"Felix Krull" in the Chamber Games: Thomas Mann without Spirit and Wit

"Concessions of the impostor Felix Krull: Folke Braband turns the subtle schelmenroman into a rough game with over-emphasized clichés.

2025 is not only a Rilke year, but also a Thomas Mann year: The German Nobel Prize winner was born on 6 June 1875. Just in time for his 150th birthday and 70 years after his death in 1955, the theatre in Josefstadt brings the fragment of the novel "Confessions of the High Staple Felix Krull" to the stage. Folke Braband stages the stage version written by Georg Schmiedleitner and Sophie Püschel as a colorful confusion.