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Dame Kobold ( Spanish La Dama duende ) is a cape and sword - comedy of the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca . Calderón created a material from a play of the same name by Tirso de Molina , which is lost today. The drama premiered in Madrid in 1629 and first published in print in 1636. It has been translated into German several times, set to music and filmed several times, and is one of the most played pieces by Caldéron in the German-speaking world.

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  • Don juan
  • Don Luis, his brother
  • Doña Angela, her sister
  • Doña Beatrice
  • Don Manuel, friend of don Juan
  • Isabel, Doña Angela's maid
  • Clara, Doña Beatriz's maid
  • Rodrigo, servant of Don Luis
  • Cosme, servant of Don Manuel (a Gracioso role)
  • Servants of Doña Angela
  • Servants

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The young widow Doña Angela is hidden from the world by her brothers Don Luis and Don Juan. Sometimes she only manages to leave the house with her maid Isabel when she is heavily veiled. On one of these occasions, she is harassed on the street - undetected - by her own brother Luis. Don Manuel, who happened to be present, came to her aid.

Don Manuel turns out to be a friend of don Juan and is invited to live in the family home. He is given a room that is connected to Angela's room by a secret door in a closet. Angela and the maid Isabel now play pranks on him at night and make him and his servant Cosme believe that a goblin is haunted in the house. After numerous entanglements, Don Luis challenges Don Manuel to a duel, as he sees his sister's honor tainted. But in the end everything unravels and Doña Angela and Don Manuel become a couple.

Translations and edits

German translations

The first German translation was published by Johann Diederich Gries in 1817, another by Ferdinand von Biedenfeld (using the previous one) in 1829 , and another by Reinhold Baumstark in 1869 . The translation and adaptation by Adolf Wilbrandt , published in 1883, was very successful on the German stage.

A free adaptation by Hugo von Hofmannsthal was created in 1918 and premiered on April 3, 1920 under the direction of Max Reinhardt in the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Otto Freiherr von Taube (1935), Hans Schlegel (1936/1958), HC Artmann (1969) and Wolfgang Tauberger (1986) provided further translations and arrangements .

Settings

Carl Reinecke (1854–1855, op. 51) composed an overture to the play . The comedy was set to music as an opera in 1869 by Joachim Raff (op. 154). His opera in three acts with a libretto by Paul Reber premiered on April 9, 1870 in Weimar . The setting of Felix von Weingartner to his own libretto (op. 57) was premiered in Darmstadt in 1916 . In 1964 Gerhard Wimberger's opera (libretto by the composer and by Wolfgang Rinnert based on Hofmannsthal's free translation) premiered in Frankfurt am Main .

Film adaptations

The comedy was filmed in Argentina in 1945.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: La dama duende  - Sources and full texts (Spanish)
Commons : La dama duende  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notes at IMSLP
  2. ↑ La dama duende in the Internet Movie Database (English); for further films see IMDb