1913 (drama)
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| Title: | 1913 |
| Genus: | play |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Carl Sternheim |
| Publishing year: | 1915 |
| Premiere: | January 23, 1919 |
| Place of premiere: | Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (Director: Gustav Hartung ) |
| Place and time of the action: | Library at Buchow Castle |
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1913 is a play in three acts of the cycle from the bourgeois heroic life by Carl Sternheim . It follows as the third part of the mask trilogy on The Snob .
The play was written in 1913/14. In 1915 it was accepted for the world premiere in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Max Reinhardt , but was not approved by the Berlin censorship authorities . The premiere took place on January 23, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main under the direction of Gustav Hartung and with Heinrich George as a mask. In 1924 Sternheim himself staged his play in Berlin. The text was first published in 1915 by Kurt Wolff Verlag Leipzig.
motto
Sternheim puts his drama under the motto
There is always only a little that the world lacks for salvation.
He dedicates it to the memory of Ernst Stadler , the poet.
action
The focus of the play is the now ennobled Christian mask von Buchow (whose rise is described in the Snob ) and his three children. The seventy-year-old, sick head of the company, Maske, sees his end coming, but cannot in the least relinquish responsibility for his legacy. As part of an arms trade, he wants to prove his power to his eldest daughter Sofie one last time when she begins to intrigue against him. His son, Philipp Ernst, is a first-rate bohemian , very familiar with social customs, but without any interest in business. The youngest of the siblings, Ottilie, is the father's declared favorite child, in whom he has his hopes. Recognizing the dangers of social conditions, however, she turns to other, not purely monetary, ideals.
Sternheim unmasked the economic customs of the nouveau riche industrial nobility and thus the top of Wilhelmine society. With the help of a choppy, telegram-like style, he gives the dialogues a staccato-like speed. Many of Sternheim's accusations, casually woven in against economic elites and intrigues, financial capitalism, profiteering, exploitation, the throwaway society, hunger versus power, fashion and star airs and social encrustations are still or again as relevant today as they were when the play was written.
Further pieces of the mask trilogy are within the cycle From the bourgeois heroic life (1908–1913):
literature
- The text of the piece along with detailed commentary and performance / publication dates can be found in: Günther Rühle: Zeit und Theater: Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik. 1913-1925, Volume 1 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-549-05331-2 .
- Hermann Korte: Sternheim, Carl: Comedies . In: Kindler's Literature Lexicon in 18 volumes . 3rd, completely revised edition. Munich 2009 (with further evidence).