The fairy ball
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| Title: | The fairy ball |
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The fairy ball or carpenter, tailor and locksmith |
| Genus: | Mardi Gras posse in 3 acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Johann Nestroy |
| Publishing year: | 1833 |
| Place and time of the action: | The action takes place partly in Germany, partly in Italy, partly in the fairy kingdom |
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The fairy ball or carpenter, tailor and locksmith is a carnival posse in 3 acts by Johann Nestroy . The play was written in 1833, but was not performed during Nestroy's lifetime. The poet used the theme and most of the text for the Lumpacivagabundus . The same applies to a lesser extent to the work Genius, Schuster und Marqueur, which was written and also not played a year earlier .
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At the carnival fairy ball, Poverinus asks for the hand of Brillantina, which Fortuna indignantly refuses. In doing so, she insults Lumpacivagabundus, the father of Poverinus, and the judge Nemesis demands from her that she may bind her consent to a condition, but not completely refuse. Fortuna and Lumpaci bet that the lucky fairy won't succeed in converting two out of three rags through wealth. She does not doubt her victory:
- "Too big is the happiness power, what mortal can resist." (I. Act, 3 te Scene)
The three journeymen Kmäh, Leim and Bum buy together with their last money a ticket whose number they have dreamed of. They actually win 100,000 thalers, which they share honestly and then split up: Leim wants to go to Nuremberg and try to get his beloved Peppi if she is still unmarried; Kmäh wants to go to Italy to live there in joy; Bum is planning a trip through all the wine cellars on the Rhine. But they agree to meet here again in a year.
- "And today throughout the year on Shrove Tuesday, the Gedächtnißtag our happiness, we will return all three together here." (I. Act, 14 th Scene)
In Nuremberg, Leim learns that Peppi has been loyally waiting for him and they get married - Lumpaci has to admit that he has lost one of the three rags to Fortuna. In Italy it fell into the hands of the fraudsters Laura, Maccaroni and Parmesano, who steal all his money from him under the promise of a false Marchese title and flee - here Fortuna is the loser. Bum is in jail, he has drunk and squandered his winnings and had to pay the rest for fines - here too Fortuna has to admit her defeat.
But she has a second chance and, with the help of the fairy friendship, imposes happiness on the two again: Leim has convinced himself of the loyalty of his friends through a fictitious report about his alleged misfortune and her decision to help him. He promises them that he will take them in and see that they will always be fine.
But the ordinary life in Leims household gets so boring at first that he says goodbye and goes hiking again. Bum also prefers to go on a drinking spree and he also fled. The two meet in a tavern and decide to resume their old lotter life. Fortuna now has to admit her defeat and agrees to the wedding between Poverinus and Brillantina. The three friends and glue's wife Peppi are invited by Poverinus to the celebration.
- "But was' I wish now the drey funny brothers by our destiny changed for the low output, up here at our house to see the fairy kingdom." (III. Act, 15 th Scene)
Factory history
In order to lure the audience into the theater during the ball season, director Carl Carl organized a so-called “Carneval Theater” in his Theater an der Wien , for which he needed suitable carnival pieces. Even a curtain with a picture of St. Mark's Square in Venice was specially made. Due to time pressure, he started with the thirty-year-old farce, Der Tanzmeister Pauxel, or Carnival pranks by Ferdinand Kringsteiner (1775–1810), in which he himself played one of his star roles. The third piece he performed was Johann Baptist Frey's The Magician February (with Nestroy's couplet texts ), originally intended as an opening, but now given for the Emperor's birthday. The fairy ball , which was explicitly announced as a carnival farce and whose first and last act take place in carnival and whose second act is located in Venice, the stronghold of the Italian carnival, should be concluded by the Carneval Theater. But since the magician came on stage late in February , there was no longer enough time for the fairy ball and Nestroy presented it - partly reworked - under the new title The evil spirit Lumpacivagabundus .
As a source for the fairy ball , Nestroy used the story Das große Loos by Carl Weisflog (1770–1828), as well as the piece Schneider, Schlosser und Tischler by Josef Alois Gleich (1772–1841) and parts of his own, not listed Piece of Genius, Schuster and Marqueur (1832).
Otto Rommel puts this piece in the category of those magic pieces "in which spirits guide and help intervene in people's lives, so that the ghost scenes only form a framework for the scenes from real life" (quote). This also includes The Magic Journey into the Age of Knights , The Evil Spirit Lumpacivagabundus , Müller, Coal Burners and Armchair Carriers , The Equality of Years and The Zwirn, Knieriem and Leim families .
An autograph manuscript Nestroys, the fair copy of the original manuscript as censorship template is obtained in an insert list of a censorship feel of Blum (III Act, 6. Te scene; "The mod is bey d'females [...]" ). This piece of paper was cut up and acquired by the Vienna Library in the City Hall independently of the manuscript, which is why the connection with the second piece of paper was not immediately recognized and this is cataloged separately.
literature
- Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel : Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Historical-critical complete edition, first volume, Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1924.
- Friedrich Walla : Johann Nestroy; Pieces 5. In: Jürgen Hein / Johann Hüttner / Walter Obermaier / W. Edgar Yates : Johann Nestroy, Complete Works, Historical-Critical Edition. Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-224-16924-9 ; Pp. 1-64, 216-296.
Web links
- Table of contents and list of people at nestroy.at/nestroy-stuecke/17 (accessed on May 28, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ The piece was originally intended for the Carneval Theater
- ↑ Nestroy nevertheless used the term Act in the text
- ↑ Fortuna , the Roman goddess of luck
- ↑ brillare , Italian for shine
- ↑ Lumpacivagabundus : composed of Lumpazi (rascal, rascal) and vagabond (tramp)
- ↑ Poverinus = from French pauvre , poor
- ↑ Nemesis , the Greek goddess of vengeance
- ^ Paracelsus , famous doctor of the Renaissance
- ↑ marmotte , franz. for marmot
- ↑ Kmäh, mäh = onomatopoeic reproduction of goat complaining (tailor mockery)
- ↑ Pansch = from panschen / pantschen , to mix with inferior quality
- ↑ relegated = student excluded from the university for disciplinary reasons, see relegation ; the figure appears only in the table of contents, but not in the text, see Brukner / Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Samples of Works. P. 706.
- ↑ Nestroy consistently wrote Marck women instead of market women
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 5. S. 11.
- ^ 1 thaler was 2 guilders, a ducat was 4½ guilders, a guilder was 120 kreuzers, a twenty kreuzer was 20 kreuzers, and a groschen was 3 kreuzers
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 5. p. 30.
- ↑ Marchese is an Italian title of nobility, corresponds to the margrave
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 5. p. 63.
- ↑ Franz II / I. , born on the 12th, and his fourth wife Karoline Auguste von Bayern , born on February 8th
- ^ Text in Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 5. pp. 222-255.
- ^ Otto Rommel: Nestroy's works, selection in two parts, Golden Classics Library, German publishing house Bong & Co., Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Stuttgart 1908, p. XXVI.
- ^ Brukner / Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. P. 706.
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall, call number IN 94.372
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall, signature IN 94.372 (first stanza), IN 94.284 (second stanza)