"What do people say about me?" he asked. "Do they say: the idiot? What do people say?" (The painter Strauch in "Frost") Who was Thomas Bernhard? Misanthrope or socialite? Cynic or warm-hearted? How do those who were close to him remember him today? Sepp Dreissinger, a photographer, filmmaker, and Bernhard fanatic, has brought over 60 people to speak in front of his film camera: from brother Peter Fabjan to Burgtheater actor Gert Voss, from neighbor Johann Maxwald in Ohlsdorf to Hamburg friend Ingrid Bülau, from Suhrkamp editor Raimund Fellinger to taxidermist Alfred Höller. A large part of these fascinatingly diverse statements can be read here. Many resemble the tirades of the language and speech artist and provide a vivid echo of his personality even twenty years after his death. Introduced by Bernhard expert Manfred Mittermayer.