Mephisto

Drama of a Career

Producer Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Opening 25. 5. 2011 Zgornja dvorana, Slovensko mladinsko gledališče
Running time 1 hour 45 minutes. No interval.
 

Translator of the novel Lado Kralj
Director Eduard Miler
Dramaturges Žanina Mirčevska, Tomaž Toporišič
Set designer Branko Hojnik
Costume designer Jelena Proković
Music selected by Eduard Miler
Language consultant Mateja Dermelj
Choreographer Maša Kagao Knez
Lighting designer Matjaž Brišar
Sound designer Silvo Zupančič
Make-up designer Barbara Pavlin
Stage designer Janez Pavlovčič

Hendrik Höfgen Dario Varga
Juliette Maša Kagao Knez as guest
Angelika Sielbert Romana Šalehar
Barbara Bruckner Daša Doberšek
Otto Ulrichs Robert Prebil
Hans Miklas Matija Vastl
Lotte Lindenthal Maruša Geymayer-Oblak
Prime minister Boris Kos
Dora Martin Olga Grad
Oskar von Kroge Ivan Rupnik

Author Klaus Mann, the son of the novelist Thomas Mann, is one of the most important representatives of the emigrant, anti-Nazi literature who, disappointed with the post-war Europe, took his own life in Cannes in 1949. His 1936 novel Mephisto is an early literary testimony about the rise of Nazism. "The pact with the devil” that actor Hendrik Höfgen signs with the Nazis in Mephisto is an important topic for all the regimes and all times.
Are we willing to walk over bodies to achieve success in society? In 1982, Hungarian film director István Szabó received an Oscar for his exceptional film version of Mann’s Mephisto.