Old Heidelberg
Alt-Heidelberg is a play by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster , which was performed for the first time on November 22, 1901 at the Berlin Theater . The title goes back to Joseph Victor von Scheffel's poem Alt-Heidelberg, du fein . Meyer-Förster dramatized his story Karl-Heinrich (1898).
action
Alt-Heidelberg is the story of the Heidelberg student life of Hereditary Prince Karl-Heinrich from the fictional duchy of Saxony-Karlsburg (derived from Saxony-Coburg ). Karl-Heinrich becomes a member of the fictional Corps Saxonia Heidelberg, immerses himself in the student liaison system and falls in love with the landlord's daughter Käthie (see also Filia hospitalis ). But after four months, the raison d'état calls him back home for a befitting marriage. He leaves Heidelberg and Käthie to succeed his uncle.
Karl Heinrich. We'll keep it, Käthie. I don't forget you and you don't forget me. We won't see each other again, but we won't forget each other. My longing for Heidelberg was the longing for you - and I found you again. (Kisses her for a long time.) Farewell, Käthie. (He goes.)
Käthie (stands with arms hanging limply, looks after him).
Karl Heinrich (turns again). I only loved you, Käthie, of all people only you. (Kisses her, leaves.)
Käthie (stands in silence, stares after him for a few seconds. Then she claps her hands over her face and sobs bitterly).
reception
Alt-Heidelberg was one of the most frequently performed German theater plays in the first half of the 20th century, even if Bertolt Brecht called it a "mess", Alfred Döblin an "organ organ " and Kurt Tucholsky an "old tearful scrap" .
The piece made the name Heidelberg famous worldwide and became compulsory reading for Japanese German students in Japan during the Meiji period .
Bertolt Brecht portrayed the episode between the young prince and his obsequious old servant as the epitome of outdated class boundaries , which the audience applauded for his lack of understanding even after the First World War . The awareness that such opposites had been overcome in the real world, however, fueled the audience success.
The spectacle was a model for the highly successful Broadway - operetta The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg (1924), in which a chorus of students in Couleur (one of the few successful on Broadway Männerchöre) is happening with student songs with painted. The play was in the repertoire of the Heidelberg Castle Festival for thirty years and was performed there in English with American actors.
Film adaptations
- Old Heidelberg (USA 1915, directed by John Emerson ) with Wallace Reid and Dorothy Gish
- Alt-Heidelberg (Germany 1923, directed by Hans Behrendt ) with Paul Hartmann and Eva May
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (USA 1927, directed by Ernst Lubitsch ) with Ramón Novarro and Norma Shearer (based on the operetta)
- The Student Prince (USA 1954, directed by Richard Thorpe ) with Edmund Purdom and Ann Blyth (based on the operetta)
- Alt Heidelberg (Germany 1959, director: Ernst Marischka ) with Christian Wolff and Gert Fröbe
Radio plays
Note: The radio plays (broadcasts), which were created between 1924 and 1927, all had to be broadcast live due to the lack of recording devices.
- 1924: Scenes from Alt Heidelberg - Director: Not specified ( Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG))
- Speaker: Not specified
- 1924: Old Heidelberg. Drama in five acts - arrangement (word): Hans Bodenstedt ; Director: Hermann Beyer ( NORAG )
- Speaker: Konrad Gebhardt , Isa Roland , Karl Pündter , Eugen Moebius , Richard Ohnsorg , Hans Böttcher and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Drama in five acts - Director: Fritz Ernst Bettauer ( Schlesische Funkstunde )
- Speaker: Friedrich Reinicke , Willy Koch , Max Schliebener , Gerhard Kunze , Richard Hellmann , Fritz Raff and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Drama in 5 acts (2 live broadcasts) - Adaptation (word): Hans Bodenstedt; Director: Hermann Beyer (NORAG)
- Speaker (1st live broadcast): Hermann Beyer, Isa Roland, Karl Pündter, Eugen Moebius, Hans Freundt , Richard Ohnsorg and others
- Speaker (2nd live broadcast): Hermann Beyer, Isa Roland, Ernst Pündter , Fritz Bley , Max Pratsch , Bernhard Jakschtat and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Drama in 5 Acts (3 other live broadcasts) - Director: Fritz Ernst Bettauer (Silesian Radio Lesson)
- Speaker: Friedrich Reinicke, Grete Sprengholz , Willy Koch, Fritz Ernst Bettauer, Max Schiebener, Gerhard Kunze and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Scenes from Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play (2 live broadcasts) - adaptation (word): Heinz Herbert Brausewetter ; Director: Not specified ( ORAG )
- Speaker: Heinz Herbert Brausewetter, Elly Böhm , Kurt Lesing , Hans Jörg Adolfi , Walter Triebel , Willy Bankel and others
- 1925: Alt-Heidelberg - Director: Alfred Braun ( Funk Hour Berlin , Sendespielbühne - Department: Drama)
- Speaker: Alfred Braun, Ilse Muth , Carl Wallauer , Wilhelm Krüger , Otto Kronburger and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Drama in 5 acts - Director: Ernst Pündter (NORAG)
- Speaker: Hermann Beyer, Karl Schmidt , Hans Kersten , Fritz Gode , Carl Wallauer, Hans Baas and others
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Drama in 5 acts - Director: Not specified (ORAG)
- Speaker: Not specified
- 1925: Old Heidelberg. Play in five acts (2 live broadcasts) - Director: Heinz Hilpert ( Südwestdeutscher Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG))
- Speaker: Fritz Odemar , Margarete Wolff , Alexander Engel , Heinz Hilpert, Carl Luley , Thessa Klinkhammer and others
- 1926: Alt-Heidelberg (3 live broadcasts) - Director: Hans Bogenhardt ( WEFAG )
- Speaker: Hermann Probst , Helene Heinrich , Erwin Bowe , Georg Feuerherd , Oskar Walleck , Hans Bogenhardt and others
- 1926: Old Heidelberg. From the Great Playhouse in Berlin - Director: Alfred Braun (Funk-Hour Berlin)
- Speaker: Alfred Braun, Marianne Kupfer , Ernst Dernburg , Hugo Bauer , Kurt Mühlhardt , Richard Körner and others
- 1927: Old Heidelberg. Drama in five acts - adaptation (word) and direction: Carl Struve (SÜRAG)
- Speaker: Carl Struve, Thea Struve-Jöhnssen , Ernst Stockinger , Ludwig Puschacher , Theodor Brandt , Max Heye , Erna Fassbinder and others
- 1927: Old Heidelberg. Drama in five acts - adaptation (word) and direction: Rudolf Hoch ( German hour in Bavaria )
- Speaker: Karl Ludwig Diehl , Ewis Borkmann , Eberhard Kreysern , Hans Renau , Otto König , Max Weydner and others
- 1958: Alt-Heidelberg - Adaptation (word): Hartmann Goertz ; Musical facility: Raimund Rosenberger ; Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm ( BR )
- Speaker: Erik Schumann , Chariklia Baxevanos , Walter Rilla , Hans Leibelt , Gert Westphal , Günter Pfitzmann , Lukas Ammann , Michl Lang , Reinhard Glemnitz and others
See also
literature
- Oliver Fink: Memories of happiness. How the memory of Alt-Heidelberg was invented, maintained and fought. Publishing house for regional culture, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002. ISBN 3-89735-209-5 .