Hans Castorps Reise in die Nacht
In the organizer's words:
Hans Castorp's journey into the night
Scenic live radio play based on the novel "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
by movingtheatre.de
By and with Achim Conrad and Thomas Zieler
While old Europe is coming apart at the seams, the budding engineer Hans Castorp encounters highly unusual characters on the 'Magic Mountain'.
Thomas Mann's milestone in literary history takes us into the bizarre world of a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.
Thomas Mann's milestone in literary history takes us into the bizarre world of a lung sanatorium
in the high mountains of Switzerland. The young aspiring engineer Hans Castorp sets off there to visit his cousin.
The planned three weeks turn into months, months into seven years, which he will spend on the 'Magic Mountain'. While the old Europe is falling apart at the seams and heading towards the First World War, Castorp, surrounded by the ever-changing weather, snow and ice, encounters extraordinary characters who confront him with politics, philosophy, love, illness, death and himself.
Only the outbreak of war forces him back to the lowlands, to the battlefield. Whether he gets away remains uncertain.
With subtle irony and relentless precision, Mann traces the path from words to violence, from democracy to dictatorship, capturing the mood before the First World War: Unrest, tensions, existential fears, polarization - a society going off the rails. The last sentence is both a hope and a warning:
"Will love one day rise even from this world festival of death, even from this terrible feverish fervor that ignites the rainy evening sky all around?"
By alternating between read passages and acted and radio play-like scenes, Achim Conrad and Thomas Zieler always remain close to the hero of the novel. They trace astonishing parallels to the 'great irritability' of our society today, dispense with broad descriptions of the conditions in the sanatorium and the majority of the countless secondary characters and, together with Thomas Mann, challenge us to take an alert and critical look at what is going on around us.
Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Other works (selection): "Buddenbrooks", "Doktor Faustus", "Lotte in Weimar", "Die Erkenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" and stories such as "Der Tod in Venedig", "Tonio Kröger" and "Mario und der Zauberer".
Achim Conrad has worked as an actor and singer since 1988 at theaters in Dortmund, Mainz, Regensburg, Innsbruck, Wuppertal and the Volkstheater Vienna, among others. Since 2006, he has also worked regularly as a director at the Regensburg Theatre, the Augsburg State Theatre and the Kreuzgang Festival in Feuchtwangen, among others. He is co-founder, performer, director and producer of movingtheatre.de, which focuses as closely as possible on a wide variety of life contexts "from kindergarten to old people's homes".
It has received various awards, some of which are international co-productions: Youth Theater of the Month NRW, Cologne Theater Prize, main prize of the children's and youth theater festival 'penguins days' and Cologne Dance Prize.
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Thomas Zieler studied acting at the "Hans Otto" theater academy in Leipzig after graduating from high school.
He then worked as an actor, drama teacher, director and head director at theaters in Meiningen, Nordhausen and Schwerin, among others. At the same time, he also took on individual roles in film, including in the DEFA musical "Zille und ick". He later worked as an editor and narrator for radio and as an audio book and dubbing actor. In 2005 he founded the audio book publisher zielophon.
Further information and free booking:
https://disdanceproject.de/castorp
With many thanks for their kind support to Petra Baum, Heike Engelbert and Gerd van Rijn
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