Bis auf Weiteres unsterblich (2025)

Twenty-two-year-old Marie Adamus comes to Vienna to study landscape architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Her family runs an organic horticultural business. Below her Vienna apartment on Kleine Neugasse, where her mother Andrea had lived before she became pregnant, is the pub Zum Nockerten. Its name was inspired by the naked man sung about in the song “Jö schau,” who is at Café Hawelka. At the pub, Marie meets Paul, who works there as a waiter and occasionally performs as a singer and guitarist. In the apartment, Marie finds her mother’s guitar and asks Paul to tune it. Marie learned to play the instrument as a child but later stopped. At Charlie’s record shop, Record Box, on Mittelgasse, Marie runs into Marianne Mendt. Paul suggests that Marie take singing lessons from Marianne. A romantic relationship develops between Paul and Marie. Andrea catches them together when she unexpectedly shows up at the Vienna apartment. Marie tells her mother that she is not interested in her studies and wants to make music instead. Her mother wants to protect her and spare her the experiences she herself had to go through as a young woman, so she advises Marie against it. Through her persistence, Marie convinces Marianne to give her singing lessons, even though Marianne no longer teaches. After Grandpa Martin hears Andrea singing at home, he fires her so that she can pursue her dream of making music. He had never understood why she had stopped making music after becoming pregnant and after her mother died. Andrea had previously released the record “Bis auf Weiteres unsterblich.” She had kept her former music career a secret from her daughter because she did not want to be reminded of it over and over again. Paul and Marie have a falling-out after his girlfriend Sarah returns from a trip to Asia lasting several months. Marie initially wants to withdraw from the music competition they had planned to enter together, then decides to go ahead on her own. In the meantime, however, Paul has removed her from the list of entrants, as she had demanded. Marie arranges a meeting between her mother and Marianne so that she can convince Marianne that Marie should continue pursuing a music career. From Andrea’s friend Nina, Marie learns that she and Andrea had been Marianne’s students. At the time, they were supposed to represent Austria at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Stadtleuchten.” Andrea was then in a relationship with Klaus Feuerstein, a recording-studio owner. After Andrea disappeared because of her pregnancy and her mother’s cancer, Alf Poier was sent to Riga instead as Austria’s entry. Marie and Paul track down Klaus Feuerstein, whom Marie believes is her father, at his studio. However, Andrea clarifies that Klaus is not Marie’s father; Tom, from her former band, is. Andrea eventually gets her band back together, with Klaus, Tom, and Nina, and Paul and Marie take part in the music competition with them, performing “Stadtleuchten.”