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Only three weeks had initially been planned for Hans Castorp's visit to his tuberculous cousin in a Davos sanatorium. However, he soon learns to appreciate the elevation and the peculiar timelessness in the thin air: “The tenses blur, merge into one another, and what reveals itself as the true form of being is a spaceless present, in which they eternally bring you your soup.”

Seven years later, the thunderclap of the First World War pulls him out of the “enchantment” of this luxurious refuge for an outmoded European bourgeoisie and its search for an enhancement of life in an “atmosphere of death and amusement.” Just before, he had dined with two Armenians, two Finns, an Uzbek Jew, and a Kurd at the “bad Russian table,” and he soon staggers into the trenches of Europe. The book of these seven pre-war years, which seems to keep itself far removed from the currents of time in the “flatlands,” is ultimately a description of the “great irritation” that precedes this European and global conflagration.

Bastian Kraft now brings a major work of the father Thomas to the stage of the Burgtheater after Klaus Mann's MEPHISTO.

With
Tilman Tuppy, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Markus Meyer, Sylvie Rohrer

Director - Bastian Kraft
Stage - Peter Baur
Costumes - Jelena Miletić
Music - Björn SC Deigner
Video - Sophie Lux
Light - Michael Hofer
Makeup, Video - Lena Damm
dramaturgy - Sebastian Huber

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