The Magic Mountain - by Thomas Mann, adapted and directed by Monique Hamelmann

Young Hans Castorp travels from Hamburg to Davos to visit his ailing cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He plans to stay for three weeks - he stays for seven years.

"Castorp's story is the story of a simple hero. On the Magic Mountain, he becomes capable of moral, spiritual, and sensual adventures he could never have imagined before." - Thomas Mann

Mann's characters on the Magic Mountain withdraw from real life. People voluntarily - sometimes even with pleasure - submit to the routine of sanatorium existence. Then, with a thunderclap, the First World War arrives, and this society asks itself how it came to this. The war catapults them from the Magic Mountain into reality and consumes not only Hans Castorp but his entire generation.

A hundred years after its first publication, the novel remains disturbingly relevant: a fractured society, existential anxieties, the specter of war. Thomas Mann addresses these themes with humour, his characteristic irony, and linguistic brilliance. Adaptation and direction: Monique Hamelmann.