Jazz & Crime am Alsergrund

Edith Kneifl and Christine Neumeyer will read from their Vienna crime novels with jazz by Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik on June 27th and 28th in the 9th.

As part of the Alsergrund Cultural SummerConcentrated female power at Jazz & Crime on Alsergrund! Here innovative jazz is combined with crime suspense!

On June 27th, THE undisputed Austrian crime queen Edith Kneifl will read from her latest Vienna crime novel “The Uncanny Patient”, set to jazz music by the Viennese “first couple of jazz” Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik", which picks up on the mood of the text passages, expresses it musically and reinforces it.

When comfortable dimness meets the darkest sides of the Viennese soul, Arthur Lang, a psychoanalyst with father problems, investigates. And the question arises: Who belongs on the couch more urgently? The patient or the psychoanalyst.

Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik fetch and fetch themselves the inspiration for their songs on numerous tours through Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with 2000 joint concerts in 52 countries around the world, from the intimate jazz club to the big stage or at international festivals - from Tokyo to Tehran, Kuala Lumpur to Yerevan, Cape Town to Delhi, Shanghai to Almaty, Hong Kong to Krakow, Havana to Moscow, Chicago to Ottawa, Mistelbach to Ankara...

Presented on June 28th Christine Neumeyer her latest historical Vienna crime thriller “The Emperor’s Kiss”. The Viennese “first couple of jazz” Michaela Rabitsch & Robert Pawlik are once again providing the musical soundtrack from their own pen, which on the one hand is rooted in the styles of the jazz tradition, swing, modern jazz, New Orleans second line and blues and on the other hand merges with Balkan music, Indian and African music.
Police agent Pospischil is faced with a problem: he is missing the head of a corpse - and he has to escape fight with snooty officials from the court of the heir to the throne.

Both events take place at the foot of the stairs of the great poet Heimito von Doderer, the Strudelhofstiege.

Free admission!

If it rains: alternative date: Friday, July 3rd, 2026: 5:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m.) - 8:30 p.m.

Jazz & Crime on Alsergrund is an event organized by KULT – Association for Contemporary Art and Culture, with the kind support of the Alsergrund district council as part of the Alsergrund Cultural Summer.