The Oil Prince (Bad Segeberg 1961)
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| Title: | The oilprince |
| Genus: | Outdoor play |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Wulf Leisner |
| Literary source: | Karl May : The Oil Prince |
| Publishing year: | 1961 |
| Premiere: | July 15, 1961 |
| Place of premiere: | Kalkberg Stadium , Bad Segeberg |
| Director of the premiere | Wulf Leisner |
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The open-air play The Oil Prince, based on the youth story of the same name by Karl May , was written in 1961 by Wulf Leisner as a play for open-air stages and premiered on July 15, 1961 under his direction in the Kalkberg Stadium in Bad Segeberg as part of the Karl May Festival .
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First episode: In the valley of the "White Stones"
The Navajos dig up the hatchet against the Nijoras, although the white squaw advises peace. Shi-So, the son of the Navajo chief and the white squaw, and the young warrior Khasti-tine follow in the footsteps of the Nijora chief to investigate his plans.
Second episode: In Elk Canyon
A deep canyon near San Xavier del Bac through which the trek to Fort Tucson runs. The log cabin of the Irish landlord Paddy is below the rock. Buttler and his "Finders" want to raid the emigrant trek. Buttlers accomplice bollards, the scout of the emigrants , and his stepbrother Grinley, the "Oil Prince" will appear. In Paddy's bar they meet Sam Hawkens, Will Parker and Dick Stone. Buttler does not recognize the “clover leaf” and promptly embarrasses himself in a shooting competition with Sam, in a riding bet and in a drinking competition. The emigrant trek comes and stops in the valley floor. Leader Schmidt wants to continue, but Rosalie Ebersbach insists on the rest. She is for a camp mood with singing and is looking for the cantor who is currently composing a Wild West opera. The emigrants form a choir and sing a song. The opera should be called “ Under Strange Stars ”. The shamrock and would like to camp with the Saxon compatriots. This leads to a dispute with Poller. Rosalie, who pays everything, dismisses the scout. Mutual introduction of the shamrock and the Grinley group. Grinley reportedly made large oil discoveries in the west: on the Chelley arm of the San Juan River . Sam Hawkens doubts that. Nevertheless, the banker Duncan, his accountant Baumgarten and Grinley set out for the business they had hoped for. Sam Hawkens warns the emigrants about the planned raid. He has a plan: He wants to take the bandits between two fires. The Finders fall into the trap. Hobble Frank and Aunt Droll appear to reinforce the trek. The finders and bollards are tied by their feet. Warm welcome to the newcomers in Saxon. Sam takes the amount of money from Buttler for his betting debt. The cantor emeritus wants to hold a choir rehearsal with the Finders and takes Buttler off the chains. The Finders rush off. You will return with the Nijoras who unearthed the hatchet. The trek of the emigrants breaks out. The horse of the clumsy cantor is tied to the last wagon as announced.
Third episode: Basin near the Ölsee
Enter Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. You know: the hatchet has been dug up between the Navajos and the Nijoras. Frank and Droll appear. They report on the emigrant trek accompanied by the shamrock. Winnetou wants to campaign for peace with the chief of the Navajos. Grinley, Duncan, and Baumgarten enter the basin. Grinley is waiting for his stepbrother Buttler. Grinley reveals his plan to have Duncan and Baumgarten disappear after the money order is completed. Two Navajos warn the pale faces of the deadly danger in the face of the excavated hatchet. Grinley shoots one, the other escapes. Grinley presents a plan for a secret cave, allegedly full of gold treasures from the Reds. Duncan and Baumgarten disappear into the oil-smelling cave. Grinley and Buttler close the entrance with a boulder and take the belongings of the disappeared. Poller appears and blackmails Grinley, who plunges him on the edge of a rock. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand gallop into the gorge. Buttler poses as Duncan when Frank and Droll appear and expose the liar. With the guns ready to fire, Buttler and Grinley get off their horses and sit down. Shatterhand confronts them with the four rider tracks they have discovered. But there are only two sitting in front of them ... A fight ensues. Grinley and Buttler are tied to a tree. Winnetou discovers the entrance to the cave. You can roll back the boulder. Duncan and Baumgarten stagger out. You introduce yourself to each other. The chained bandits are to be delivered to Fort Tucson. The dead fish in the lake expose the oil deposits as a deception. The money orders are taken from Grinley again. The war-painted Nijoras appear. Grinley ingratiates himself with the murder of the Navajo warrior. Buttler and Grinley are chased away by them in scorn. The chief announces that the pale faces and Winnetou will die on the torture stake before sunrise. Shatterhand challenges the chief and knocks him down. Mokaschi calls his warriors to fight. When they are about to strike, the clover and the men of the trek emerge from behind a rock with their rifles at the ready ... The pale faces offer the brave warriors of the Nijoras an honorable peace. The peace pipe is smoked. Shatterhand and Winnetou accompany the trek to the great winter water.
Fourth episode: The valley floor by the winter water
Large gathering of the Navajos in front of the chief's tent. The ceremonial war dance is danced. The medicine man uses eagle feathers to interpret the fate of the two Navajo warriors sent. Grinley and Butler gallop into the gorge. You accuse Shatterhand of the murder. In exchange for provisions, fresh horses and free riding, they tell of the approach of the Nijoras who want to turn the valley of winter water into a death trap. The injured Shi-Sun rides through the alley of the warriors and points to the real murderers. But the chief keeps his word and chases them away. Ski afterwards. A small cavalcade bursts into the gorge: Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and all the others. They report the serious threat posed by the Nijoras. But Winnetou knows a secret path from the valley into the rear of the enemy. The general departure comes to a halt when Aurelius Hampel appears. Schmidt and Frank tie him to a tree and ask Duncan to take care of him. When the two are alone, Grinley appears. Hampel has to tie up Duncan despite his shouting: “To unbind! Unbind! ”Which, of course, the Saxon Hampel misunderstood… When Hampel and Grinley argue about the money order, the paper is torn. Then comes the bright war cry of an Indian: Schi-So is Grinley. Battle on the precipice, Grinley falls into the depths. Nijoras appear and surround Duncan and the cantor. With the knife on his chest, Duncan Mokaschi reveals the secret: Winnetou leads the Navajos on a secret path. Winnetou appears on the heights. As the chief of all Apaches, he calls out to the Nijoras and Navajos: "It is not Manitus will that brother pulls against brother ..." Old Shatterhand also raises his voice and urges peace. The two chiefs shake hands. You smoke the peace pipe. The emigrants appear at the entrance to the gorge. The shamrock rides ahead. Shatterhand announces that the Navajo chief is ready to give as much land as they need to each of the emigrants on the great river. The emigrants enthusiastically agree and hurry on horseback and cart. You have reached your goal. Only the cantor is at least a hundred bars missing for a nice final apotheosis!
Press coverage
“The fratricidal war of the Apaches is raging on Kalkberg now - they are old acquaintances who make life angry for each other in the basin of the white stones or in the Elk Canon with a rifle and tomahawk. And it seems to us that this unbroken 'Segeberger style' has done a lot to make the Summer Games more and more friends every year. (...) Especially the game 'Der Ölprinz', which was performed for the first time this year, shows the successful efforts to free the literary model of antiquated waste and to bring it closer to the audience, in the style of our time. (...) Certainly, reservations also remained with regard to the 'Prince of Oil'. The most serious is likely to be that the organizer and director, in their endeavor to address audiences who are not interested in Indians, go almost too far with the concessions on the "joke". In the case of the Prince of Oil, for example, there is a wide-ranging scene of a 'Saxon family meeting', at which one cannot get rid of the feeling that half of the nasal 'Coffee Saxons' would have better stayed on the Elbe. The images of the red trunks are all the stronger. (...) Then there is the new discovery: Harry Walther as Old Shatterhand. For "old friends" he has to play against some memories (Hans Joachim Kilburger). He is actually exactly what you imagine a 'picture book Shatterhand' to be: very blond, very German (maybe a little too posh). A quality that forces the red brother Winnetou (Heinz Ingo Hilgers) to mime even more nobly. Both show an eloquent and intelligent tongue in the game. "
Television broadcast
The performance was broadcast on August 4, 1961 on ARD . The table of contents read:
- Emigrants are attacked in Bad Segeberg! Indians sneak on the warpath! Nobody needs to take this terrible news seriously. It is true that people really ride and shoot in the Holstein city; but everything is just a game, an exciting spectacle. Every year the open-air stage on the Segeberger Kalkberg is transformed into one of the scenes where the heroes in Karl May's widely read novels cavort. This time we are transported to the dark and bloody grounds of the Wild West. Here the “oil prince” is up to mischief. Not long; because the Apatschen chief Winnetou, the pale-faced Old Shatterhand and some brave western men thwart the plans of the "prince".
Others
The 40-page program booklet contained a. a review by Rudolph Jacoby Ten Years of Karl May Games and an essay by Otto Forst-Battaglia Karl May today .
Further performances
source
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the premiere.
Text book
- Wulf Leisner : "The Oil Prince". An open-air play based on the travel novel by Karl Mays , Bamberg: Karl-May-Verlag o. J. (1961)
literature
- Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl May Games Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl May Verlag 1999, p. 64 ff.
- Peter Zastrow, Hans-Werner Baurycza: A city plays Indians. From the early years of the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg . In: Segeberger Blätter Volume 2, 2011.
Web links
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the people involved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerd_Teller
- ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerhard_Hönisch
- ↑ Reinhard Marheinecke u. a .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 67.
- ↑ http://www.tvprogramme.net/60/1961/19610804.htm
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Ölprinz_(Ratingen_1963)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Ölprinz_(Elspe_1965)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Ölprinz_(Bad_Segeberg_1970)