Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.

Ludwig II

Lola Montez

Lakai Mayr / Hoffriseur Hoppe / Röhm

Elisabeth Ney

Baron Freyschlag

Graf Holnstein

Professor Gudden

Aussenminister von der Pfordten

Emmanuel Geibel / Hitler

Ludwig I / Karl May

Hesselschwert
June 22, 1972

Ludwig II

Lola Montez

Lakai Mayr / Hoffriseur Hoppe / Röhm

Elisabeth Ney

Baron Freyschlag

Graf Holnstein

Professor Gudden

Aussenminister von der Pfordten

Emmanuel Geibel / Hitler

Ludwig I / Karl May

Hesselschwert

