JEDERMANN RELOADED 2.0 | Philipp Hochmair, Die Elektrohand Gottes & Kurt Razelli

“The Story of the Rich Man’s Life and Death” becomes a haunting overall experience and makes everyone recognizable as a contemporary who is burning up in his insatiable greed for money and intoxication. The theme is timeless and eternally valid: what is left of my life when it comes to dying?
Started as an experiment at Hamburg’s Thalia Theater in 2013, Hochmair and his band have been developing the performance ever since. Work in progress. Spontaneous guest appearances such as those by Patricia Aulitzky, Ulrike Beimpold and Johannes Silberschneider underline the idea of the jam session and open up the concept of the monological structure time and again. Highlights of the debate were the performances at Vienna’s Burgtheater and the benefit concert at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the fall of 2018.

Many years of intensive study of Hofmannsthal’s original text enabled Hochmair to stand in overnight for Tobias Moretti, who had fallen ill, in the summer of 2018 and – to unanimous acclaim from the press and audience – take on the role of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. In the summer of 2024, Philipp Hochmair celebrated a celebrated “Jedermann comeback” at the Salzburg Festival – again in the leading role – and he also returned to the Cathedral Square in Salzburg for a new season in 2025.
“While Hofmannsthal wanted to make the present visible in the past, our interpretation brings out the ephemeral in the present with the attitude of a rock concert.” (Philipp Hochmair)