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Mein Kampf
Author(s): George Tabori
A grotesque style comedy, which takes place in Vienna in the years before the First World War and dramatizes Hitler’s life in a men’s hostel. The play comedically represents his failed career as an artist and the development of his early anti-Semitism and his ironic relationship with a Jewish Bible salesman, Schlomo Herzl, who thinks he is protetecting Hitler from Death, when she is really coming to anoint him as her earthly leader.
Format: Farce
Cast Size:5M/1F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Vienna Akademietheater, 1987; Theater for the New City, New York, May 4 and 21, 2017.
Vienna Akademietheater, 1987; Theater for the New City, New York, May 4 and 21, 2017.
Nationality of Author: Austrian
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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