Die grosse Gereiztheit

Die grosse Gereiztheit
after “The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann

The penultimate chapter in Thomas Mann’s novel, published in 1924, is entitled “Die grosse Gereiztheit” (The Great Irritability). An eerie, quarrelsome malignancy suddenly flares up among the smart guests suffering from lung disease on the “Magic Mountain.” Thomas Mann follows this great irritability with the final chapter entitled “Donnerschlag” (Thunderclap) – the outbreak of the First World War in the flatlands, which also disgorges the principal character, Hans Castorp, onto one of Europe’s battlefields. They should have known, but polite society has elegantly ignored the information and thus fallen victim to catastrophic upheaval. Frank Schirrmacher credits Thomas Mann with phenomenal intuitive powers and interprets the novel as “a sensitising training course for the occurrence of unexpected events.” In the tense Europe of 2019 – whose post-war order has long since been a thing of the past – director Karin Henkel develops her own very personal interpretation of this complex subject matter.

Christian Baumbach
Actor
Ludwig Boettger
Actor
Gottfried Breitfuss
Actor
Carolin Conrad
Actor
Fritz Fenne
Actor
Katrija Lehmann
Actor
Isabelle Menke
Actor
Michael Neuenschwander
Actor
Lena Schwarz
Actor
Friederike Wagner
Actor
Milian Zerzawy
Actor
Marcel Zimmermann
Actor
Vlora Mulaku
Actor
Barblin Leggio
Actor
Raquel Forster
Actor
Alain Croubalian
Musiker
Kay Buchheim
Musiker
Matthias Lincke
Musiker
Direction
Karin Henkel, und Ensemble, unter der finalen Leitung von Maximilian Enderle (Regie) und Viola Hasselberg (Dramaturgie)
Set Designer
Thilo Reuther
Costume Designer
Adriana Braga Peretzki
Sound
Alain Croubalian
Video
Ruth Stofer, Kevin Graber
Lighting Designer
Dramaturg
Viola Hasselberg
Assistant Stage Designer
Natascha Leonie Simons
Assistant Costume Designer
Liv Senn
Stage Manager
Michael Durrer
Prompter
János Stefan Buchwardt
Bühnenbildpraktikant
Ondrej Graf
Internship Costumes
Meret König
Internship Direction
Alexander Homoki, Laura Weibel
Literary Assistant
Joel Franz
Chorleitung
Christine Gross
Support Sounddesign
Arvild Bauld
Assistant Director
Maximilian Enderle
Choreografische Beratung
Ilona Kannewurf
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