Der seltsame Fall von Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde

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based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
in a version by Johanna Wehner
In German language

The successful scientist Dr. Jekyll researches a division of the good and evil parts of the soul and transforms himself into an unscrupulous doppelganger of himself - Mr. Hyde. Johanna Wehner stages the novella as a polyphonic portrait of society. The novella, the first draft of which allegedly goes back to a dream of its author, is set in the fog-shrouded London of the Victorian era. It made Robert Louis Stevenson famous in one fell swoop and shaped the modern horror genre. Stevenson tells Jekyll and Hyde as two independent characters - from the perspective of the society that surrounds them, unaware that they are the same person: While Hyde wreaks havoc in the city at night, provoking hatred and horror, Jekyll withdraws from the bourgeois public and changes his will - in favor of Hyde, of all people! Yet Hyde is not only the evil part, he is also Jekyll the citizen's longing for selfish action without social consequences that has taken shape. Johanna Wehner, known for her elaborately composed text versions, arranges the reports and voices of Jekyll's friends into an atmospheric portrait of a society whose basic civil conventions are shaken by the Hyde phenomenon. How much Jekyll, how much Hyde is there in us? This content has been machine translated.