Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf Author: George Tabori
First Performance: 1987, Vienna
Published: 1987 in German; 1996 in English
Genre: Hist. drama in 5 acts; English prose
Setting: Flop-house in Vienna, early 20th c.
Cast: 4m, 2f, extras
Two Jews, bookseller Shlomo Herzl and unemployed cook Lobkowitz, who imagines he is God, converse about Herzl's projected book
Mein Kampf. Hitler comes to Vienna to take the entrance exam at the Academy of Fine Art. The following morning, Hitler dresses in a panic, and Herzl trims his moustache and combs his hair. Hitler returns drunk that evening, rejected by the Academy for which he blames the Jews. The next day, Herzl receives a visit from young Gretchen, an aristocratic orphan. She gives him a present of a hen, and cuts his toenails. Hitler returns delirious, but is comforted by...
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