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The Magic Mountain
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THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Thomas Mann
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes - no intermission
Hans Castorp's visit to his lung-sick cousin in a Davos sanatorium is initially planned to last only three weeks. However, he soon learns to appreciate the detachment and peculiar timelessness of the thin air: "The forms of time blur, flow into each other, and what reveals itself as the true form of being is a dimensionless present in which they eternally bring you soup."
Seven years later, the thunderclap of World War I tears him from the "enchantment" of this luxurious refuge for an outdated European bourgeoisie and its quest for life enhancement in an "atmosphere of death and amusement." Just recently, he had dined with two Armenians, two Finns, an Uzbek Jew, and a Kurd at the "bad Russian table," and now he staggers into the trenches of Europe. This book of those seven pre-war years, which, like its protagonist, seemingly keeps a great distance from the events in the "flatlands," is, not least, a description of the "great irritability" that precedes this European and global conflagration.
Program and cast
Tilman Tuppy
Dagna Litzenberger Vinet
Markus Meyer
Sylvie Rohrer
Direction: Bastian Kraft
Set Design: Peter Baur
Costumes: Jelena Miletić
Music: Björn SC Deigner
Video: Sophie Lux
Lighting: Michael Hofer
Makeup for Video: Lena Damm
Dramaturgy: Sebastian Huber
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© Marcella Ruiz Cruz
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The stage of the Burgtheater is one of the biggest theatre stages in the world. The stage portal is 12m wide, the main stage is 28,5m wide, 23m deep and 28m high. At the opening in 1888 the stage technology was already innovatory and has been modernized on many occasions. During the reconstruction after World War II, which was accomplished in 1955, a stage equipment was installed that is still revolutionary today. The revolving stage consists of a rotating cylinder (15m high, 21m diameter) and four hydraulic lifts (12 x 4 m each). With the help of this technical features the scenery can be changed within 40 seconds. It is the biggest automatic and computer controlled stagesystem in Europe.
The Burgtheater auditorium holds 1175 seats, it has standing room for 84 visitors and 12 places for disabled visitors.
Apart from the stage-art the Burgtheater plays an important part in architecture and interior design of the 19th century in Vienna. The magnificent decoration, especially the two imperial staircases painted by Gustav Klimt, his brother Ernst Klimt and their companion Franz Matsch as well as the main foyer and the many statues, busts and paintings of famous writers and actors can be visited during our dailyguided tour.
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