Wortwellen an der Donau - Ottensheim Literature Days

Name: Wortwellen an der Donau - Ottensheim Literature Days
Start: 2026-09-18T19:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Gemeindesaal Ottensheim

Friday 18 September · 19:30Gemeindesaal Ottensheim

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For reduced tickets, presentation of proof of eligibility for reduction is absolutely necessary upon entry. Thank you for your cooperation! Festival pass: valid for all events within the Ottensheim Literature Days from 18.-20.09.2026 18.09.2026: Readings with music // Opening of the Ottensheim Literature Days Music: Wolfgang Muthspiel Readings with music // Opening of the Ottensheim Literature Days Cooperation with the municipality of Ottensheim and HLW Linz-Auhof No Matter Where, Baby - Christoph Ransmayr 'NO MATTER WHERE, BABY' is the title of a collection of seventy prose texts – micro-novels – that Christoph Ransmayr has written for a series of seventy of his photographs – fleeting moments between reality and fantasy. Guitar virtuoso and composer Wolfgang Muthspiel accompanies texts and images musically. 19.09.2026: 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM with long breaks in between for time by the Danube Readings & Conversations // Literature Courtyard in the Ottensheim Community Hall: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Breath - Xaver Bayer After twenty years, HAUCH, an epistolary novel by Xaver Bayer, is published: Veit and Dora write to each other for a year, live separately, and withdraw from the present in different ways – while the distance between them grows. 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Elephants - Sasha Filipenko Suddenly, elephants live in the middle of the city, stand on streets and squares, live among people and move into houses. But everyone acts as if nothing has happened – only comedian Pawel confronts the repressed reality and risks his freedom, life, and love for it. Moderation and consecutive interpretation: Ruth Altenhofer Readings of German text passages: Lilith Häßle 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Authors in Conversation So, roughly, it happened - Sharon Dodua Otoo On the way to Timmendorfer Strand, a tense car ride between Amata and her talkative boss gets out of control – overshadowed by the memory of the Cap Arcona disaster. In the end, he is dead and she later stands trial. Dancing Women, Blue Rooster - Dana Grigorcea Summer after summer, Camil and Roxana meet in the small town of Buşteni in the Romanian mountains – separated by a railway barrier, in reality by a whole life. In these few weeks, they observe the couples in the town and ask themselves: When is love truly love? Sick men, unequal couples, telenovela beauties, and silent husbands pass them by. And in the middle of it all, their own story, which could become a love story… 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Alter Bauhof, Rodlstr. 19, Ottensheim Love! A Call - Daniel Schreiber A call from Daniel Schreiber against hate and powerlessness: He advocates for communal resistance and understands love as a political force to counteract the social climate. Moderation: Benjamin Stolz 20.09.2026: Lyrical Sunday Matinee with Music Natascha Gangl, Verena Stauffer & Franziska Füchsl in conversation with publisher Christian Thanhäuser Ottensheim.Matinee Piano: Bernhard Höchtel FRESH APPEALS & other spoken texts - Natascha Gangl FRESH APPEALS collects lecture texts that unfold their full meaning from the sensual quality of sound, intonation, and rhythm. Here, the auditory event as a unique experience in the present takes on special significance. The author teaches us to see with our ears. Kiki Beach - Verena Stauffer KIKI BEACH is a formally and content-wise challenging volume of poetry that pushes the genre of the love poem to its limits with unusual means. Exuberant, but never arbitrary, the book sees itself as a wild, utopian draft of a contemporary language of love. On the Edge of the Mühl - Franziska Füchsl For her text AM RANDE DER MÜH, Franziska Füchsl received the German Prize for Nature Writing in autumn 2025. The author, born in 1991 in the upper Mühlviertel, is one of the most important voices in Austrian avant-garde literature. She