At the ark at eight
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| Title: | At the ark at eight |
| Genus: | Theater for children |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Ulrich Hub |
| Publishing year: | 2005 |
| Premiere: | 2006 |
| Place of premiere: | Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe |
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At the Arche at eight is a two-act play by Ulrich Hub , which was premiered under the direction of the author in 2006 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then re-enacted by numerous theaters. It received several prizes and was also published as a radio play version and as a children's book.
Emergence
At eight o'clock in the ark , Hub's third play for younger viewers is the main roles of penguins: The one-person play The Biggest Penguin from the Pole was released in Dortmund in 1996, followed in 2001 by penguins can't bake cheesecake in Duisburg. The work was published as a commission from the theater in Karlsruhe, which, like several theaters in Baden-Württemberg, commissioned a children's play on the theme of 'God' in the 2005/06 season.
action
first act
Three penguins in Antarctica argue about god and the world. When one of them crushes a butterfly, the noise is complete, after all, God said: "You should not kill". Offended, the 'murderer' pulls away. It started raining. A dove tells of God, who finds the world as he made it bad and wants to drown everything with a flood - except for two specimens of each animal species, which are allowed to and survive with Noah on a ship called the ark . She gives the penguins their tickets and reminds them to be punctual: “At the ark at eight!” Now the two ticket holders have a guilty conscience, they decide to smuggle their friend onto the ark as a stowaway. They knock him out without further ado and pack him in a suitcase that they can laboriously maneuver into the ship past the stern gaze of the pigeon.
Staying in the ship is boring and it smells of tar. The penguin woke up from the suitcase and found out what happened and felt guilty because he made God angry by smashing the butterfly and causing the flood. In addition, whenever the pigeon arrives for a control visit, one of the penguins has to jump into the suitcase quickly. At least the pigeon brings them some cookies.
Second act
The cookies are all. The three penguins are homesick and sing about their homeland in a song. That woke the pigeon. Tired as she is, she doesn't notice at first that there are three penguins in the room, but she comes back again, and the penguin, who has just jumped into the suitcase, betrays himself by chatting. His spontaneous idea of pretending to be God initially works with the grateful dove, but in the end the dizziness is exposed. The dove wants to tell Noah everything and leaves.
The penguins are afraid of the punishment they will face for their vertigo. It makes a bang. A short time later, the dove appears with an olive branch in its beak and explains that the tide has receded, the ark has landed and everyone has to leave the ship in rows of two. Because of all the stress, she forgot to take a partner with her on the ark. But the penguins are one too many. So the plan comes up to get one of the penguins disguised as a pigeon from the ship.
At the exit from the ark, the four meet an old man whom the penguins initially believe to be God, of whom they fear because of the impending punishment. But it is only Noah who welcomes them to the new world. God is not a man, he explains, but he “is everywhere. In every person, in every animal, in every plant ”. But “maybe God is completely different from what we imagine him to be…” Noah reminds the penguins that they can swim and that they shouldn't have come onto the ark. A rainbow outshines everything - God has promised never to send another flood. Relieved penguins, a dead tired pigeon, and a new pair of lovers are left behind.
content
Ulrich Hub made a conscious decision in favor of the Old Testament God, "who is stricter and more rigid in his punishments than the forgiving God of the New Testament". The authority of this Old Testament God pervades all dialogues and situations in the play. As in his other children's plays, Hub plays in An der Arche at eight with platitudes from adult language (the dove said on her first appearance: "Do you have a moment to talk about God ...").
The total of seven lyrics allude to famous hits (“ I am what I am ”, “We never want to part”), but are not - as in other works by the author - direct parodies of existing songs or arias.
reception
The play was very well received by the public and the press and received the German Children's Theater Prize and the Dutch-German Children's and Youth Prize for Authors in the year of its premiere . A radio play production that the hr was still producing in 2006 received the German Children's Radio Play Prize . Together with the illustrator Jörg mill developed a stroke version as prose children's book, which was published in June 2007 with the Children's literature award of the Linz Book Fair LITERA was excellent. An animated film production by now films / Filmautoren AG is in preparation.
literature
- Ulrich Hub: An der Arche at eight, Frankfurt (publisher of the authors) 2005
- Ulrich Hub, Jörg Mühle: At the ark at eight, Düsseldorf (Sauerländer) 2007, ISBN 978-3-7941-6109-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Rhine Palatinate. April 10, 2006, archived from the original on October 29, 2015 ; Retrieved October 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Ulrich Hub's presentation on the website of the publishing house of the authors, accessible via - ( Memento of the original of August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
