Peter Turrini. Return to My Point of Origin

The “Tonhof” in the small Carinthian town of Maria Saal is the “point of origin” of the documentary film about and with Peter Turrini. Here, in the 50s and 60s, the artist couple Maja and Gerhard Lampersberg kept an open house for “completely unknown art nuts”, as Turrini describes it in the film — from Thomas Bernhard to Christine Lavant and many others. For the 15-year-old PeterTurrini, the “Tonhof” was a magical place, his “first place to call “home” – laboratory, enclave, cradle of Austrian post-war literature”. Without any resentment or voyeurism, the conversation carefully retraces the heartbeat of the “Tonhof” and its late owners.The 70-year-old Peter Turrini reveals himself as an attentive friend of the young generation, gifted with a keen awareness of the now.