The black pike

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Work data
Title: The black pike
Shape: Musical comedy
Original language: Swiss German
Music: Paul Burkhard
Libretto : Juerg Amstein
Literary source: Comedy “ De sächzigscht Giburtstag ” by Emil Sautter
Premiere: April 1, 1939
Place of premiere: Schauspielhaus Zurich
Place and time of the action: The living room of a Swiss manufacturer at the beginning of the 20th century
people
  • Albert Oberholzer, manufacturer
  • Karline, his wife
  • Anna, their daughter
  • Kattri, cook for the Oberholzers
  • Ruedi, a fisherman
  • Fritz Oberholzer, farmer
  • Berta, his wife
  • Gustav Oberholzer, member of the government
  • Paula, his wife
  • Jakob Eberle
  • Lina, his wife
  • Alexander Oberholzer, called Obolski
  • Iduna, his wife
  • Circus performers

The black pike is a musical comedy in three acts after the comedy De sächzigscht Giburtstag of Emil Sautter . The music was written by the Swiss composer Paul Burkhard , the libretto was written by Jürg Amstein. The play was premiered on April 1, 1939 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . Today it is one of the most popular musical dialects in Switzerland.

action

On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, the Swiss manufacturer Oberholzer invites his siblings and their spouses to a celebration. A pike is intended as a feast, but it burns in the oven during the course of the action.

Oberholzer's wife, daughter Anna and cook Kattri prepare the party. Young Anna is very excited because she composed a duet for her father . However, your rehearsals are constantly interrupted by the arrival of guests.

The “black sheep” of the family, Oberholzer's brother Alexander, who calls himself circus director Obolski , and his wife, the beautiful circus artist Iduna, also appear unexpectedly.

The relatives are very reserved towards Alexander when he talks about circus life - only Anna is enthusiastic. The gentlemen, on the other hand, cannot take their eyes off Iduna, who raves about her father as "a wonderful clown" with an Eastern European accent .

Anna begins to dream of the circus : Colorful circus scenes appear on the stage. When she announced that she wanted to go to the circus, the parents were horrified.

orchestra

Piano, accordion, clarinet, cello, several voices

music

The following numbers are played:

  1. foreplay
  2. Mummy, now stop wearing a blue gun!
  3. Song of the cook
  4. Birthday duet and De Groochsi (cough song)
  5. How soon will we get old
  6. It wasn't easy, but it has been achieved!
  7. The world is big and wide
  8. I wott guard nöd sensible sy!
  9. I have a cute little pony!
  10. O my papa
  11. They say ah!
  12. O hett i wings!
  13. Serenade of the clowns
  14. You black pike with parsley
  15. Pony dressage
  16. Hocus pocus Fidibus
  17. I get hot and cold!
  18. Oh please, let me dream!
  19. The good bye
  20. This is how the little family report ends

Emergence

After Paul Burkhard had seen Emil Sautter's dialect comedy De sächzigscht Giburtstag as a teenager in 1927 at the Zurich City Theater, he was inspired to compose the song O mein Papa .

In 1938 he wrote the black pike around this song with the librettist Jürg Amstein , in this first version still as a one-act play .

In 1939, with the consent of Emil Sautter, he added the burlesque aftermath of Anna's dream . In this version, the songs were accompanied by an orchestra for the first time. The world premiere took place in the Schauspielhaus Zurich on April 1st.

In 1948 the play was performed in a new version in three acts at the Schauspielhaus Zurich.

In 1950 the comedy, which was translated into High German, premiered on March 16 under the title Das Feuerwerk in the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz .

meaning

The piece has been shown over sixty times in Zurich since 1939 - in a new arrangement since 1948 - and is one of the most popular musical dialect comedies in German-speaking Switzerland .

With the music for this piece Paul Burkhard became known worldwide; the song O mein Papa became an evergreen , which was interpreted by many artists and transmitted in 42 languages.

filming

The film adaptation of the High German version under the title Fireworks from 1954 was a worldwide success.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Description of the nostalgia theater Balgach, CH
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Kläui for the Swiss broadcaster SRF
  3. ↑ a b Schedule of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2014/15 ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Table of contents at swissbib Basel Bern , accessed on November 16, 2016.
    Der Schwarze Hecht , list of titles with Ruedi Walter from exlibris, Switzerland , accessed on November 16, 2016.
    Thomas Siedhoff: German (language) es Musical ( memo from November 20 2016 in the Internet Archive ), page 62, October 2016 (PDF) in the German Musical Archive of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
  5. Jump up ↑ Dance of the Lemurs. Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 26, 2014, accessed on November 13, 2016
  6. ^ Jo Rice: The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits , 1st. Edition, Guinness Superlatives Ltd, Enfield, Middlesex 1982, ISBN 0-85112-250-7 , p. 12.
  7. ^ "O my Papa" on secondhandsongs.com , accessed November 16, 2016.
    Joseph Murrells: Million Selling Records: From the 1930's to the 1980's. An Illustrated Directory. Arco Pub., Batsford 1985, p. 78.
  8. ↑ IMDb