Cristina's journey home

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Data
Title: Cristina's journey home
Genus: comedy
Original language: German
Author: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Publishing year: 1910
Premiere: February 11, 1910
Place of premiere: Deutsches Theater , Berlin
people
  • Don Blasius , the pastor of Capodiponte
  • Cristina , his niece
  • Pasca , her maid
  • Florindo
  • Tomaso , a ship's captain, has returned from India
  • Pedro , a half-breed, his servant
  • Antonia , a frivolous person
  • Teresa , her young sister
  • in the Gasthof zu Cenedabr:
    • The landlord's son
    • The house servant
    • A kitchen maid
  • A servant
  • A citizen woman
  • Romeo , an old factotum
  • A strange old man
  • A young lady , his companion
  • A groom in Cristina's service
  • Several old women, several teenage boys, musicians, a boat guide and his assistant, travelers
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
* 1874 † 1929

Cristina's Journey Home is a comedy by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that was published in print by S. Fischer in Berlin in 1910 . The play was premiered on February 11, 1910 in the Deutsches Theater under Reinhardt . Kainz told the author the story from the memoirs (" Histoire de ma vie ") of Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) in the summer of 1907.

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Venice

Tomaso, one after more than three decades of Indochina who had returned to the northern Italian home captain, is friends with the young Venetians Florindo. Florindo, a clerk for a lawyer, introduced the captain to Cristina, the daughter of a wealthy tenant. The beautiful young girl from the mountain village of Capodiponte near Ceneda wants to find her future husband in Venice. Florindo is courting Cristina. The girl knows what Florindo wants from her. However, this is only available after the wedding. Florindo confesses his love to the girl. Cristina remains firm and starts the journey home.

Ceneda

On the way, Cristina spends the night at the Gasthof zu Ceneda. Florindo, who has followed the traveler, seduces the girl and immediately wants to steal away. Cristina wants to hold back the "day thief"; wants to make him lord by marriage. Florindo, who, despite his youth, already knows a few dozen women, travels back to Venice. Before that, he suggests that the captain, who has also set himself in Ceneda, accompany Cristina.

Capodiponte

Since the captain is based in Cristina's area, Florindo's proposal accommodates his secret wishes. He finally wants to start a family at home. After Tomaso lived in a guest room in Cristina's inn for ten weeks, Florindo meets his friend again while passing through. Florindo already has the next wife - a countess. The clerk travels with the nobles. Florindo, the “great matchmaker” learns, the captain and Cristina are getting married. The scribe envies his friend.

Poetry

The captain happily sings a drinking song:

“In the dark, the cattle feed on their food
And his lust
Gloomy, gloomy and alone,
But we should shine by the candles
With a cheerful mind and a happy chest
That we share with our friends,
May God Bacchus and the company of the Graces
Linger with us decently. "

reception

  • In his essay "Hofmannsthal's First Comedy", Alewyn classifies the play as cheerful, but "on the whole not really funny". Topics are "sensual seduction" and "erotic adventure". The characters in the piece are simply structured. The typical Hoffmannsthal "problematic person" is missing. Florindo is "as the great matchmaker, the soul of comedy". Cristina, "loyal" and "dignified", is his "counterpart". Florindo finally “leave with empty hands”. Cristina and the captain, both “tested and matured” through the adventure, are called to “create something lasting: marriage”.
  • The comedy is said to have been created with the assistance of Count Harry Kessler .
  • The author turns out to be a Nietzsche student when he hides depth on the surface of the piece.
  • Rabenlechner mentions the piece in 1931 when he considered the furnishings for first editions of Hofmannsthal's books.

filming

literature

  • Richard Alewyn : About Hugo von Hofmannsthal . 170 pages. Small Vandenhoeck series 57. Special issue. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1958
  • Gotthart Wunberg (Ed.): Hofmannsthal in the judgment of his critics . Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1972 (without ISBN, 612 pages)
  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. 924 pages. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9

First edition

  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Cristina's journey home . Comedy. S. Fischer, Verlag, Berlin. 1910. Facsimile. Digital full text

Quoted text edition

  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Cristina's Journey Home (1909) . Pp. 115–222 in: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gesammelte Werke in ten individual volumes, ed. by Bernd Schoeller in consultation with Rudolf Hirsch , S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1949 (edition from 1986), volume Dramen IV. Comedy . 580 pages, ISBN 3-10-031544-8

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Individual evidence

Source means the quoted text edition

  1. ↑ Sprengel, p.5 ZVO
  2. ↑ Source, p. 562, 9. Zvu
  3. ^ Source, p. 563, 22nd Zvu
  4. ↑ Source, p. 202, 2nd Zvu
  5. ↑ Source, p. 135, 10. Zvu
  6. ↑ Alewyn, pp. 78-100
  7. ↑ Alewyn, p. 90, 23. Zvo
  8. ↑ Alewyn, p. 82, 10th Zvu
  9. ↑ Alewyn, pp. 87, 15. Zvo
  10. ↑ Alewyn, p. 92, 4th Zvu
  11. ↑ Sprengel, p. 695, 14. Zvo
  12. ^ Sprengel, p. 494, 3rd Zvu
  13. ↑ Michael Maria Rabenlechner in Wunberg (Ed.), P. 413, 14th Zvu
  14. ^ IMDb: TV film 1965