DEKADENZ UND DOPPELMORAL - Nicole Beutler and Joseph Lorenz - Attergauer Kultursommer 2026

Raoul Auernheimer: A sophisticated woman, Viennese gossip

Arthur Schnitzler:

Christmas shopping (from Anatol)

Half two

The young wife and the husband (from Der Reigen)

Raoul Auernheimer belonged to the "Young Vienna" circle of poets and cultivated friendships and lively exchanges with Schnitzler, Bahr and Hofmannsthal. In his highly amusing and pointed dialog stories, he provides revealing insights into the world of the fin de siècle. In Eine mondäne Frau and Wiener Klatsch , the women cheat on their husbands as a matter of course. In Schnitzler's one-act cycle "Anatol", the title character loves and suffers as a lovesick Viennese bon vivant who, despite fleeting pleasures, only feels existential boredom as a "melancholic of love".

On the stage of the Narzbergergut, Nicole Beutler and Joseph Lorenz, two TV and stage stars of our time, provide insights into the lifestyle of such decadence. An evening that relentlessly caricatures the social types of the time and exposes the double standards.

ARTISTS

Nicole Beutler, narrator

Joseph Lorenz, narrator