Karl Kraus' The Last Days of Mankind and its Stagings

This bachelor's thesis is devoted to analysis of the most important work of an austrian writer, publicist and critic Karl Kraus (1874-1936), The Last Day of Mankind. The work not only deals with formal features of the text as well as with the content but it also intends to emphasize the timelessness of the central themes such as media manipulation. It focuses also on cultural and social context of the work. Using information based on available recources, the second part of the work is mainly concerned with the method by which the stage managers were attempting to stage this large piece of work in Germany and Austria. Rather large space is devoted to the only Czech production, whose premiere took place in April 2011 in Prague in Divadlo Komedie