»Der Zauberberg« – Eine Erzählperformance

In the organizer's words:

Meike Rötzer retells Thomas Mann's great novel.

The residents of the Berghof International Sanatorium in the Swiss Alps form a highly illustrious closed society of idiosyncratic personalities, into which Hans Castorp is initially accepted as a guest and with whom he ultimately spends seven years because of his love for Madame Chauchat.

At the center of the narrative performance are the captivating characters, ludicrous situations and Hans Castorp's incessant search. In addition to philosophical remarks about time or illness, the brilliant dialogues between Hans Castorp's two conflicting mentors form the political centerpiece. The discourse between the two scholars ends in a duel - the world-famous novel with the outbreak of the First World War.

"Meike Rötzer achieves the feat of telling Thomas Mann's novel in such a way that she not only includes the most important points and characters, but also creates the right atmosphere. She reduces the text to the essentials, tells the story full of suspense and gives the novel, which often gathers dust as an unread brick on the shelf, the attention it deserves." (Leonie Berger, SWR3)