Der Zauberberg - Burgtheater Wien

Hans Castorp's visit to his cousin with lung disease in a Davos sanatorium is initially only planned to last three weeks. Very soon, however, he learns to appreciate the detachment and the peculiar timelessness in the thin air: "The time forms blur, run into each other, and what reveals itself as the true form of being is an inextensible present in which you are eternally brought soup."Seven years later, the thunderclap of the First World War tore him from the "enchantment" of this luxurious refuge for a European bourgeoisie that had become outmoded and his search for a better life in an "atmosphere of death and amusement". He had just dined with two Armenians, two Finns, an Uzbek Jew and a Kurd at the "bad Russian table" when he stumbled into the trenches of Europe. The book of these seven pre-war years, which, like its protagonist, is seemingly far removed from the events of the time in the "lowlands", is not least a description of the "great irritation" that precedes this European and global conflagration.Following Klaus Mann's MEPHISTO, Bastian Kraft is now bringing a major work by his father Thomas to the stage of the Burgtheater with a concentrated cast.WithTilman Tuppy, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Markus Meyer, Sylvie RohrerDirector - Bastian KraftStage - Peter BaurCostumes - Jelena MiletićMusic - Björn SC DeignerVideo - Sophie LuxLighting - Michael HoferMask, Video - Lena DammDramaturgy - Sebastian Huber