The devil
Der Weibsteufel is a drama written by Karl Schönherr in 1914 . The triangle story set in the Alps is one of Schönherr's most successful dramas, along with Faith and Home (1910), and one of the most frequently staged plays in the south of the German-speaking area. The theater premiered on April 6, 1915 in the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna. The scene of the action is a peasant room around 1900.
The play with one female and two male actors ( woman, man, border hunter ) is about the struggle of a sickly husband and smuggler for his wife , who makes the young, eager border guards beautiful. The men get into a heated argument, which is heated up by the woman; in the end one is dead, the other in jail, and the woman inherits the house.
The piece is written in Bavarian dialect and is therefore seldom played outside of southern Germany. In 2018, the free theater glassbooth from Essen published a version in High German that relocated the plot to the time after the First World War and to the Ruhr area.
literature
- Karl Schönherr: The woman devil. Drama in five acts. Bloch, Berlin 1915.
- Ernst A. Greiner: About the "woman devil". In: Bühne und Welt , Vol. 17 (1915), pp. 595-598.
- Karl Schönherr: The woman devil. Stage and music publisher Hans Pero, Vienna.
Film adaptations
- 1920: Die Würghand or Der Weibsteufel - director: Cornelius Hintner , actors: Viktor Kutschera , Carmen Cartellieri , Eugen Preiß
- 1924: Film adaptation of Fred Niblo with Ramón Novarro , Barbara La Marr , William V. Mong (OT: Thy Name Is Woman ). The action has been moved to Spain.
- 1951: Film adaptation by Wolfgang Liebeneiner with Hilde Krahl , Kurt Heintel , Bruno Hübner
- 1966: Der Weibsteufel - Austria - Director: Georg Tressler , Actors: Hugo Gottschlich , Sieghardt Rupp , Maria Emo . In contrast to the stage work, the number of participants was increased by a few people and the plot was moved to the (then) present.
- 1984: TV film by Josef Kuderna and Dietmar Schönherr with Sebastian Baur, Hannes Thanheiser
- 2000: TV film Der Weibsteufel - Germany - Director: Jo Baier , actors: Günther Maria Halmer , Fritz Karl , Julia Thurnau , Josef Wierer
- 2009: TV film by Peter Schönhofer with Werner Wölbern , Birgit Minichmayr , Nicholas Ofczarek
- 2012: Grenzgänger - Austria - Director: Florian Flicker , Actors: Andreas Lust , Stefan Pohl , Andrea Wenzl . In the Austrian border region shortly after the turn of the millennium. The remake won the CICAE Art Cinema Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival .
Radio plays
- 1927: The devil; Producer: NORAG ; Director: Hans Bodenstedt ; First broadcast: May 16, 1927.
- Speaker:
- Karl Pündter : The man
- Hedwig Wangel : His wife
- Ernst Pündter : A young frontier hunter
- 1960: The female devil; Producer: WDR ; Director: Gert Westphal ; First broadcast: February 10, 1960.
- Speaker:
- Manfred Inger : Man
- Ida Krottendorf : His wife
- Bert Fortell : Young cross-border commuter
- 2019: The female devil; Producer: ORF / SWR
- Hannes Perkmann : Man
- Gerti Drassl : His wife
- Harald Windisch : Border hunters
media
- 1966: Georg Tressler: The female devil
- 2009: Martin Kušej : The female devil . ORF, Vienna (1 DVD)
- 2012: Florian Flicker: Cross-border commuters . The Austrian film
- 2014: Ralf Knapp, Der Weibsteufel. bremer criminal theater
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marion Siems (ed.): Reclam's new actor. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1905, p. 364