The hole or the paradise found again

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Title: The hole or the paradise found again
Genus: Shadow play
Original language: German
Author: Achim von Arnim
Publishing year: 1813
Premiere: 1811
people
  • poet
  • Emperor of Rhubarb
  • Empress , his wife
  • Kasper , his advice
  • People and animals in the Rhababerland
  • A knight from the round table
  • Its sailors
  • The devil

The hole or paradise found again is a short piece by Achim von Arnim . The casual work consists of two lifts (first lift: twelve scenes; second lift: five scenes). After the play, which bears the generic name “Ein Schattenspiel ”, had already been performed in 1811 - the year it was written - it appeared in print for the first time in 1813.

Emergence

Arnim took the background of his drama - the story of the Empress in the Tower - from a story in the Seven Wise Masters Collection from the end of the 15th century, but edited and expanded it considerably.

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First elevator

Spurred on by his lover, the Empress, a knight hires out as a guard for the Emperor of the Rhubarb Land and has a hole broken in the wall of the tower in which the Empress is located. The two plan and execute their escape. The deceived emperor, for his part, deceives his people and flees into the forest with his chancellor, Kasper.

second elevator

The devil lured the emperor and all people into the "government machine" and is dragging them with him to hell. Drawn by angels, the ship with the knight and the empress reaches the Rhubaberland again, which is now ruled by animals that crown the two rulers in the rediscovered paradise.

literature

  • Gerhard Kluge : Materials to understand the text "Das Loch". In: Ludwig Achim von Arnim: The Hole or The Recovered Paradise: A Shadow Play / Joseph von Eichendorff: The Incognito or The Several Kings or Old and New. Edited by Gerhard Kluge. Berlin: de Gruyter 1968. pp. 69-105. ( doi : 10.1515 / 9783110827057-003 )

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