evenings of the symposium provides the tools for this in-depth examination of the work: references and links in the novel, sources and facts about its creation, allusions and quotations, explorations of its plotlines, guides to reading, roundabout and devious paths, (occasional) falls.

The matinée preluding the festival gives first insights into the novel and a taste of the venture of creating a film version.

Die Kinder der Toten
        Die Kinder der Toten – Der Große Dreh
    
15/09 – 15/10Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer OberlandThe Nature Theater of Oklahoma ventures the impossible: creating a film version of Elfriede Jelinek’s novel “Die Kinder der Toten”. Filming around Neuberg an der Mürz is, at the same time, a live performance. Anyone who wants can come along and watch and, above all, join in!

        Die Kinder der Toten – Shooting Schedule
    
15/09 – 15/10Neuberg an der Mürz
                
        Die Kinder der Toten – The Novel
    
Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandWhen steirischer herbst visits Upper Styria this year, everything revolves around “Die Kinder der Toten” by Elfriede Jelinek. Her ghost novel eloquently debunks undead clichés about Austria and national pathos.

        Base Camp
    
29/09 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandAnyone who wants to ascend Elfriede Jelinek’s magnum opus is invited to the Veranstaltungszentrum Mürzer Oberland. Food and drink, cinema and literature – and many an unforgettable night – await the brave members of the expedition in this Base Camp.

        Roaring Silence
    
29/09 – 01/10, 06/10 – 08/10 & 13/10 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer Oberland666 pages of Jelinek in 144 hours as a collective reading experience. On three weekends, steirischer herbst invites the audience to take part in a public reading of “ Die Kinder der Toten” from cover to cover. Again and again.

        Carnival of Souls
    
Sat 30/09 & Sat 14/10kunsthaus muerzThe dance of the undead: composer Wolfgang Mitterer accompanies one of Elfriede Jelinek’s favourite films with musical improvisations.

        Cinema 666
    
Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10VAZ Mürzer Oberland”Cinema 666” brings to life the spirits of the cinematic past – with Styrian home movies, forgotten gems of horror and classics of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.

        Will I Survive?
    
Fri 06/10 & Sat 07/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandUndead everywhere! Three rare pearls of horror film will lure visitors with their undead protagonists. Top-notch shockers selected by absolute genre mavens.

        „Urlaubsfreude lodert aus dem Wald”
    
Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer OberlandFancy a Jelinek tour? Specially organised coach tours and walks and a brochure take you on a journey to the mysterious locations of “Die Kinder der Toten“.

        Untitled
    
30/09 – 15/10VAZ Mürzer OberlandOn the way to the steirischer herbst Base Camp? Be prepared for some bewilderment! Viennese artist Marko Lulić creates a symbolic marker in Kapellen that is visible from far and wide.

        Guests arrived, none of us could see them
    
30/09 – 15/10Neuberg an der MürzThe work of Georgian artist Vajiko Chachkhiani presents itself as conundrum between nature and human presence, past and present.

Wir Kinder der Toten

[We, The Children of the Dead]

Heimat and horror in Elfriede Jelinek

Die Kinder der Toten

15/09 – 15/10

Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer Oberland

15/09 – 15/10

Neuberg an der Mürz

Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

29/09 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

29/09 – 01/10, 06/10 – 08/10 & 13/10 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Sat 30/09 & Sat 14/10

kunsthaus muerz

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Fri 06/10 & Sat 07/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10

Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer Oberland

30/09 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

30/09 – 15/10

Neuberg an der Mürz

Matinee

Sun 24/09, 11.00

Admission free

Symposium

Thu 19/10, 17.00 – 23.00

Fri 20/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Sat 21/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Day pass 10 €

Die Kinder der Toten

15/09 – 15/10

Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer Oberland

15/09 – 15/10

Neuberg an der Mürz

Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

29/09 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

29/09 – 01/10, 06/10 – 08/10 & 13/10 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Sat 30/09 & Sat 14/10

kunsthaus muerz

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Fri 06/10 & Sat 07/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10

Meeting point: VAZ Mürzer Oberland

30/09 – 15/10

VAZ Mürzer Oberland

30/09 – 15/10

Neuberg an der Mürz

Matinee

Sun 24/09, 11.00

Admission free

Symposium

Thu 19/10, 17.00 – 23.00

Fri 20/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Sat 21/10, 14.30 – 23.00

Day pass 10 €

Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10

Sat 30/09, Sat 07/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Fri 13/10 & Sat 14/10

Fri 29/09, Fri 06/10,
Sun 01/10 & Sun 08/10