The entertaining wedding contract
The entertaining wedding contract is a play by Maurus Lindemayr from 1770 .
Royal comedy
In 1770, the Habsburg Marie Antoinette , a daughter of Maria Theresa and Emperor Franz I Stephan , was married to the heir to the throne of France, later Louis XVI , for political reasons . married. On her journey from Vienna, up the Danube, through southern Germany, via Strasbourg to Paris , she and her court also passed through Lambach in Upper Austria and stayed at the Benedictine monastery there .
The Benedictine priest and writer Father Maurus Lindemayr wrote a cheerful play on the occasion, in the Upper Austrian dialect of the Hausruckviertel at the time, to entertain the distinguished guest. The play was performed in the baroque theater. The piece is a cheerful comedy, the characters come from the rural peasant milieu and should cheer the audience, especially Marie Antoinette, through the contrast to the upcoming royal wedding.
Contemporary description
Entertaining wedding contract according to the natural whether the Ennserisch-Bäurischen mouth and way of thinking in a bound speech to entertain your royal. Your Highness, the Most Serene Woman, Mrs. Maria Antonia, Archduchess of Austria, Dauphine of France, when most of them stayed in the monastery on April 23, 1770. (Gregori Menhard 16 ° 51 S., Steyr)
18th century dialect
The piece is written in the Upper Austrian Bavarian language of the 18th century, more precisely in the Hausruckviertel peasant dialect of the time. This makes the play an interesting source for linguistic research. Old and partly extinct dialect words are used, but it is largely understandable for modern dialect speakers. In the baroque theater of the Lambach monastery, the location of the premiere, performances of the short wedding contract take place again and again .
literature
- The high German comedies . Vol. 1: Text; Vol. 2: Commentary. Ed. U. with an afterword v. Christian Neuhuber (= Praesens TextBibliothek (PTB), vol. 5; see: Writings on literature and language in Upper Austria, vol. 9). Vienna: Praesens 2006. ISBN 978-3-7069-0349-3
- Birgit Boge: Oratio funebris: the Catholic funeral sermon of the early modern period: twelve studies: with a catalog of German-language Catholic funeral sermons in individual prints 1576–1799 from the holdings of the Klosterneuburg Abbey Library and the Eichstätt University Library . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1999, pp. 250f.