Queer actor Mark Waschke will engage with the contradictions and ruptures in Thomas Mann’s body of work during an event at Theater Lübeck on October 24. In a blend of readings and artistic performance, he aims to trace Mann’s evolution from a writer long deemed apolitical to a politically engaged citizen, according to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck’s Cultural Foundation, the event’s organizer.
For the program, he will read from Mann’s political essays, speeches, and diary entries.
Waschke—who played Christian Buddenbrook in 2008 in Heinrich Breloer’s film adaptation of Mann’s Buddenbrooks—will present the program titled “Widerspruch notwendig” (“A Necessary Contradiction”) on the Kammerspiele stage of Theater Lübeck, starting at 7:30 p.m.
