Mein Lieblingstier heißt Winter/Folge 5

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 socio-critical, subversive genre until it was curtailed by National Socialist cultural policy and is now being resurrected in a new form.
Lukas Kranzelbinder, known for the jazz formation Shake Stew, which he founded, composes beyond the boundaries of clear stylistic classification and gives the operetta its very own sound, from surf rock and chanson to choral. Director Alexander Charim takes up the bizarre uniqueness of the original and stages the novel as a concrete crime story and abstract social satire at the same time. The serialized operetta, adapted by Schmalz himself, travels through different venues within Graz Opera over two seasons in five episodes.
It all began in the studio stage last season: frozen food salesman Franz Schlicht was supposed to dispose of the body of his cancer-stricken customer Doctor Schauer from a freezer after his suicide. In the end, however, he was faced with an empty freezer, with no trace of Schauer … From the reclusive engineer Huber to the pathology department, Schlicht and Schauer’s daughter Astrid followed the trail of the missing man to the assembly hall of Graz Opera, where Schlicht’s past finally caught up with him.
In the heart of the opera house, the audience can now find out how Schlicht and the cleaning company owner Sabine Teufel’s business dealings extend from back then to the present day, and whether the frozen food representative can uncover the larger connections in the end. The episodes of this season take place on stage.