The cheerful farmer
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| Title: | The cheerful farmer |
| Original title: | The cheerful farmer |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Leo case |
| Libretto : | Victor Léon |
| Premiere: | July 27, 1907 |
| Place of premiere: | Mannheim |
| Place and time of the action: | Fictional village in Upper Austria at the end of the 19th century and in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century |
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Der fidele Bauer is an operetta in a prelude and two acts by Leo Fall . The libretto wrote Victor Léon . The first performance took place on July 27, 1907 in Mannheim . The work belongs to the so-called Silver Operetta Era .
orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, percussion and strings. There are also organ and accordion as stage music.
action
foreplay
Village square
Matthäus Scheichelreuther is a farmer who is not exactly wealthy, but is still mostly cheerful and has been a widower for many years. On his deathbed, his wife had expressed the wish to have Stefan, the only son, become a pastor one day. Now, after successfully passing the Abitur, the day to say goodbye has come. Stefan says goodbye to his father and sister Annamirl to start studying theology in distant Vienna.
first act
Village fairground
It's been eleven years since Stefan hasn't seen his home. The old man from Scheichelreuther has been excited since he found out that his son is visiting him today. Annamirl is also very proud of her academic brother. This goes so far that she feels better than herself and only gives her friend Vincenz, whom she has known since childhood, the cold shoulder. Parish fair is currently being celebrated in the village. Vincenz is supposed to start his military service tomorrow and would like to dance with Annamirl to say goodbye, but she gives him a basket.
Lisi, cow girl at Scheichelreuther's, who because of her hair color is only called the "red Lisi" by the whole village, is strolling through the fairground with her illegitimate son Heinerle. Whenever the boy expresses a wish, his mother assures him that she has no money.
Stefan comes to visit his family. As it turns out, he soon quit studying theology and went to medicine instead. He is presumptuous towards the rural population. His father also has to painfully discover that his son has completely changed. Yes, he is downright ashamed of his rural origins. He has turned into an arrogant snob. The old Scheichelreuther then has to find out that his son has become engaged to the daughter of a privy councilor from Berlin and is about to travel to there today because he will marry his bride in a few days. When Stefan also reveals that his father and sister are not invited to the party, the old Scheichelreuther not only feels deeply sad, but also angry. To wipe out his son, he decides to adopt the son of his cowgirl.
Second act
Elegant salon in a Viennese villa
Stefan has been married to Friederike von Grunow for a year. He not only runs a prosperous medical practice in Vienna, but has also made it to a university professorship. He has not even revealed his rural origins to his own wife.
Today the couple receives a visit from Berlin: Privy Councilor von Grunow with his wife Viktoria and son Horst, a proud hussar lieutenant, want to see how they are doing. To make matters worse, Matthäus Scheichelreuther, his daughter Annamirl, Stefan's godfather Lindoberer and his son Vincenz also decided to visit the young couple without warning on the very same day. As usual in the village, the old man from Scheichelreuther has his pointed cap on and his accordion with him. The noble Berlin relatives are horrified when they find out what kind of background Stefan comes from. She even went so far that she recommended Friederike to leave her husband. But then she gets into the wrong place with Friederike. She pays her relatives back by being particularly friendly to the villagers. It doesn't take long before her nice manner spreads to her husband and shortly afterwards even to the Berlin relatives. Farmer Scheichelreuther can finally be proud of his son again and in the end Annamirl and Vincenz also become a happy couple.
music
The best-known song in the operetta is undoubtedly Heinerle, Heinerle, don't have any money , which is still often asked for when you want a broadcast on the radio. It's the hit of the play. But other music numbers don't have to hide behind it either. The best known include:
- And I wear a pointed hood
- Hollodrioh, we are four recruits!
- I have to leave here tomorrow
- Everyone wears a pinkie and often stands in the corner
- Are you also a farmer
Emergence
The libretto by Victor Léon was originally called The dear children . A Jewish junk goods dealer saves food from his mouth just so he can let his son study. Later the son is ashamed of his poor origins and denies his father. Léon then completely rewrote the piece, relocated it to the peasant milieu and called it Der Fidele Bauer . Fall composed the operetta in a very short time, but Wilhelm Karczag , director of the Theater an der Wien , declined the performance. Shortly before, Falls operetta Der Rebell had failed the audience, and Karczag also saw the peasant milieu as an unsuitable background for an operetta.
When León was appointed artistic director of the operetta festival at the Grand Ducal Badischer Hoftheater in Mannheim in the summer of 1907, he used this opportunity to premiere Der fidele Bauer . Louis Treumann sang the leading role . The operetta was an immediate success. The song Heinerle, Heinerle, hab ka Geld had to be repeated three times. Curt Bois soon began his career as Heinerle at a performance in Berlin .
Sound carrier
- The happy farmer , recorded in Bad Ischl, under Vinzenz Praxmarer , with: Rupert Bergmann ; Robert Maszl ; Franz Suhrada ; Eugene Amesmann ; CPO, Georgsmarienhütte 2011.
Film adaptations
- 1927: Fery-Film GmbH Berlin; André Nox, Werner Krauss , Carmen Boni , Hans Brausewetter , Mathias Wieman , Ivy Close , Leo Peukert and Szöke Szakall played the leading roles under the direction of Franz Seitz senior . In this version the plot was moved from Austria to the Spreewald.
- 1951: Der fidele Bauer , Berna- and Donau-Filmproduktion Vienna; under the direction of Georg Marischka , Paul Hörbiger , Adrienne Gessner , Alma Seidler , Erich Auer , Franz Marischka , Fritz Heller, Fritz von Friedl, Hans Steilau, Heinrich Gretler , Helli Servi and Loni von Friedl played the leading roles. The lexicon of international films commented: partly with humor, partly with sentiment, conflicts between old and young, poor and rich, city and country. Not very happy, "modernized" film adaptation of the popular operetta by Leo Fall. Simple, leisurely musical entertainment.
- 1962: WDR / ORF film adaptation with Hermann Thimig , Albert Rueprecht and Michl Lang .
- 1973: ORF / ZDF (TV production). Directed by Axel von Ambesser , Josef Meinrad , Alois Aichhorn, Fritz Muliar , Kurt Huemer , Franz Muxeneder , Monique Lobasa, Dolores Schmidinger, Rainer Schildberg, Franz Strass, Marianne Schönauer and Ulli Fessl played the leading roles.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Zwetschi Marischka: Always smile , Munich, Vienna 2001, p. 81 ff.
- ↑ Entry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Entry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Entry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Entry in the Internet Movie Database (English)