Dorothea Angermann (drama)

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Dorothea Angermann is a play in five acts by the German Nobel Prize winner for literature Gerhart Hauptmann , which was composed in 1925 and premiered on November 20, 1926 in the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt under Max Reinhardt with Dagny Servaes in the title role. Her husband Mario Malloneck played Oskar Homolka and the father Pastor Paul Angermann was Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur . In the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Julius Gellner ), in the Leipziger Schauspielhaus , in the Thalia Theater Hamburg , in the United City Theaters in Barmen-Elberfeld , in the State Theater in Braunschweig and on eleven other German-speaking theaters, the play was staged almost synchronously as a ring premiere.

A “young woman loses her place in bourgeois life because of a single misstep and is broken by the conflict between her instincts and the mendacious moral concepts of her environment”.

Gerhart Hauptmann on a painting by Lovis Corinth from 1900

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The Germanist Dr. Herbert Pfannschmidt and his brother Hubert inherited the Schwarzer Adler inn in the Silesian seaside resort of Bornwiese. The young woman Dorothea, daughter of the 43-year-old prison pastor Paul Angermann in Liegnitz , learned to cook from the 23-year-old chef Mario Malloneck in this inn. Herbert proposes to pretty Dorothea. As soon as he becomes professor and chief librarian in Breslau , the wedding should take place. Dorothea does not agree.

2

Prof. Dr. Herbert Pfannschmidt visits Pastor Angermann in his Liegnitz official apartment and asks him for the hand of his daughter Dorothea. The father happily says yes. Dorothea has to refuse. Mario Malloneck, her trainer at the stove, got her pregnant. The pastor is beside himself. Dorothea, his daughter from his first marriage, has to marry her seducer. Malloneck is settled with money. The twelve thousand marks come from Dorothea's inheritance. The pastor's only condition: the couple must emigrate to America on the next steamer after the wedding. The heartless Angermann is anything but a food lover. After the death of his first wife, the pastor has a baby with his 19-year-old second wife Clare.

3

A year later in Meriden / Connecticut : Herbert's brother, the almost 40-year-old Hubert Pfannschmidt, did everything wrong in the States . He gnaws at the hunger cloth with his wife and children. Dorothea found out Hubert's address by chance and went to see him. She says her husband "chased her into the streets" in America; she had to raise money. Malloneck has long since brought through the inherited fortune. Dorothea leaves Hubert's family "surprisingly quickly". She collapses on the street and is taken to the poorhouse hospital.

Herbert looks for his brother and brings good news. Parental assets will also allow Hubert to make a living in Germany. Hubert, in his homesickness, raves about the beautiful German town of Wildungen . Herbert likes working in the library in Breslau. He will probably marry a Wroclaw city council daughter.

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Less than five weeks later, Malloneck appears in Hubert's Meriden apartment and wants to find out the address of his wife. Malloneck goes without having achieved anything. Enter HERBERT and DOROTHEA. Herbert confesses to Dorothea that he traveled to America because of her. Dorothea confesses to him that she had a miscarriage during the strenuous crossing . The couple embraces; sits down tightly embraced on the divan. Hubert comes in and points out that the brother is just hugging a married woman.

Malloneck appears. Any comparison is out of the question for him. He wants to pick up his wife. After verbal derailments between the two parties, the Pfannschmidt brothers attack Malloneck. Dorothea separates the men and takes her husband's side. She disillusioned Herbert with the confession that she was "a bundle of whipped dark instincts" and that she had "ardent longing for annihilation".

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Hubert Pfannschmidt, eight months later, living with his family in a small property with a garden near Hamburg , suffers from a venereal disease. He took Dorothea into his family. Dorothea reports to him that Malloneck “fell asleep under morphine ”.

Dorothea's father is arriving. The pastor wants to see that everything is right. Herbert joins them. He married the woman from Wroclaw and accepts congratulations. Because he will become a father.

When the pastor again blames his daughter Dorothea for her situation and considers herself innocent, she confesses: "I myself killed a person, and I was at least an accessory to several similar deeds!" Then the father wants her into a closed one Leave the institution stuck. Dorothea takes her own life. Prof. Dr. Herbert Pfannschmidt leaves Hamburg. He is expected to attend a meeting in Wroclaw.

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  • 1926, Alfred Polgar thinks the material is no longer up-to-date: "Fathers who destroy their daughter in order to repair their marriage no longer play in the theater that concerns us." Herbert Ihering names those with Werner Krauss and Helene Thimig cast a disrespectful “museum evening” in Berlin premieres under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in 1927.
  • 1926, Heinrich and Thomas Mann defended Gerhart Hauptmann from opponents after protests during the Munich premiere.
  • Harry Graf Kessler thinks that the second and fifth acts with the pastor's appearances are “the most bitter and humane captain”.
  • 1952, Mayer praises: "... the hardness of heart and the inhumanity of Pastor Angermann, which can be felt behind unctuous speeches, are described by the poet with great power and authenticity."
  • 1954, Fiedler notices the socially critical impetus: For example, marriage - in its sense a covenant of lovers - is used as a cover to legitimize and perpetuate a regrettable, moral derailment. A clergyman, sending good news, connects his daughter with a depraved subject and thereby seals her downfall. ”“ The villain [Malloneck] stands on legal ground, but true love must bow to bourgeois morality. ”And to the tragic as well as to The unconventional and carefree Hauptmann character lead here is aptly stated by Fiedler: “Dorothea is a slave who lets her husband drive her into the alleys of the underworld, in the first surge she grabs the saving hand of a loved one, a few minutes later without anyone Motivation to sink back into their miserable existence. "
  • 1995, Leppmann names autobiographical references. As a youth, Hauptmann lived with the prison chaplain Gauda in Breslau and as an adult, more precisely in 1894, he visited Alfred Ploetz in Meriden.
  • 1998, Marx complains about the credibility of the America passages in particular: “The grotesque coincidences that Hauptmann provides in order to drive the plot towards its end are among the aesthetic weaknesses of the play.” In addition, Herbert Pfannschmidt is not the guy who drew Dorothea the monster Malloneck could snatch away. The unworldly professor wanted to see the "innocent pastor's child" in Dorothea.

literature

Book editions

First edition:
  • Dorothea Angermann. Play. S. Fischer, Berlin 1926
Output used:
  • Dorothea Angermann. Play. P. 387–497 in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected dramas in four volumes. Vol. 3,617 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leppmann, p. 350, 11. Zvo
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 444, 7th Zvu
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 463, 14. Zvo
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 476, 12. Zvu
  5. ↑ see also Marx, p. 205, 7. Zvu and Fiedler, p. 35, 7. Zvo
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 483, middle
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 493, 9. Zvo
  8. ↑ Polgar, quoted in Marx, p. 209 middle from Marcel Reich-Ranicki (ed.): Alfred Polgar - Kleine Schriften , Vol. 5, Reinbek 1985, p. 444
  9. ^ Sprengel, p. 607, 9. Zvo
  10. ^ Ihering, quoted in Leppmann, p. 349, 17. Zvu
  11. ↑ Marx, p. 207, 11. Zvo; see also p. 208, 15. Zvo
  12. ↑ Marx, p. 208 above about Harry Graf Kessler
  13. ↑ Mayer, p. 70, 14. Zvo
  14. ^ Fiedler, p. 37, 14. Zvo
  15. ↑ Fiedler, p. 37, 11. Zvu
  16. ^ Fiedler, p. 38, 9. Zvo
  17. ↑ Leppmann, p. 350, 7. Zvo
  18. ↑ Marx, p. 209, 4. Zvo; see also Fiedler, p. 34, 13. Zvo
  19. ↑ Marx, p. 208, middle
  20. ^ First edition S. Fischer, Berlin 1926