STEFAN JÜRGENS - "DRACULA"

The Irish writer Bram Stoker tells his story Dracula, published in 1897, through diary entries, correspondence, telegrams, and newspaper reports.

Stefan Jürgens has created an exciting and captivating reading performance from the most famous of all vampire novels. Focused on the essentials (100 min.) and enriched with atmospheric sound and music interludes as well as his piano, he provides the audience with an extraordinary listening experience.

With music by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Chopin, Kilar, among others: “I am Dracula, and I welcome you.”

When Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, embarks on a journey to the remote land of Transylvania in 1875 to assist a nobleman named Count Dracula with a real estate transaction in England, he unknowingly opens the door to an ancient, terrible secret. His journey, which begins with a sense of adventure, quickly transforms into pure horror as he starts to uncover the dreadful truth about his host and the true nature of the castle: it is a prison from which he cannot escape. While his fiancée Mina eagerly and anxiously awaits Jonathan's return to England, Jonathan makes one last desperate attempt to flee from the gloomy castle. Weeks later, a ghost ship drifts off the coast of England, and horrifying events begin to unfold in the coastal town of Whitby. As a team of vampire hunters, consisting of Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Dr. John Seward, and Arthur Holmwood, comes together and begins their hunt for the blood count, the hunters soon find themselves being hunted.

Stefan Jürgens

As a founding member of the legendary RTL Samstag Nacht, a TATORT and SOKO WIEN/DONAU commissioner, a theater actor, and a musician with seven solo albums, Stefan Jürgens draws confidently and joyfully from his well-filled pots accumulated over more than 30 years in his stage performance. Jürgens offers his audience a constant mix of highly emotional songs with fantastic lyrics, profound poetry, biting stand-up comedy, and unflinching self-irony.

Duration: approximately 100 minutes.