That’s what you get from it

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This is what you get from it is the title of a play that Heinz Erhardt edited for the stage. The three-act act is based on the comedy "Whom God gives an office" by Wilhelm Lichtenberg . The piece formed the basis for the feature film What is the matter with Willi? .

The world premiere took place in July 1969. Erhardt toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the play and appeared on stage around 600 times in the role of Willi Winzig.

action

1st act

Willi Winzig works in a German tax office and is being taken more and more by the tax notices, reminders and invoices that go through his hands. After a woman threatens to kill herself, Winzig simply lets the tax office's demands disappear and ensures that the relevant post is no longer delivered to the citizens. A regular guest at the tax office and at Winzig's boss Doleschall is the veterinarian Dr. Sigrid Kubin, who repeatedly tries to get funding for her research. At Doleschall, however, it bites granite. The situation comes to a head when Doleschall makes the vet cry in the presence of Winzig one day. Tiny rebelled against his boss and stood up for Dr. Kubin a. A dispute ensues, in the course of which Doleschall finds out that Winzig is holding back money claims. He then wants to retire Winzig early and cut his pension. The lawyer Dr. Senn, who also has his eye on Kubin, but likes Tiny, gives him the advice to play the madman. If he is considered to be insane, Winzig receives the full pension.

2nd act

Willi Winzig then pulls out all the stops and shows up at the evening reception of the new Finance Minister Kuhländer. Guests at this reception are the actual farmer Kuhländer, who is completely overwhelmed with his role as finance minister, and the new agriculture minister Dr. Finz, who actually comes from the financial sector and has no idea about agriculture and Mr. Doleschall. Kuhländer, Finz and Doleschall are to negotiate with the foreign state guest Ali Aganemtsich. Tiny interferes and drives away Aganemtsich, an act that is first demonized, but then also praised.

As a result, Winzig slaps the face of Finance Minister Kuhländer, who then has to resign, but before that, Winzig was promoted to the district council out of gratitude .

3rd act

Dr. Finz becomes the new finance minister and councilor Winzig turns to new tasks in the finance ministry. He ensures the approval of Dr. Kubin's grants. Before she can pick up her money order, the ex-minister Kuhländer comes to Winzig and asks him for money for a children's home. Tiny shows compassion and gives the money intended for Kubin to Kuhländer. The vet is outraged and declares Winzig crazy. Tinzig also refuses a visit from a reporter, whereupon his secretary Weguscheit, Doleschall and Dr. Finz think about a serious mental illness of Winzig and want to send him into retirement. Tiny is packing up his personal effects when the news reaches the tax office that the reporter was a fraud. Finz has to resign because he did not invest in the children's home and since Winzig has done so, he becomes the new finance minister.

Television broadcast

On January 1, 1971, the television recording of the play was broadcast on ZDF for the first time. Ewald Burike and Peter Ahrweiler took over the direction . In the years that followed, this play was broadcast repeatedly on ZDF, but in a somewhat defused form. A spicy dialogue between Miss Weguscheit and Willi Winzig with a playing time of approx. 5 minutes has meanwhile fallen victim to censorship.

The roles were filled as follows:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heinzerhardt.de , accessed on February 28, 2012.
  2. ↑ Horst O. Hermanni: From Dorothy Dandridge to Willy Fritsch. The ABC of Films ; here online at books.google, accessed on February 28, 2012.