“A German novella becomes Italian ballet: Luchino Visconti’s Mario e il mago” by Elisabeth Galvan The Italian director Luchino Visconti brought “Mario e il mago” as a ballet to the stage of Milan‘s La Scala in 1956. Elisabeth Galvan, Professor of German literature at Università di Napoli L’Orientale, tells us more about this almost unknown story in …
“Magic Show and Avant-Garde Theater” by Kai Sina How do Susan Sontag, Thomas Mann, the magician Cipolla and 60s avant-garde theater go together? Literary scholar Kai Sina explores these connections in his text “Magic Show and Avant-Garde Theater.“ Departing from the charming anecdote of 16-year-old Sontag visiting Mann on San Remo Drive in 1949, Sina reveals fascinating insights …