Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

Rotenturmstrasse 20

1010 Wien

 

Play based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mann
Edited for the stage by Georg Schmiedleitner and Sophie Püschel

How the inventive life knows how to make the dreams of our childhood come true.

Felix is ​​a true Sunday child. An emperor who was wrongly born into the bourgeoisie and who already at a young age knows how to use his charm and changeability for his own benefit. He develops from a gifted truant to a lift boy in a luxury hotel in Paris, where he soon becomes everyone's adored favorite waiter. At the height of his dubious "career" he sets off on a trip around the world as a doppelganger of the Marquis de Venosta. Nothing seems to stand in the way of his continuous rise - especially not the nobility and nouveau riche, who are delighted to be deceived by him.

With Felix Krull, Thomas Mann has created a character of extraordinary charisma, hungry for life and love, who celebrates the art of appearances and can cheat his way to the top thanks to classy suits, eloquently displayed half-knowledge and the right amount of criminal energy.

Director Folke Braband, who most recently, among other things, thrilled a wide audience with The Perfect Secret, The First Name and Monsieur Claude and His Daughters, now brings Thomas Mann´s late work, which remains a fragment, to the Kammernspiele.

(Source: josefstadt.org)