Mein Kampf
In 1924, Hitler published Mein Kampf (My struggle). In 2016, Germany allowed the book to be republished. Stefano Massini has studied all of Hitler’s speeches and the first draft of the book, creating a show that sheds light on the paranoia of the dictator and on national-socialist folly.
One hundred years have passed since 1924, the year in which Mein Kampf came into existence. Eight since 2016, when Germany allowed its republication, maintaining that conscience is the only way to avoid catastrophe from repeating itself.
For years, Stefano Massini has worked to compare the speeches from all of the Führer’s political rallies with the first draft of the book-manifesto dictated by a young Hitler in his cell at Landsberg jail. He is now staging a show in which Mein Kampf emerges with all its disturbing breadth, the autobiographical panorama of an obsessed man, convinced that he could sublimate his own frustrations into a revolutionary and crazed political project.
From racial primacy to his height as a warlord and his craving for propaganda, Massini presents the structure of national socialism, offering an unfiltered examination of the obsessive, baroque and emphatic style of the original text, pinpoint-precision theatrical study of the verbal rhythms, tones and jabs of the dictator: because an understanding of the mechanism is the only way to hinder its repetition.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Contacts
One hundred years have passed since 1924, the year in which Mein Kampf came into existence. Eight since 2016, when Germany allowed its republication, maintaining that conscience is the only way to avoid catastrophe from repeating itself.
For years, Stefano Massini has worked to compare the speeches from all of the Führer’s political rallies with the first draft of the book-manifesto dictated by a young Hitler in his cell at Landsberg jail. He is now staging a show in which Mein Kampf emerges with all its disturbing breadth, the autobiographical panorama of an obsessed man, convinced that he could sublimate his own frustrations into a revolutionary and crazed political project.
From racial primacy to his height as a warlord and his craving for propaganda, Massini presents the structure of national socialism, offering an unfiltered examination of the obsessive, baroque and emphatic style of the original text, pinpoint-precision theatrical study of the verbal rhythms, tones and jabs of the dictator: because an understanding of the mechanism is the only way to hinder its repetition.
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
Mein Kampf
by and with Stefano Massini
based on Adolf Hitler
sets Paolo Di Benedetto
lighting Manuel Frenda
costumes Micol Joanka Medda
sound environments Andrea Baggio
a Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa production
in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro della Toscana
