THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

Hans Castorp, a young man from Hamburg, comes to the lung sanatorium in Davos for three weeks and stays for seven years. In an atmosphere of illness and death, he becomes increasingly "lost to life" and lingers in a world where timelessness reigns. In this "extensionless present" he searches for answers to the big questions of politics, life and love. Enchanted and bound by his love for Clawdia Chauchat, he moves indecisively, apolitically and with ironic distance in an international, morbid society. Similar to today, we see a society in which confusion is increasing and people are retreating into illness. In his novel, published in 1924, Thomas Mann imagined a purgatory of modernity in which the categories of time and space are suspended and language becomes the arena of conflict.

Director:

Concept:

Elisabeth Moll

Costume:

Sharon Rohardt

Assistant Director:

Cornelia Krause

Graphic:

Janos Szursik

Axel Jankowski

Photos:

Stefan Malzkorn

Production Manager:

Constance Ullmer

Right:

Fischer Publishing.

Music concept:

Peter Matrai

Music:

Arvo Pärt "Mirror in the Mirror"

With:

Guido Bayer, Esther Barth, Jasmin Buterfas, Marcus Just, Christian Nisslmüller