Who could play Thomas Bernhard better than Bernhard Minetti? The theater provocateur Bernhard himself said - actually only the character mime Minetti can "play him"! - After there was a scandal two years earlier and the premiere of “Ignorant and the Insane” with Bruno was canceled immediately, this 1974 production is not only a testimony to the deep connection between the author and “his” actor. “The Power of Habit” was the second attempt to establish the uncomfortable playwright in elite Salzburg. It should succeed ... This time, the director was not Claus Peymann, but the Leipzig-born actor, director and director Dieter Dorn. A piece that premiered in 1977 shows that Minetti mastered his task excellently: “Minetti. A portrait of the artist as an old man ”. Who wrote it doesn't have to be mentioned ...