Friday, 21 Oct - 21.10.2011 Großer Minoritensaal - Nach den Utopien – Visionen für Avantgarde und Zeitkritik
18:30 - 20:30	Gerhard Rühm (Dichter,Kopf der Wiener Gruppe/at) Daniela Seel (Verlegerin,Autorin/de) Ferdinand Schmatz (Autor,Dozent/at) Anja Utler (Autorin/de)

The second day of the festival starts off with a panel discussion designed to draw the lines within which the discourse program will operate. A selection of guests and experts (for example, composer and theorist Clemens Gadenstätter and the Standard cultural editor Thomas Trenkler) will discuss future perspectives concerning high quality, non-mainstream literature in the current bestseller-craze and the relationship between language and music as well as possible utopias regarding the fusion of Avant-garde and criticism.

Friday, 21 Oct - 21.10.2011 Großer Minoritensaal - lesung / performance - Hörstück 2.11 - "fest hier"
20:00 - 21:00	Anja Utler (Autorin/de) Low Frequency Orchestra (chmafu nocords/at)

Following the discussion, visitors are invited to a unique juxtaposition of contemporary and historical avant-gardes: Symbolic for the former is the most aesthetically radical, highly experimental writer and probably the most important comtemporary German-speaking poet, Anja Utler, who together with the (electro) acoustic Low Frequency Orchestra will be presenting a musical version of her recently published prosa debut, ausgeübt. Eine Kurskorrektur. Utler’s bricks of text that flow like the most beautiful radio static waves in small fragments of sentences, fragments of verse, vocal tracks and particles to the audience, are complemented by the sensitive work by the ensemble of Maja Osojnik, Angélica Castelló, Matija Schellander and Thomas Grill. Their vision of egalitarian, improvisation-based, highly artificial art music is realized with two Paetzold contrabass recorders, a bass and a differentiated electronic sound devices. Given the special combination of composition and improvisation, these musicians have long been considered one of the most extraordinary ensembles in the country.

Friday, 21 Oct - 21.10.2011 Großer Minoritensaal - lesung / performance - Hörstück 3.11 - „sprechtänze. solotexte und duette.“
21:00 - 22:00	Gerhard Rühm (Dichter,Kopf der Wiener Gruppe/at)

A major orchestra is not necessary to demonstrate the musicality of language. Head of the internationally coveted, nationally outlawed„Wiener Gruppe“, Gerhard Rühm will shed knowledge for the visitors in attendance. Having worked with with H.C. Artmann, Ernst Jandl, Oswald Wiener, Konrad Bayer and Friedrich Achleitner and numerous solo-efforts, Rühm is considered a visionary in his field of poetry, new audio books , fine arts and scenic art in the culturally dull post-war German-speaking area. His concept of "aural poetry," his sometimes accurately constructed vowel and consonant arrangements, other times his compositions that lean heavily on the rich imagery of French vocal Surrealism, are an essential part of any literary history post-1945.