The “Culture Monday” presented by Clarissa Stadler on July 21, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. in ORF 2 and on ORF ON initially recognized the theater maker and long -time Burgtheater director Claus Peymann with a detailed obituary. After that, the magazine comedian Otto Waalkes shows from his barely known side as a painter, who, with a recently published book under the title “Art in sight”, dives into art history in his refreshingly and more life. Furthermore, the program deals with the sensational and controversial project “Secret Garden” by the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa, which is intended to transform the historic residence place in Salzburg into a place of calm and amazed. “Culture Monday” topic is also a new, unique homage of the composer and musician Christian Muthspiel to the poet and voice poet Ernst Jandl, whose birthday on August 1 for the 100th time. Muthspiel tells Live in the studio about his long friendship with the passionate jazz lover. Appropriately, the new documentary “Ernst Jandl – The Language Form” (11.15 p.m.) can be seen in the magazine.
The theater maker – an obituary for Claus Peymann “
“The theater, I am,” said Claus Peymann once. A theater king and great magician who brought authors such as Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, George Tabori or Peter Turrini on stage. A never -tired theater rebel who interfered and drew attention to grievances. As a director and director, he set milestones and caused a sensation for the audience and politics. For example at the Vienna Burgtheater when he was premiered by Thomas Bernhard’s “Heldenplatz” around the Nazi enthusiasm in 1988 to cook and politicians to the barricades-and thus brought the city’s theater events at the center of public interest. One who had already written theater history at the Salzburg Festival in the early 1970s with productions such as “The Ignorant and the Insane”. A principal, an enlightened theater prince, as he once described himself, a circus director who, as head of the Berlin ensemble, saw himself as a “tear in the ass of the powerful” during his time; The even in Thomas Bernhard’s legendary dramolettes, such as “Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out with me”, became a celebrated stage figure. Until the end, Claus Peymann returned to his beloved Vienna and staged at Josefstadt. Even in old age, he still had his notorious sayings on it: “In Vienna, as a Burgtheater director, I was at the end of the Holy Spirit, came straight to God and the Pope.” The “cultural monday” lets the theater maker play in detail again.
“Art in sight” – with Otto through art history
He knows him as an anarchist fun maker, as a hyperactive stupid, who makes young and old laugh with his over -the -top songs and sketches. Whether comedian, musician or actor: Otto Waalkes has many talents. One that hardly anyone knows: the East Frisian can paint – but his first attempts ended in a fiasco. As a boy he took part in a children’s painting competition, but the jury did not believe that the pictures came from a child and he was disqualified. So the painting had to rest for the time being and so the later crowd favorite devoted himself to his music and comedian career from the age of eleven. But the visual art never let go. In Hamburg, Waalkes studied art education and learned a lot about old mastery techniques from the 16th to 18th centuries. For more than ten years, the almost 77-year-old has shown his reinterpretations of icons in art history at exhibitions in Germany. In his new book “Art in sight”, he now demonstrates his talent: On the refreshingly ,istful journey through art history-from Leonardo da Vinci to Vincent van Gogh to Gustav Klimt-the Ottifant is always on board. Otherwise it would not be a “real” Otto. The jubilee knows no fears of contact, his pictures are both homage and parody for him: “This is the same for me: the parody is my form of veneration,” is his credo.
HOMMAGE to the sound poet-Christian Muthspiel’s new Jandl program for his 100th birthday
One was a poet, a voice acrobat whose voice was an acoustic-sensitive experience. The other is a trombonist, pianist, composer and conductor. What the two unites: their intensive love of music, especially jazz. Poems have to be heard and not only read, said Ernst Jandl, who died in 2000. No question, Jandl was a jazzer, the experimental poet has received important impulses for new poems through music. At the beginning of the 1980s, Christian Muthspiel got to know and love the sound poet, often the two of them stood on the stage. The musician, born Judenburg, honored him posthumously with the soloper form “for and with serious”, today a bramate classic that was performed more than a hundred times. On the occasion of Ernst Jandl’s 100th birthday on August 1, Christian Muthspiel came up with a homage with his 17-member “Orjazztra”. “From Jandln to Ernst” is a musical approach to around 20 poems by the jubilee. The special thing about it: In the work, the illusion of a joint live appearance is created with Jandl, by acting with the voice extracted from various recordings. A program with which Christian Muthspiel initiates his farewell tour. Because at the end of the year the versatile musician wants to say goodbye to private life. Before the time has come, Christian Muthspiel visits Clarissa Stadler on the “cultural Monday” studio.
Secret gardens on Residenzplatz – Jaume Plensa’s mega project in Salzburg
Whether on Art Basel or Biennale in Venice – Jaume Plensa’s works of art are always a real eye -catcher. The gigantic sculptures and installations of the Catalan sculptor can be found between Düsseldorf and New York, London and Seoul. Even if his work, which is influenced by minimalist design, literature and music and is rooted in a poetic approach to art, repeatedly triggers debates in public spaces, he enjoys great reputation on the international art parquet. It is also not surprising that even the Spanish royal family honors the artist in his studio. The almost 70-year-old has been working with different materials such as stone, steel, glass, wood, light, water, video, language and sound for more than 40 years and invites the viewers to think about their connections to the world and to each other. At the opening of the Salzburg Festival, Plensa, with its sensational art, also wants to transform the historic residence field in Salzburg into a place of calm and amazement. He calls his installation “Secret Garden”, in which he wants to symbolize diversity and diversity with five tons and up to seven meter high women’s heads made of metal. Even if there is a few resistance, the project already passed the Salzburg Cultural Committee. Before the extraordinary sculptures are transported and set up to Salzburg, the “cultural monument” Jaume Plensa visited in his studio in Barcelona.
Documentation “Ernst Jandl – The Language Former” (11.15 p.m.)
Ernst Jandl was not only one of the bravest and most radical writers and loud poet in Austria, he was also a gifted performer. With subversive humor, literary precision and the change between dialect and high language, he explained linguistic boundaries to redesign them at the same time. The film “Ernst Jandl-The Language Shap” by Heidi Neuburger-Dumancic draws the multi-layered portrait of a language artist, whose work is still surprising, provoking and inspiring.
Characterized by childhood and adolescence in the 1930s as well as the experience of National Socialism and captivity, Ernst Jandl became a tireless voice against war, close and linguistic conventions. His texts stand for a radical form of freedom: serious in attitude, playful in sound and open to experimental. Not only on paper, but also on stage. His appearances, often rehearsed with a metronome, were precisely staged sound art. Music, especially jazz, was his great passion. The American jazz singer Lauren Newton, long-time stage partner Jandls, remembers joint appearances and his fine feeling for music. The dialect duo Attwenger, named by Jandl as a source of inspiration, also has their say in the film.
Before he devoted himself entirely to the letter, Ernst Jandl taught German and English at a Viennese high school. Later he repeatedly emphasized the enthusiasm of children for language and the creative handling of it. Inspired by Jandl’s texts, author Michael Stavarić also discovered his own form of expression as a teenager. Today he writes poetry, novels and children’s books and is a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. And the poet Lydia Haider also brings her own texts influenced by Jandl in the “Toter Salon” series.
Projects of contemporary artists show how Ernst Jandl’s language remains. Jörg Piringer’s digital performance, in which he uses self-developed algorithms Jandl texts, is a sign that the language of the poet also finds space in the digital age. A current youth project calls for young people to reinterpret their texts or their own poems in Jandl-style as Instagram reels.
Ernst Jandl’s path to recognition was anything but easy. His early texts met with incomprehension, his appearances were smiled at or rejected. However, the Viennese continuously pursued its way: his legendary appearance in 1965 marked an early highlight at the International Poetry Incarnation in the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he appeared alongside beat icons like all Ginsberg. The deserves deserved – including the golden honor of the Republic of Austria – came late.
Hundred years after his birth, Ernst Jandl’s language continues. Boys in particular discover the author for themselves many times. People on the street read his texts in the film and express what he was always: a poet for everyone.