All das Schöne - das Vindobona - 2027

Das Vindobona, Wien

1. Ice cream.
2. Water balloons.
3. Being allowed to stay up later than usual.
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He was seven years old when his mother first tried to take her own life. And he started a list. A list of everything that’s beautiful. Of everything that makes life worth living.

The list grows. A hundred things become a thousand, and a thousand eventually become a million. And as the child grows into a grown man, Moritz Mausser tells a story about family and first love, about loss and depression—and about those sometimes tiny, sometimes completely crazy things that make life worth living. But on this evening, he isn’t telling it alone.

In ALL DAS SCHÖNE, there is no clear boundary between the stage and the audience. Moritz and the audience share a common space—a temporary living room where a story isn’t simply acted out, but experienced and told together.

People from the audience are gently drawn into the story: they read individual items from the list, give Moritz a cue, or slip into the role of someone from his life for a brief moment. This isn’t about traditional participatory theater, and certainly not about putting anyone on display. No one has to act, no one has to prepare anything or do it “right.” Moritz takes people by the hand, guides them through these small encounters, and supports them—so that their participation fosters a sense of closeness rather than embarrassment.

This is precisely where the evening draws its special power: the actors and the audience carry the story together. From many small reactions, encounters, and unexpected moments, a different performance emerges every night—immediate, surprising, touching, and astonishingly funny.

And perhaps, for these one and a half hours, the audience truly becomes something else: a community that laughs together, listens to one another, and searches together for all the things that make life worth living.

with Moritz Mausser

by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe

German adaptation by Corinna Brocher

*All the Beautiful Things* tells the story of a person who, as a child, begins to write a list of all the things that make life worth living. Little by little, small, seemingly mundane moments come together to form a touching story about family, loss, hope, and carrying on.

Moritz Mausser guides the audience through these memories as the narrator, connecting with them in a direct and personal way.

The hit Broadway play