Fritz Rotbein is a resident of the Berghof. Hans and Joachim visit the young man and bring him flowers during Hans’s phase of spending time with the Berghof’s “poor sick.” Rotbein is so happy to have visitors that he actually weeps. He begs the cousins to come back again, but he undergoes an unsuccessful operation and dies before they have the chance.
Get the entire The Magic Mountain LitChart as a printable PDF.
Fritz Rotbein Character Timeline in The Magic Mountain
The timeline below shows where the character Fritz Rotbein appears in The Magic Mountain. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 5, Chapter 8: Danse Macabre
Hans’s next target is a young man named Fritz Rotbein , to whom Hans and Joachim hand deliver a bouquet of roses. The young man...
(full context)
