Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock

Universitätsring 2

1010 Wien

 

It's a topsy-turvy world: The speculator Mr. von Goldfuchs on the first floor loses his fortune and is forced to declare bankruptcy, while the penniless Adolph Schlucker unexpectedly becomes a rich man downstairs. But even in matters of love, things are in turmoil in Mr. Zins's apartment building. Orderly conditions are out of the question.

Johann Nestroy's 1835 musical satire about the whims of fortune premiered at the Theater an der Wien and became a sensation: two floors on one stage had never been seen before. To this day, this idea provides a compelling image of the insoluble dialectic between those above and those below.

(Source: burgtheater.at)