
In Mephisto Jette Steckel and her outstanding ensemble stage an actor’s high wire act between pursuing personal advantage and criticising the system, while examining the issue of artistic freedom in an authoritarian regime in poetic, clear and finely composed scenes.
Artistic Team
Jette Steckel – Direction
Florian Lösche – Stage Design
Pauline Hüners – Costume Design
Mark Badur, Elias Krischke – Music
Maximilian Kraußmüller – Lighting Design
Emilia Heinrich, Jette Steckel, Johanna Höhmann – Stage Adaptation
Johanna Höhmann, Theresa Schlesinger, Carl Hegemann – Dramaturgy
Cast
Thomas Schmauser – Hendrik Höfgen
Erwin Aljukić – Theophil Marder, Cäsar von Muck, Gottfried Benn
Bless Amada – Julien Martens
Johanna Eiworth – Dora Martin, Lotte Lindenthal
Elias Krischke – Hans Miklas, Live Percussion and Vibraphone
Linda Pöppel – Barbara Bruckner
Maren Solty – Nicoletta von Niebuhr
Edmund Telgenkämper – Artistic Director Kroge, Professor, Prime Minister
Martin Weigel – Otto Ulrichs