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A bit with a fang that Josef Kainz wore in the role of Mephistopheles in “Faust II”.
Surely everyone would have torn over this particular fang. Because it belonged to the acclaimed Imperial and Royal Court actor Josef Kainz. In order for him to become a Mephisto, the prop replicated his dentition and provided it with the terrifying fang.
Everything that comes out of the haze of theater or opera, be it a cigar, glasses, a splinter of wood or a door handle, even banal objects from everyday life, is apparently charged with an aura. That the shoe sole that Gerhart Hauptmann lost …
Accessed on September 12th, 2021 at 7.45am from https://www.sn.at/kultur/theater/theaterfans-sammeln-geliebtes-und-kurioses-109372009