The green cockatoo

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Data
Title: The green cockatoo
Genus: Grotesque in one act
Original language: German
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Publishing year: 1898
Premiere: March 1, 1899
Place of premiere: Burgtheater , Vienna
Place and time of the action: Paris on the evening of July 14th 1789 in the Prospères tavern
people
  • Emile Duke of Cadignan
  • François Viscount of Nogeant
  • Albin Chevalier de la Tremouille
  • The Marquis of Lansac
  • Séverine , his wife
  • Rollin , poet
  • Prospère , Wirth, formerly theater director
  • His troupe: Henri , Balthasar , Guillaume , Scaevola , Jules , Etienne , Maurice , Georgette , Michette , Flipotte
  • Léocadie , actress, Henri's wife
  • Grasset , philosopher
  • Lebrêt , tailor
  • Grain , a rascal
  • The commissary
  • Nobles, actors, actresses
  • Citizens and Citizens Women
Title page of the first edition
Josef Kainz in the role of Henri (1900)
Scene from The Green Cockatoo at the Renaissance Theater Berlin , 1945

The green cockatoo is a grotesque in one act by Arthur Schnitzler . It was created in 1898 and premiered on March 1, 1899, together with his plays Paracelsus and Die Gefäßin , at the Vienna Burgtheater . The piece addresses the indistinguishability of truth and lies, of appearance and reality.

content

Paris 1789: Prospère, a former theater director, runs a tavern called "The Green Cockatoo". Many unsuccessful actors, Prospère's former employees, are regulars. The pub is also frequented by aristocrats. They hope there will be the pleasant thrill of moving between real street crooks and other rabble. So the actors play criminals. They brag to each other about their acts of violence. On July 14th , the day the French Revolution broke out , the real street turmoil penetrates the scene. Reality and play mix, and it becomes more and more difficult for the aristocratic audience as well as for the performers to distinguish roles from real people and play from truth.

Arrangement as an opera

The composer Richard Mohaupt adapted Schnitzler's piece and created the one-act opera Der Grüne Kakadu from 1954–1956 , which premiered on September 16, 1958 at the Hamburg State Opera (conductor: Albert Bittner , staging: Ulrich Erfurth , choirs: Günter Hertel, setting: Helmut Koniarsky ).

expenditure

First edition

  • Arthur Schnitzler: The green cockatoo. Paracelsus. The companion. Three one-act plays. Berlin: S. Fischer 1899. online

Further editions

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Anatol. Anatol's megalomania. The green cockatoo. With an afterword by Gerhard Baumann . Stuttgart: Reclam. (= RUB 8399)

Web links

Commons : The Green Cockatoo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Playbill for the premiere. March 1, 1899, Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ "Kakadu" showed Mohaupt to be a real talent for opera . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from September 17, 1958