Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out to eat with me
Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out to eat with me is a dramolet by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard and at the same time the title of the book edition published by Suhrkamp- Verlag in 1990 in which the trilogy- forming dramolet Claus Peymann leaves Bochum and goes to Vienna as Burgtheater director , Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out to eat with me and Claus Peymann and Hermann Beil are together on the Sulzwiese . The three one-act plays were not originally intended for performance, but the first dramolet (about the move to Vienna) was premiered in 1986 at Peymann's farewell party in Bochum , staged by Hermann Beil.
Actors and productions
Thomas Bernhard dedicated the play to the then Burgtheater director Claus Peymann and his dramaturge Hermann Beil . In the first piece he lets Claus Peymann perform with his secretary Miss Schneider , in the second Peymann with him (Thomas Bernhard) himself and in the last Peymann with Hermann Beil.
The role of Claus Peymann played in the original cast Martin Schwab and the other roles Kirsten Dene . The production was expanded with the two other Dramolettes in the new production by Philip Tiedemann in 1999 from the Akademietheater and invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen that same year . In March 2001 the Dramolette found its way onto the repertoire of the Berliner Ensemble . Since then, the piece has often been played in different line-ups, not just in German-speaking countries. At the Wiener Festwochen 2006 the Dramolette was staged in a new production by Claus Peymann, in this production Claus Peymann and Hermann Beil played themselves. This event was recorded by ORF and broadcast on September 10, 2006.
The plot of the one-act act
Thomas Bernhard caricatures theatrical madness in its ambiguity in Dramoletten. His characters are real, but they act fictitious and absurd, as if they were fictional characters. For artists, the concrete people generally represent personalities full of contradictions and the irony in their actions is also understood in countries that do not know these characters, which are iconic for German-speaking theater fans : in Rome , the trilogy was published in 1990 under the title Claus Peymann si compra dei pantaloni e viene con me a mangiare staged by Carlo Cecchi . In all three one-act games, the people carry out everyday, almost banal activities while they make important professional decisions.
The first one-act play takes place in Bochum. Claus Peymann and Fraulein Schneider hold a conversation in Peymann's office and are preparing to move to Vienna, where Peymann has been appointed as the new Burgtheater director. The preparations for the move are presented with absurd means: Peymann packs the actors and his favorite dramaturge as puppets in his suitcase.
In the second one-act play, Thomas Bernhard and Claus Peymann go up and down Kärntner Straße after the latter has bought new pants and then eat beef soup in a Viennese restaurant and have a conversation about the theater, including the design of the new program.
In the third mini-drama, Peymann takes Hermann Beil on a trip to the Sulzwiese on the Kahlenberg and they philosophize over a snack (they eat cold schnitzel ). Often quoted is the statement of Peymann in this part that he wants to perform " the whole of Shakespeare in one evening ", and the sonnets at that. Also known is Hermann Beil's habit of affirming almost every sentence by Peymann with “ natural ”.
output
- Thomas Bernhard: Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out to eat with me . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-518-38722-7