MEIN KAMPF / Eine Farce von George Tabori

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MEIN KAMPF / A farce by George Tabori
INSEL Play / Intercultural theater project
Saturday / April 18, 2026 / 7:30 pm (Admission: 7 pm)
Admission: 14/8 (VVK incl. fees) and 16/9 (B.O.)

"What happens if you lend Hitler his only winter coat?"

MY FIGHT
A farce by George Tabori
Translation: Ursula Grützmacher-Tabori

Vienna, beginning of the 20th century.
A young man arrives with big dreams - and an empty stomach.
He wants to become an artist - and is rejected ...
At the homeless shelter, he meets the Jewish bookseller Shlomo Herzl, a warm-hearted, eloquent dreamer. Herzl takes the awkward newcomer by the hand, shapes his appearance, teaches him rhetorical tricks - and lends him his only winter coat, a kind of care from strangers that he was unfamiliar with.
But well-intentioned help turns into something completely different: a naive artist becomes a demagogue, a manuscript becomes a weapon, and even the smallest gestures have fatal consequences.
With black humor, grotesque moments and surprising irony, Tabori shows how people influence each other - and how the smallest actions can have great effects. You laugh at the absurdity - and the next moment your breath catches.
A bitterly funny, entertaining play about ideology, manipulation and human influences - more topical than ever.

Creative direction / director // Müge Yavas
Shlomo Herzl // Tobias Schaaf
Lobkowitz // René Spitzer
Gretchen // Samira-Yasmin Mwasajone
Mrs. Death // Philipp Michael Schlöter
Hitler // Jonas Biber

An event of the ensemble in cooperation with INSEL.