Mephisto

Klaus Mann's novel written in exile — a satire about opportunism and the betrayal of once socially acceptable values — was immediately banned in 1936. At the center: Gustaf Gründgens alias Hendrik Höfgen, the famous actor who became “a clown to disperse the murderers” under National Socialism. Frank Castorf confronts us with the intoxication of power, the eroticism of betrayal and the charm of doom — no less seductive back then than today.