The shooting game
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| Title: | The shooting game |
| Genus: | Play |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Franz Count of Pocci |
| Publishing year: | 1871 |
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Whose children:
Village children:
Day laborers:
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The shooting game is a piece written by Franz von Pocci and written in 1871 . The plot was based on a story by Isabella Braun . It is noticeably one of the few pieces of Poccis in which the Kasperl does not appear.
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1st elevator
The two children Anton and Marie go from school to home, as the long-Michel, a former schoolmate, Anton front of the other children with whom Michel had arranged for Schusserspiel challenges. After all, Anton lost the game and as the loser he has to give the winners as many shots as they bet. Meanwhile, Marie visits the old Walburg, a war widow who now has to live on alms because she doesn't even have enough money to travel back to her homeland, Tyrol. The old woman tells the girl about the French invasion, during which her husband was shot, and about the French oppression. After all the events in her life, Walburg is happy to have peace now and has already finished thinking about death, whereupon Marie wishes her that she should live a long time.
2nd elevator
Marie blames herself and Anton for getting five instead of the usual four cruisers from her mother last Thursday for the old Walburg and giving the surplus cruiser to Anton so that he could buy the guns he owed his teammates. Anton says that otherwise he would have been beaten up by Michel and that Walburg didn't know anything about the additional cruiser. When they meet the day laborer Lukas, with whom Walburg lives, he tells them that he is very worried about the old woman and that she is dying of hunger before he returns to the house. Anton is now reproaching himself for keeping the one cruiser from which she could have bought food. Luke comes back and reports that the old woman has actually died. Anton bursts into tears. When his father, the bailiff, happened to come by, he told him the story, whereupon his father reprimanded him for what he had done, before telling him that the old woman died not of hunger but of old age and that she still had four Kreuzer and a message from her asking that the money be given to the poor because she doesn't need it. The father forgives his children because he thinks that Anton’s fear is punishment enough and that Marie only acted out of sibling love.