The peace festival

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The Friedensfest is a play in three acts by the German Nobel Prize laureate for literature Gerhart Hauptmann , which was created in Charlottenburg towards the end of 1889 and on June 1, 1890 in the Ostendtheater Berlin by the Free Stage under the direction of Hans Meery with Emanuel Reicher as Robert and Josef Kainz when Wilhelm was first performed.

Hauptmann quickly processed parts of Frank Wedekind's vita - one of the reasons for the later differences between the two playwrights . In addition, the pianist Max Müller (1856–1938) from Jena terminated his friendship with Gerhart's childhood friend for several years for the same reason.

Gerhart Hauptmann on a painting by Lovis Corinth from 1900

overview

On a Christmas Eve in the 1880s: 46-year-old Minna Scholz lives in the lonely country house on Schützenhügel near Erkner with her 29-year-old daughter Auguste and the obnoxious 28-year-old son Robert, a copywriter . To the mother's immeasurable astonishment, the 68-year-old householder and spouse Dr. med. Fritz Scholz home unannounced and terminally ill. The doctor, who was once in the Turkish service as well as in Japan , spent the years outside in hotels. Years ago, the 26-year-old second son, Wilhelm, had run away and "struggled for a long time". Wilhelm's bride, 20-year-old Ida Buchner and her 42-year-old mother Marie Buchner had persuaded Wilhelm to attempt a reconciliation and the three of them traveled to the Schützenhügel. Mrs. Buchner wants to do everything for the happiness of her daughter. The reconciliation of the three siblings turns out to be tricky. The Christmas party goes wrong. When Ida sang the first four stanzas of Ihr Kinderlein, kommet under the Christmas tree , the argument breaks out. Sarcastically say Auguste and Robert, Ida will probably "also not be an angel from heaven". When Wilhelm does not tolerate attacks on his bride under any circumstances and demonizes his brother, Auguste slips the first and only truth in the play. She rules at Wilhelm: “You say that? - ugh, you ?! who raised his hand against his own father. " Scholz enters and turns the landlord out: There is room in the house for either Robert or his father. Robert goes voluntarily. Wilhelm, whose father had previously forgiven the physical abuse, absolutely wants to get along with his father in the future. The Father's senses become confused. He misunderstood the embrace of the repentant son as a renewed physical attack, implored by Wilhelm Schonung, fantasized, lies seriously ill, receives medical care and does not survive the excessive excitement.

Gerhart Hauptmann offers something like a happy ending. The audience can hope with Frau Buchner that Wilhelm and Ida will get together.

reception

  • 1922: Julius Bab writes that the “Scholzens” are “no less tragic figures than the Atrids ”.
  • 1952: Mayer quotes Fontane : “It doesn't look much different in thousands of families. What is given there is typical, and it is reproduced true and without exaggeration. "
  • 1980: Guthke does not want to classify the piece in the naturalism drawer because of its “timeless tragedy” .
  • January 17, 1994: in ND for the performance in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater , directed by Jürgen Gosch : An ordinary German family catastrophe .
  • 1996: Leppmann writes that Josef Kainz in particular contributed to the success of the premiere, although the gifted artist had to be prompted a lot.
  • 1998: Sprengel sees the piece compared to its predecessor Before Sunrise and its successor Einsame Menschen as the culmination point “with this entire apparatus of naturalistic technology”. The viewer finds excessive indeterminacy exhausting. What is meant are the unfinished sentences that are taking hold.
  • 1998: Marx writes about this: Hauke ​​Stroszeck wanted to "disambiguate" these manifold allusions - regardless of Gerhart Hauptmann's poetological intention.

literature

Book editions

  • The peace festival. A family disaster. Stage seal. S. Fischer, Berlin 1899
  • The peace festival. A family disaster. Pp. 185–257 in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected Dramas in four volumes. Vol. 1. With an introduction to the dramatic work of Gerhart Hauptmann by Hans Mayer . 692 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952 (edition used)

Secondary literature

  • Gerhard Stenzel (Ed.): Gerhart Hauptmann's works in two volumes. Volume II. 1072 pages. Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, Salzburg 1956 (thin print), p. 1045 table of contents
  • Wolfgang Leppmann : Gerhart Hauptmann. A biography. Ullstein, Berlin 1996 (Ullstein-Buch 35608), 415 pages, ISBN 3-548-35608-7 (identical text with ISBN 3-549-05469-6 , Propylaen, Berlin 1995, subtitled with Die Biographie )
  • Friedhelm Marx : Gerhart Hauptmann . Reclam, Stuttgart 1998 (RUB 17608, Literature Studies series). 403 pages, ISBN 3-15-017608-5
  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1870–1900. From the founding of the empire to the turn of the century. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44104-1
  • Peter Sprengel: Gerhart Hauptmann. Bourgeoisie and big dream. A biography. 848 pages. CH Beck, Munich 2012 (1st edition), ISBN 978-3-406-64045-2

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Wedekind took revenge in 1891 with the comedy Die Junge Welt (formerly Children and Fools ). A poet Meier strutting about on the stage constantly notes down the speech of his friends (Leppmann, pp. 133 and 336).
  2. ↑ Wuhlhorster Hügel near Karutzsee ( Kurt Lothar Tank at rowohlt.de and Karutzsee ).
  3. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann does not disclose why Dr. Scholz left his house years ago. The lonely viewer could guess a solid political reason. Because towards the end of the drama son Robert refers to the revolutionary past of his father: "In forty-eight father started on the barricades, and as a lonely hypochondriac he ends." (Edition used, p. 250, 18. Zvo) Wilhelm describes the Father is an eccentric and complains about his childhood: “All of a sudden he [the father] fell for us, Robert and me, he didn't care about Auguste at all. We squatted over books for a full ten hours a day ... the dungeon hole ... bumped into his study ... We resisted ... ". (Edition used, p. 217, 12. Zvu)
  4. ↑ The author cannot be accused of black and white painting. For example, Robert wants to reconcile with his brother before the scandal (see edition used, p. 227, middle).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note on the UA
  2. ^ Hans Meery in the DB
  3. ↑ Hans Mayer in the edition used, p. 36, 17. Zvo
  4. ↑ Sprengel anno 1998, p. 495, 9th Zvu and Mayer, p. 34, 11th Zvu
  5. ↑ Sprengel anno 2012, p. 73, see also Max Müller in the DB
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 232, 3rd Zvu
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 230, 6th Zvu
  8. ↑ Edition used, p. 236, 16. Zvo
  9. ↑ Sprengel anno 1998, p. 496, 12. Zvu
  10. ↑ Edition used, p. 236, 10. Zvu, see also p. 220 below as well as p. 222, 13. Zvo
  11. ↑ Edition used, p. 222, 18. Zvo
  12. ↑ Bab, quoted in Marx, p. 57, 8. Zvo
  13. ↑ Fontane, quoted by Mayer in the edition used, p. 35, 15. Zvo
  14. ↑ Guthke mentioned in Marx, p. 57, 11. Zvo
  15. ↑ Leppmann, p. 132 above
  16. ↑ Sprengel anno 1998, p. 497, 6. Zvo
  17. ↑ Marx, p. 57, 3rd Zvu
  18. ↑ Book edition 1899 Entry in WorldCat