On the occasion of what is likely Frank Castorf's last premiere at the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, this "crash course in Faustian thinking, which may be coming to an end after 200 years," is presented. I curse everything that this audience might like about me. Yes, if I could somehow manage to create a work that Germans would thoroughly curse for 50 or 100 years in a row and everywhere and anywhere only speak ill of me – that would delight me immensely. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, June 21, 1818) Why should such a work as Faust even be brought to the stage? First of all, because you can do whatever you want with Faust. In Goethe, there is a justification for every interpretation. And while he gives the first part a clear form, in the second he simply writes what he enjoys.