The Rape of the Sabine Women (Comedy)
The Robbery of the Sabine Women is a comedy (Schwank) by Franz and Paul von Schönthan from 1883 (first performed in Stettin in 1884) with reference to the legend of the same name from ancient Roman mythology.
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It's about a play with this title that grammar school professor Gollwitz wrote as a student - a youthful sin, as he calls it. The smear theater director Emanuel Striese , who has to struggle with numerous problems in the ensemble and is also not well off economically, learns about it and wants to premiere it. He can persuade Gollwitz, who only agrees on the condition that he is not named in order to save himself a possible embarrassment and that his wife does not find out about it either. But of course the wife comes back early from a spa stay, and everything goes completely different than planned. The performance threatens to become a disaster, and the whole family is soon completely divided, but thanks to a saving idea from Ms. Striese everything is turning for the better - even if not as Gollwitz would have thought.
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- Emanuel Striese, theater director
- Dr. Martin Gollwitz, high school professor
- Friederike, his wife
- Paula, daughter of both
- Dr. Leopold Neumeister, doctor
- Marianne Neumeister, b. Gollwitz, wife of the doctor
- Rosa, housekeeper at Gollwitz
- Auguste, Neumeister's maid
- Meissner, debtor
- Karl Groß, wine merchant
- Emil Groß, called Sterneck , his son
The role of theater director Emanuel Striese is considered a parade role for every comedic actor.
Modern theatrical version
A theatrical version that is often played today was revised by Curt Goetz and given a new ending. Goetz's love of theater and his puns shaped his modernization. The film version from 1954 bears Goetz's signature unmistakably. The performance rights are held by the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house in Berlin . The Berlin theater critic Alfred Kerr wrote at the premiere: The people are (laughing) under the chair. Me too.
Modern musical version
On April 24, 1970, a musical version in 8 pictures under the title Boards that mean the world was premiered at the Metropol-Theater (Berlin-Mitte) with Rudi Schiemann as theater director Emanuel Striese. The music was composed by Gerhard Kneifel . The librettists Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt , who also wrote the lyrics for the musical numbers, relocated the story to Germany around 1900. Here, too, the story ends with a happy ending after mishaps and misunderstandings: the traveling theater is given a permanent home. The performance rights are held by Schott Music Verlag in Berlin .
The record label Amiga published a record version with the number 8 45 095 in 1974, including Manfred Uhlig as Striese, Fred Frohberg as Gollwitz and Gerti Möller as Paula.
Film adaptations
The play was filmed several times, including a year
- 1928 by Robert Land (as The Rape of the Sabine Women )
- 1936 by Robert A. Stemmle (as the robbery of the Sabine women )
- 1945 in Italy by Mario Bonnard (as Il ratto delle Sabine ), with Totò in the leading role
- 1954 by Kurt Hoffmann (as The Rape of the Sabine Women (1954) )
There are also several TV versions. Above all, a film adaptation from 1959 directed by Hermann Pfeiffer with Helmut Peine and Willy Maertens , a recording of the play with Rudolf Platte from 1973 and a ZDF film adaptation with Martin Held and Gert Fröbe from 1983 should be mentioned.
In addition, the play was broadcast more often as a theater recording. For example in 1991 from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne , with Willy Millowitsch , Olaf Kreutzenbeck , Barbie Millowitsch-Steinhaus and Peter Millowitsch , among others .
Radio plays
- 1925: The Robbery of the Sabine Women - director and speaker: Hermann Beyer , with Karl Pündter , Lotte Schloß and Hans Freundt
- 1926: The Robbery of the Sabine Women - Director: Hans Flesch , Speaker: Not specified
- 1946: The Rape of the Sabine Women - Director: Hans Goguel , with Arno Ebert and Ernst Sladeck
- 1947: The Rape of the Sabine Women - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth , with Alfons Godard and Wilhelm Pilgram
- 1951: The Rape of the Sabine Women - Director: Theodor Steiner , with Rudolf Rieth and Joseph Plaut
- 1953: Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (theater recording) - Director: Willi Sämann (radio play adaptation: Hanns Korngiebel ), with Joseph Plaut, Paul Günther and Friedrich Luft as moderators
- 1959: The Rape of the Sabine Women - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm , with Gustav Knuth and Carl-Heinz Schroth
- 1980: The Robbery of the Sabine Women - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann , with Stefan Wigger and Rolf Henniger
literature
- Franz and Paul von Schönthan : The robbery of the Sabine women , in Helmut Schmiedt (Hrsg.): Bühnenschwänke . With an essay by Volker Klotz . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000. ISBN 3-8260-1833-8
- Helmut Schmiedt: Franz and Paul von Schönthan: “The Robbery of the Sabine Women” - attempted escape . In: Dr. Mabuse, Winnetou & Co. Thirteen classics of German entertainment literature . Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, 273 pp., ISBN 978-3-89528-621-6 or ISBN 3-89528-621-4 , pp. 94-112