Peter Vukics (Edited by) Petra Werkovits (Edited by) - The artist colony Neumarkt an der Raab

Why is this village in Burgenland so special? Well, there’s lots of reasons: Peter Handke developed the concept for his famous novel “Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter” in Neumarkt, just as Peter Turrini and Wilhelm Pevny wrote large parts of their “Alpensaga” here. We can find H.C. Artmann, Gerhard Roth, Friederike Mayröcker, Otto Breicha, Martin Kippenberger, Walter Pichler and many other exceptional personalities on this little village’s guest list. They have worked, celebrated parties, fought, and gotten drunk in Neumarkt. Petra Schmögner and Peter Vukics explored, followed leads and collected everything they could find on the artist colony in order to tell us about it from the main protagonists’ point of view.