Mephisto

In the organizer's words:

after Klaus Mann

A man wants to get to the top, becomes an artistic director, senator and state councillor and makes a "pact with the devil" to do so. Klaus Mann's famous "novel of a career" about the actor Hendrik Höfgen, who gets involved with the National Socialist rulers, is considered one of the most controversial panoramas of the 20th century. First published in 1936 by an exile publisher in Amsterdam, the book was banned in the Federal Republic of Germany because the character of Hendrik Höfgen all too clearly bore the traits of Klaus Mann's brother-in-law Gustaf Gründgens. "Mephisto" is a highly topical story about adaptation and resistance, careerism and artistic morality.

Director Daniel Foerster received the Heidelberg Play Market's Young Talent Award in 2014. In 2023, his stage version of Gottfried Keller's novella "Clothes make the man" was performed at the Junges Theater Heidelberg.