The stage hare

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Title: The stage hare
Genus: comedy
Original language: German
Author: Karl Bunje
Publishing year: 1935
Premiere: 1935
Place of premiere: Brake (Lower Weser)
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The Etappenhase ( Low German original title: De Etappenhas. Een funny Spill ut de Kriegstied in veer Uptög ) is a play in the genre of the comedy by the Oldenburg writer Karl Bunje from 1935. The action takes place in Flanders during the First World War ; In the work, Bunje processed his war experiences in a humorous way. The piece became known primarily through film and television adaptations , among others. a. with Günther Lüders , Willy Millowitsch , Beppo Brem and Edgar Bessen . The television broadcast on October 27, 1953 from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne was the first live broadcast of a stage work on German television and made the theater known nationwide.

Stage design

According to Bunje's direction, the set should consist of a simple, unadorned living room with several exits. The clothing of the soldiers at the front should be

... be in proper style, dirty and torn down. The lieutenant was a bit prominent in his clothes, but otherwise a real trench officer . The stage soldier Ferdinand, on the other hand, is sleek and ironed; high stand-up collar, extra trousers with bars, far more elegant than the lieutenant. He speaks an affected Platt. - Marie is fresh, simply and neatly dressed. ( De Etappenhas , p. 5)

action

Flanders, October 1917. The three friendly soldiers from the front, Gerd, Hein and Ummo, are relocated to the stage near the German-Dutch border together with their lieutenant Dierk Hansen . They move into a house that the girl Marie lives alone. The Landwehrmann Ummo, farmer by profession, is already 46 years old and should already be at home again, but no replacement has yet arrived for him, as is scarce due to high war losses of replacement.

In the stage they meet Ferdinand Hasenbein, a stereotypical stage stallion who has known how to avoid any front-line deployment and who serves as a clerk for the colonel in the local command . Gerd and Hein have no understanding for this, especially since Ummo's oldest son has already been drafted.

Hein, who is known for being able to "organize" anywhere and at any time, happened to discover a hare shot by the colonel while visiting the local headquarters. Since everyone is horrifying and Ummo's last meat reserve from home has been eaten by the rats in the trenches , Gerd, Hein and Ummo are looking forward to a roast hare. Gerd does not agree with the theft , however, as this could put the lieutenant in a very embarrassing position vis-à-vis the colonel. Hein has to give the hare back to Ferdinand, who is already completely desperate because of the hare that has disappeared. Gerd, who is in love with Marie, has already invited the girl to roast rabbit; a cancellation would be very uncomfortable for him.

Marie has a tomcat named Peter who likes to nibble on the milk and who has often bothered Ferdinand, who is also in love with Marie. Suddenly Peter disappeared. Hein immediately suspects Ferdinand of having Peter on his conscience. Ummo believes that too, who secretly observed Ferdinand as the clerk sank a box weighed down with stones in a canal. Ferdinand is "interrogated" by his friends and immediately admits that he killed the cat and put it in the box.

Since Hein is good at cooking, he should prepare the hare for the colonel. The closer the feast comes for the local commandant, the worse the mood among the friends with the exception of Hein, who is very happy. When Hein handed the roast over to Ferdinand and he went to the Colonel, he announced, to everyone's surprise, that there was still roast hare today. Dierk is also invited and takes part in the feast.

After dinner, the secret of the two roast hare is revealed. Ummo got the box out of the sewer. Inside, however, is not the cat's corpse , but a brand new but completely burned uniform skirt of the colonel. Ferdinand admits that the uniform he got from the post office for the Colonel was burned in an accident. To cover up the mishap and to blame the post, he made the skirt disappear.

Hein now has to admit that he traded the cat on his conscience and for the colonel's rabbit. Ferdinand doesn't want to believe that, since he ate with the colonel and ate the hare's head. Hein makes it clear to him that the hare's head was the only real thing on the hare roast. Ferdinand, who now realizes how wrong his life as a stage stallion was, volunteered to join von Dierk's company because he got to know true camaraderie here. For Ummo, the war is over: he can return home.

Film and television adaptations

  • Der Etappenhase , feature film (D 1937, directed by Joe Stöckel , with Günther Lüders as Hein Lammers)
  • Der Etappenhase , stage performance of the Millowitsch Theater on October 27, 1953, broadcast live by the NWDR , with Willy Millowitsch as Anton Pannedeckel (= Hein Lammers) and Lucy Millowitsch as Marie.
  • Der Etappenhase (TV version from 1956, with Willy Millowitsch as Anton Pannedeckel and Lotti Krekel as Marie).
  • Der Etappenhase , feature film (FRG 1957, directed by Wolfgang Becker , with Beppo Brem).
  • Der Etappenhase (TV broadcast 1969, with Willy Millowitsch as Anton Pannedeckel and Lotti Krekel as Marie)
  • Der Etappenhase , television broadcast of the Ohnsorg Theater , broadcast by ARD on December 16, 1978 with Edgar Bessen as Hein Lammers and Herma Koehn as Marie.
  • Der Etappenhase , stage version of the Millowitsch-Theater from 1989, with Willy Millowitsch as Anton Pannedeckel, broadcast in 1991.

See also

literature

  • Karl Bunje: De Etappenhas. A funny Spill ut de Kriegstied in veer Uptög , Verden an der Aller (publisher and distributor of Low German stage plays Fr. Mahnke) 1935.

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