Issue: 2nd, 2013 | Pages: 104 | Format: 15.2 x 21.7 cm, bound

This book is the author's attempt at a literary treatment of the Faustian theme. He believes that every hermetic should deal with this big topic in some way. The form of drama in which he clothed his ideas is his tribute to Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Christopher Marlowe, but also to the anonymous authors of folk puppet plays, and last but not least to Jan Švankmajer, who did the same before him. The story takes place in Germany between 1517 and about 1541. The author drew mainly on the Faustian legend as given in Spiess's History and on authentic accounts of Faust's life collected by the leading German scholar of Faustian life, Günther Mahal. The author is, as far as he knows, the only one who literary reflected Faust's stay and death in Staufen, documented by two independent contemporary sources. The play also features echoes of the historical and political conditions in which Faust lived (the discovery of America, the Reformation, the Peasants' War), which motifs were also mostly neglected by other authors. When writing, he also took into account various Faustian psalms and his personal magical experiences. The work as a whole is, of course, copyrighted.