Karl Kraus: The Last Days of Mankind

Psychiatrist. Psychiatric patient. Professor Boas. Professor Zuntz. Professor Rosenfeld (Breslau). President of the Medical Board. Constable Büddicke.

Scene 8 (p. 333)

(Weimar. Gynaecological clinic.)

Professor Henkel. Professor Busse. Female patient. Assistant. Prince of Lippe. Nurse.

Scene 9 (p. 334)

(A German Reserve Division.)

A colonel.

Scene 10 (p. 334)

(The Isonzo front. Brigade headquarters.)

Alice Schalek. Chorus of officers.

Scene 11 (p. 338)

(Divisional headquarters.)

Commanding officer. Kaiserjägertod. Major.

Scene 12 (p. 339)

(Regiment on the retreat. In a village.)

Kaiserjägertod. Starving soldier. Colonel. Lieutenant Gerl.

Scene 13 (p. 339)

(Hospital near a divisional headquarters.)

Seriously wounded patient. Warden. Singing from nearby.

Scene 14 (p. 340)

(A German Reserve Division.)

A colonel.

Scene 15 (p. 340)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 16 (p. 341)

(Goods station in Debrecen, Hungary.)

Sentry. Lieutenant Beinsteller. Second-lieutenant Sekira.

Scene 17 (p. 341)

(Vienna. Town Hall.)

Official. An applicant.

Scene 18 (p. 343)

(The Durchhalter family apartment.)

Father, mother, and children.

Scene 19 (p. 343)

The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.

Scene 20 (p. 343)

(Sofia. A banquet of German and Bulgarian newspaper editors.)

Count Oberndorff, the German ambassador. German and Bulgarian editors. Kleinecke (Berlin). Steinecke (Hanover).

Scene 21 (p. 345)

(Foreign Ministry.)

Haymerle. Newspaper editor.

Scene 22 (p. 347)

(In the Wahnschaffes’ sitting room.)

Frau Pogatschnigg. Frau Wahnschaffe.

Scene 23 (p. 349)

Three fashionable German ladies.

Scene 24 (p. 350)

The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.

Scene 25 (p. 351)

(Hindenburg and Ludendorff at lunch.)

Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Paul Goldmann.

Scene 26 (p. 353)

(Semmering. Ridgeway walk.)

The Honorary Counsellor. Old Biach.

Scene 27 (p. 369)

(Berlin, Tiergarten.)

Padde and Kladde.

Scene 28 (p. 372)

The cinema manager. A female voice.

Scene 29 (p. 373)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 30 (p. 386)

(Court-martial.)

Captain-Advocate Stanislaus v. Zagorski. The eleven offenders. Officers.

Scene 31 (p. 390)

(Schönbrunn. The Emperor’s study.)

Franz Joseph. The valet on the right. The valet on the left.

Scene 32 (p. 398)

(Kragujevac. Court-martial.)

Lieutenant-Advocate. Clerk.

Scene 33 (p. 398)

(Promenade in Bad Ischl.)

Julius Korngold. Four visitors to the spa. Fräulein Löwenstamm. Fräulein Körmendy. Bob Schlesinger. Baby Fanto. Regular subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse . The oldest subscriber.

Scene 34 (p. 400)

(Police station.)

Inspector. Policeman. Seventeen-year-old girl.

Scene 35 (p. 400)

(Berlin all-night bar.)

A raucous voice. Frieda Gutzke. Katzenellenbogen. Krotoschiner II.

Scene 36 (p. 401)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 37 (p. 404)

(German headquarters.)

Wilhelm II. Generals. Adjutant v. Seckendorff. Three officers. v. Hahnke. v. Duncker. v. Krickwitz. v. Flottwitz. v. Martius.

Scene 38 (p. 406)

(Winter in the Carpathians.)

Company commander Hiller. Fusilier Helmhake. Two soldiers.

Scene 39 (p. 407)

(Same location. Hiller’s dugout.)

Junior doctor Müller. Company commander Hiller.

Scene 40 (p. 408)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 41 (p. 408)

(A military hospital.)

General staff physician. Lieutenant-colonel Demmer v. Drahtverhau. Medical officer. Sergeant. Padre.

Scene 42 (p. 411)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 43 (p. 414)

(War press quarters.)

Captain. A journalist.

Scene 44 (p. 416)

(Army training unit. Vladimir-Volinski, Ukraine.)

Captain. A clerk.

Scene 45 (p. 416)

(Count Dohna-Schlodien, at home.)

Count Dohna-Schlodien. Twelve reporters.

Act IV Extras:

Masked figures and lemurs, promenaders, wounded veterans, cripples, the blind, beggars, doctors, officers, troops, hospital patients, sentries, cinema audience, visitors to a spa, nightspot customers, demimondaines, convalescents, the wounded, the dying, members of the War Press Bureau.

Act V

Scene 1 (p. 418)

(Evening. At the corner where the Kärntnerstrasse meets the Ring.)

Newspaper vendors. Four officers. Singing conscripts. Poldi Fesch. His companion. Turi and Ludi. Fallota. Woman selling flowers. Two leg stumps in a ragged uniform. A whispering voice. An enormous roar.

Scene 2 (p. 420)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 3 (p. 422)

(In front of the Parliament building.)

A woman who has collapsed from hunger. Pattai the patriot.

Scene 4 (p. 422)

(Foreign Ministry.)

Count Leopold Franz Rudolf Ernest Vinzenz Innocenz Maria. Baron Eduard Alois Josef Ottokar Ignazius Eusebius Maria.

Scene 5 (p. 424)

(Near Udine.)

Two generals. An infantryman.

Scene 6 (p. 425)

(The base at Fourmies.)

Territorial reservist Lüdecke.

Scene 7 (p. 426)

(Circus Busch.)

Pastor Brüstlein. Editor in chief Maschke. A dissenting voice. Professor Puppe.

Scene 8 (p. 427)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 9 (p. 428)

(The esplanade at Bad Ischl.)

The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse . The Patriot. Old Biach. Visitors.

Scene 10 (p. 435)

(Berlin. A wine restaurant in Kaiserpassage.)

Zulauf, a liberal politician. Ablauf, a liberal politician.

Scene 11 (p. 437)

(General meeting of the Social Democratic wartime election campaign for the mega-constituency of Teltow-Beskow-Storkow-Charlottenburg.)

Comrade Schliefke (Teltow). A heckler.

Scene 12 (p. 437)

(Bad Gastein.)

Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse . The Patriot.

Scene 13 (p. 438)

(Office in a command post.)

General Staff officer on the telephone.

Scene 14 (p. 439)

(Battlefield near Saarburg.)

Captain Niedermacher. Major Metzler. Wounded French soldier. German soldier.

Scene 15 (p. 439)

(Near Verdun.)

General Gloirefaisant. Captain Massacré. Colonel Meurtrier.

Scene 16 (p. 440)

(War Press Bureau in Rodaun.)

Alice Schalek. Fellow reporter.

Scene 17 (p. 446)

The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.

Scene 18 (p. 447)

The Optimist and the Grumbler.

Scene 19 (p. 448)

(Vienna. Michaelerplatz.)

Chorus of riffraff.

Scene 20 (p. 448)

(Military command post.)

Captain. Clerk.