My fight (drama)

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Data
Title: My fight
Genus: grotesque
Original language: English
Author: George Tabori
Publishing year: 1987
Premiere: May 5th 1987
Place of premiere: Academy Theater of the Vienna Burgtheater
Place and time of the action: Men's asylum on Blutgasse in Vienna in 1910
people
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Schlomo Herzl
  • the cook Lobkowitz
  • Gretchen
  • Mrs. Death
  • Heavenly

Mein Kampf is a grotesque play by George Tabori , staged in 1987, about the (relatively early) "Vienna years" of Adolf Hitler as a resident of a men's dormitory in the capital of Austria-Hungary before the First World War (historically located about between 1907 and 1913). In Tabori's play, Hitler's development from unsuccessful and inexperienced aspirant of art studies to an anti-Semitic demagogue and later despotic ruling dictator is interpreted in a pointedly sarcastic way.

Tabori directed the first performance of the play on May 5, 1987 in the Akademietheater of the Vienna Burgtheater . He also played the role of cook Lobkowitz in the premiere. The piece, written in English, was translated into German by Ursula Grützmacher-Tabori.

action

The play takes place in a men's asylum in Vienna's Blutgasse in 1910 . The young, untalented draftsman Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. He meets the Jews Schlomo Herzl and the cook Lobkowitz. Herzl and Hitler become friends. The clever bookseller Schlomo Herzl is working on a novel with the working title Mein Kampf . When Hitler is rejected by the admission committee of the Vienna Art Academy, Herzl comforts him. For the first time in his life, Hitler experienced something like affection. Herzl's care for the sad man, who has never cried in his life, even goes so far that it leads him to a new career, with fatal consequences for world history. The Jew prepares Hitler for a life as a politician and even gives him the title of his novel so that Hitler can use it for his political writing. Finally, Herzl transforms him outwardly into the Adolf Hitler, whom historiography knows.

theatre

Audio

The work was released as a radio play by Wagenbach Verlag in 2002. The author George Tabori can be heard on the audio CD in the role of Schlomo Herzl. ISBN 3803140684

Movie

A film based on the play was produced in 2008 with Tom Schilling as the young Hitler, Götz George as Schlomo Herzl and Bernd Birkhahn as Lobkowitz under the direction of the Swiss Urs Odermatt by Schiwago Film, Dor Film and Hugofilm. The film was released in German cinemas on March 26, 2011, but largely failed the German-language criticism .

literature

  • Sinéad Crowe: Religion in contemporary German drama. Botho Strauss, George Tabori, Werner Fritsch, and Lukas Bärfuss . Camden House: Rochester, NY 2013
  • Mirjam Erdem: Sigmund's "Joy" and the Jewish Joke in the 20th Century . Univ. Vienna , Dipl.-Arb., Vienna 2010
  • Alice Huth: In my witching hour. Intertextuality and Memory in Works by George Tabori . Tectum, Marburg 2008
  • Matthias Kieber: Taboris AuschWitz. Jokes and comedy in George Tabori's plays "Mother Courage" and "Mein Kampf" . Univ. Vienna, Master thesis, Vienna 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dortmund had secured the first performance rights, but due to a delay, a performance in the small theater in Singen “ Die Färbe ” became the actual premiere in Germany on November 25, 1987 , cf. Johannes Bruggaier, "How the Singener" Färbe "became the German premiere venue for Tabori's" Mein Kampf "in 1987." Südkurier, April 23, 2018
  2. ^ Christine Dössel: Theater production in Konstanz - Because of Nazi ; Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (online sueddeutsche.de) from April 18, 2018
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Münchner Volkstheater [1]
  4. ↑ Mein Kampf Staatsschauspiel Dresden