A fabulous collage of anecdotes, episodes and biographical snippets that captures the feeling of the times on the eve of the First World War - based on the bestseller of the same name by Florian Illies.
The social life of a contradictory year between two eras: Hitler and Stalin might have passed each other in the park at Schönbrunn. Oskar Kokoschka loves Alma Mahler, who will only listen to him if he creates a masterpiece. Franz Kafka courts Felice Bauer and is most worried that she will agree to marry him. Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung become enemies. We meet Rainer Maria Rilke, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Karl Kraus, Franz Werfel. Poets, divas and dictators, all only knee-high, but nevertheless ravishingly recognizable and stunningly brought to life by the Puppentheater Halle.
Source of text and further information about this event: http://www.mainzer-kammerspiele.de/performances?date=2017-04
