FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): Politikkommentar: The Kashmir Issue & Sabre-Rattli...
FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles (Satis Shroff) On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles By Satis Shroff Foto courtesy: pixaby Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krvzingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a hill. In the town below is a Gasthaus called Zum Lvwen (To the Lion). The tavern has a fresco on the wall by Prof. Fritz Geiges on the front wall depicting the Devil ' Mephistopheles in the process of breaking the neck of a broken down Dr. Faustus. Below the fresco is a wonderful calligraphic scripture with the words: In anno 1539 in Leuen-to-Staufen Dr Faustus, an astounding nigromantic, died miserably as a legend says, at the hands of the highest Devil named Mephistopheles, whom he called his brother-in-law as long as he lived, after the Pact whi...