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“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 …

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Andreas Platthaus on “Mario and the Magician” Day four starts with a contribution by our former fellow Andreas Platthaus, journalist and head of literature and literary life at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Platthaus reads the novella as an early statement against emerging fascism in Germany.