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Gustaf Gründgens war ein deutscher Theater- und Filmschauspieler sowie Sänger und Regisseur. Besondere Bekanntheit erlangte er in seiner Rolle als Mephistopheles in Goethes Faust und als Interpret des Schlagers Die Nacht ist nicht allein zum Schlafen da. In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus wurde er vom preußischen Ministerpräsidenten ...
Mephisto judgment. Posthumously, Gründgens was involved in one of the more famous literary cases in 20th-century Germany as the subject of the novel Mephisto by his former lover Klaus Mann, who had died in 1949. The novel, a thinly veiled account of Gründgens's life, portrayed its main character Hendrik Höfgen as having shady connections ...
The novel, titled Mephisto, tells the fictional story of Hendrik Höfgen, a talented actor who colludes with the Nazi powers to advance his career. The titular character of the novel was based on real-life actor Gustaf Gründgens.
Sein Verhalten in der NS-Zeit ist umstritten. Auf Hamburgs Bühnen begann und endete die Karriere von Gustaf Gründgens - dem leibhaftigen Mephisto. Am 7. Oktober 1963 starb er.
The novel, a thinly disguised portrait of German actor Gustaf Gründgens, adapts the Faustian theme by having the main character, Hendrik Höfgen, abandon his conscience and continue to act and ingratiate himself with the Nazi Party to keep and improve his job and social position.
From the vantage point of his early exile in Amsterdam, he looked back disapprovingly at German artists and intellectuals who appeared to thrive under Hitler's regime. Especially galling to him was the success of actor/director Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963), his former brother-in-law:
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In der Rolle des "Mephisto" blieb Gründgens bis heute in Erinnerung. Doch seine Karriere als Schauspieler und Intendant verdankte er auch seiner Nähe zum NS-Regime.
