"Gehorsamster Diener, mein Arsch ist kein Wiener"

There are nine surviving letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, written between 1777 and 1781. Maria Anna Thekla, the daughter of one of the brothers of Mozart's father Leopold, met Mozart in 1777 when he came to Augsburg. He was looking for a suitable position at the time.

In his correspondence to his "Bäsle-Häsle" (little bunny cousin) Mozart was able for a moment to forget the continuous pressures of an uncertain future. He came to life in these letters, and let out the light-hearted and humorous side to his character. The "Bäsle" Letters are famous for their direct and frank language, which is sometimes drastically vulgar and is spiced with anal-erotic fantasies.

In 1990 Prechtl created five watercolours on handmade paper from the second half of the eighteenth century. Prechtl was especially interested in the linguistic register of these letters. He used surreal and fantastic images to convey Mozart's crazy linguistic games. The result makes bodies seem like music: "body music".