The concert (Bahr)
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| Title: | The concert |
| Genus: | Comedy in three acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Hermann Bahr |
| Publishing year: | 1909 |
| Premiere: | December 23, 1909 |
| Place of premiere: | Lessing Theater , Berlin |
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The concert is the most successful comedy by Hermann Bahr . The world premiere took place on December 23, 1909 in Berlin under the direction of Otto Brahm at the Lessingtheater , and at the same time at the Royal Theater in Dresden and at the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main .
content
The pianist, piano teacher and artist Gustav Heink released himself from all duties at short notice because he was engaged for a concert that was held in secrecy. In reality he is traveling with his student Delfine Jura to a mountain hut, where he usually takes his affairs with him. At the same time, the betrayed spouses Marie Heink and Dr. Law together. Both of them know about the Techtelmechtel through a telegram from Eva Gerndl, another jealous student of Gustav Heink. Dr. Jura and Marie try to make the best of the situation, they join forces and follow them to the hut. There they offer Gustav and Delfine the opportunity to marry each other while they themselves are still flirting with the idea of marrying as they were left behind.
interpretation
Richard Strauss , whom the piece is dedicated to the protagonist Gustav Heink with the then director seems Vienna Court Opera , Felix Weingartner to have identified:
"By the way, Weingartner was hit brilliantly!"
The title “Das Konzert” ostensibly stands for the annual Techtel-Mechtel by Gustav Heink with his students, there is no real concert in the piece. One could understand “Das Konzert” a little more profoundly as the ideal world of illusion of a group of bored spouses.
"All in all, the funny game has a very sad message: all affairs are at best attempts to prove something to yourself, boredom is what we long for deep down, but it doesn't make us happy either."
filming
In 1956 the play was filmed by the director Thomas Engel under the title Nothing but Trouble with Love .
literature
- Hermann Bahr: The concert. Comedy in three acts. E. Reiss, Berlin 1909, ( books.google.de )
- About Hermann Bahr and his comedy “Das Konzert”. In: Würzburger Bühnenblätter. Half-monthly publication for theater culture and Poetry in Würzburg. 1, Issue 7, Frankenwarte-Verlag, Würzburg 1919, pp. 6-9. ( digital-sammlungen.de )
- MB In: Prager Tagblatt. No. 274. November 21, 1926, 9. ( anno.onb.ac.at ).
Web links
- Bibliographical information, reviews and performances as well as digitized content on the website of the Hermann Bahr project at the University of Vienna
- Excerpt from a production at the Burgtheater near Hoanzl on youtube.com
- “The concert”, conventional and amusing on diepresse.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The concert in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ^ Rudolf Holzer: The concert. (No longer available online.) Burgtheater, 1963, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Hermann Bahr, Karl Ecker: Meister and Meisterbriefe around Hermann Bahr. From his drafts, diaries and his correspondence. Selected and introduced by Joseph Gregor. Hermann Bauer, Vienna 1947, p. 75. OCLC 2833500
- ↑ The concert. (No longer available online.) In: burgtheater.at. Burgtheater, October 2015, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ The concert - The Burgtheater treats itself and its audience to a favorite Hermann Bahr delicacy. from Nachtkritik.de, accessed on February 23, 2016.
