Der große Gatsby

In the organizer's words:

A summer on Long Island in the 1920s: The young stockbroker Nick Carraway has just moved to work in the humming metropolis of New York. His cousin Daisy Buchanan lives with her wealthy husband Tom on the other side of the bay and leads a laid-back life of parties and excursions. Nick, who himself lives modestly in rented accommodation, experiences the lavish parties

of his fabulously rich neighbor Jay Gatsby in his impressive villa. The guests are numerous, the forbidden alcohol never runs out and the jazz is played loudly. There are many rumors about the origins of Gatsby's wealth. Was he involved with the mafia? And was he really a hero in the First World War? Carraway is soon in and out of his house, and the better he gets to know him, the more dazzling his neighbor appears - and the more ambivalent. For although the self-made man Gatsby has realized the "American Dream", Daisy Buchanan, the love of his life, for whom he has amassed all the wealth by not always legal means and even changed his name, remains unattainable, even though she lives practically around the corner.

Published in 1925, "The Great Gatsby" is considered one of the most famous American novels of the 20th century. In it, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the "Roaring Twenties", the time between the end of the war and the stock market crash, but also has an eye for the forlornness and loneliness of his protagonists, especially Gatsby, whose search for love and recognition leaves him in despair. The novel has been made into a Hollywood film four times, most recently in 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. A story that will develop its very own splendor in the Alte Hofhaltung.