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Hans Castorp's visit to his cousin with lung disease in a Davos sanatorium is initially estimated to last only three weeks. Very soon, however, he learns to appreciate the exaltation and the peculiar timelessness in the thin air: "Tenses blur, flow into each other, and what reveals itself as the true form of being is an unextended present in which you are eternally brought the soup. "

Seven years later, the thunderclap of World War I tears him out of the "enchantment" of this luxurious retreat for a European bourgeoisie that has become outmoded and his search for a better life in an "atmosphere of death and amusement". He had just dined with two Armenians, two Finns, an Uzbek Jew and a Kurd at the “bad Russian table” and he was already tumbling into the trenches of Europe. The book of these seven pre-war years, which like its protagonist apparently keeps far away from the times in the "flatlands", is not least the description of the "great irritation" that precedes this European and global conflagration.

Following Klaus Mann's MEPHISTO, Bastian Kraft now brings a major work by his father Thomas to the stage of the Burgtheater with a concentrated cast.

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