Mephisto Page #15

...a few da ys ago, Otto Ulrichs

was taken from his apartment.

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- Is this why you've come?

- Yes, Ex cellency.

1238

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I'm fed up with you, Hfgen. These

matters are outside your jurisdiction.

1239

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Keep your nose out of this affair.

1240

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I'll give you some good advice:

Stop meddling.

1241

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You'd do better minding

your own business...

1242

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...so you won't get crushed

like a bug! Think you matter?

1243

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Ulrichs was involved in dirty work.

1244

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My State Theater manager ought

not show such interest in a traitor.

1245

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Now go.

1246

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I told you to go.

1247

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Get out, actor!

1248

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I know how much I and the theater

owe to the General.

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I also know that to a great

e xtent we owe it to you.

1250

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Dear Lotte, that's why I ask you

to intervene for Ulrichs.

1251

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- I'm so worried.

- Worried? But he's dead.

1252

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Didn't you know? As far as I know,

he committed suicide.

1253

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Suicide.

1254

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He knew the risks he ran.

I think he's more to be envied.

1255

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The Prince of Denmark

renounces rank, youth and lo ve.

1256

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He is the sa vior of the North.

1257

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The lonely knight with lofty ideals,

the ideal of purity of blood and race.

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Hamlet is a comple x character, too.

A great and simple man.

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Despite repeating myself so soon:

He is a man of the North.

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He kills. And in his

self-destructing battle...

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...he shows us the wa y to the future.

1262

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He commands us to lead a pure life.

That is his bequest to us toda y.

1263

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He is not weak, yet actors ha ve

often portra yed him as neurotic...

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...a pathological re volutionary,

thus as a decadent type.

1265

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Hamlet is a hard man.

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You will see him as an

energetic, resolute hero.

1267

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He is also a hazard for the Germans.

We constantly analyze too much.

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For the hour demands actions,

not only thoughts.

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Least of all corruptive reflection.

1270

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Hamlet is the tragic conflict

between action and inaction.

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Between hesitating,

thinking and doing.

1272

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And we, the bearers

of German culture...

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...know what to make of that.

1274

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Hamlet is a populist drama.

1275

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Neither religious,

aristocratic, nor bourgeois...

1276

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...but a work like the Greek tragedies.

1277

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So we'll abolish the barrier

between a udience and actor.

1278

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Space, light, mo vements,

sounds are e verything...

1279

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...and e ven the spectators merge

into one great, common effect.

1280

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We must bring about total theater.

1281

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A theater that shocks and mobilizes.

1282

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It cost 60,000 marks to decorate

the theater for tonight...

1283

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...and five da ys loss of takings.

1284

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A nice birthda y party. And we ha ve

to participate in this circus.

1285

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- Good e vening.

- Good e vening.

1286

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The only place you will find a

party like this is in Berlin.

1287

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Dearest Bella,

we ha ven't met in ages.

1288

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Are you well? Not homesick?

1289

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I'm sure you're fantastically well

and your great son is flourishing.

1290

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Dear Hfgen, how are you?

How is the party going?

1291

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People seem to enjo y it.

1292

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Your Hamlet was magnificent.

The boss was quite taken.

1293

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After the premiere he spoke

only of you and the theater.

1294

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Success is strange. Sometimes

you ha ve it, sometimes not.

1295

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No, dear Hfgen, you give

people something, you create.

1296

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Here the y come.

1297

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- How are you, Mephisto?

- Very well, Your Ex cellency.

1298

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I ha ven't told you, how wonderful

your Hamlet was.

1299

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I'm very glad.

Allow me to sa y a few words.

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Mr. Prime Minister, Madam,

ladies and gentlemen.

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We are proud to be able to celebrate

this da y with you in this theater.

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Since I ha ve the honor...

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...of greeting you on behalf

of e veryone present...

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...I salute the statesman and soldier...

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...friend and generous

patron of the arts.

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We admire him as our role model,

lo ve him as our friend...

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...obe y him as our master...

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...for without patrons,

art is a bird with broken wings.

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As the poet sa ys:

"Ma y the gods protect you...

1310

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...and ma y the heart of Rome

beat for your aims."

1311

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The Prime Minister wishes to

speak to you outside, in his car.

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You alone.

1313

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Nicoletta will take you home.

I won't be long.

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Well, Mephisto, what power is

looking down on you here.

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Do you feel it?

1316

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This is theater! Look at this arena.

It's almost ready. Wonderful, isn't it?

1317

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This is where

I'd stage a performance.

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Don't blink, Hendrik, look history

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