Der Zauberberg - von Thomas Mann, Fassung & Regie Monique Hamelmann
11/11/2025
/ 8:00 PM
Freiburg im Breisgau
, Wallgraben Theater
The young Hans Castorp travels from Hamburg to Davos to visit his sick cousin in the tuberculosis sanatorium. He intends to stay for three weeks, but it turns into seven years.
"Castorp's story is the story of a simple hero. He becomes capable of moral, spiritual, and sensual adventures in the feverish hermeticism of the Magic Mountain, the likes of which he would never have dreamed of before." – Thomas Mann
Mann's characters on the Magic Mountain take a break from actual, real life. We experience people who voluntarily and sometimes even joyfully submit to the routine of sanatorium life.
And then, with a thunderclap, the First World War stands at the door – and that very society wonders how it could have come to this. And while they are still wondering, the war catapults them from the beautiful Magic Mountain into reality.
Thus, the war not only engulfs the protagonist Hans Castorp but also our entire era!
A divided society, existential fears, the specter of war… A hundred years after its first publication, The Magic Mountain is alarmingly relevant. Thomas Mann treats the serious themes of his novel with humor, his characteristic irony, and his unprecedented linguistic brilliance.