Mein Lieblingstier heißt Winter/Folge 3

In Mein Lieblingstier heißt Winter, Ferdinand Schmalz takes his readers on an abysmal journey through Austrian society, whimsical, intelligent and with great wit, providing the perfect template for a modern operetta. Often underestimated as shallow
entertainment, operetta was a socially critical, subversive genre until it was curtailed by National Socialist cultural policy and is now to be resurrected in a new form.
Schmalz’s novel is both a crime story and a social satire: frozen food salesman Franz Schlicht is tasked with disposing of the body of his cancer-stricken customer Doctor Schauer from a freezer after his suicide. But when Schlicht goes to do the job, the dead body has disappeared without a trace. Schlicht sets off in search of the frozen corpse and encounters all kinds of
strange characters along the way. The sequel operetta, adapted by Schmalz himself, will be performed in five parts over two seasons at different venues within Oper Graz. Beginning in the studio stage, it finds its way through the opera house to its centerpiece, the stage where the series finale will take place in the following season. Lukas Kranzelbinder, known for the jazz formation “Shake Stew”, which he founded, composes beyond the boundaries of clear stylistic classification and gives the new operetta its very own 21st century sound. The Viennese director Alexander Charim, who has many years of experience with unusual venues, completes the Austrian trio.