The petty bourgeois wedding
The petty bourgeois wedding , original title: The wedding , is a play (one-act play) by Bertolt Brecht from 1919 .
Brecht wrote “The Wedding” as a 21-year-old student. In it he shows himself to be a pupil of Karl Valentin ; the effects of the epic theater are only subtle in it. The premiere of the "Wedding" took place on December 11, 1926 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt in a production by Melchior Vischer . The extension of the title to "The Petite Bourgeois Wedding" was only made later by Brecht.
action
In the one-act play "Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit" written by Bertolt Brecht, the played idyll of the petty bourgeoisie is presented in a comedic way. The bride's father tries again and again persistently to tell different anecdotes from earlier times. The bride proudly tells the guests about her groom's home-made furniture, as she doesn't want her father to share embarrassing and inappropriate anecdotes. More and more guests are leaving the wedding as the whole celebration gets out of hand. The wedding dinner is ruined and the furniture destroyed. It starts with a broken table leg, goes over a destroyed sofa to a bed that ultimately collapses, in which the couple find themselves at the end of the celebrations. Brecht built a short dialogue into the play in which the protagonists exchange derogatory remarks about his own play "Baal" , apparently with the sly intention of arousing the audience's interest in his drama. The wedding, which should actually be the most beautiful day in the life of a bride, turns into a farce in which not only all the furniture, but also the good reputation of the bride and groom, especially that of the pregnant bride and the seemingly ideal world of the philistines, are destroyed.
Performances
The first performance of the play took place on December 11, 1926 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt , directed by Melchior Vischer . The play was first performed after the war on November 7, 1963 at the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg , directed by Martin Ackermann. In 2000, Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit premiered in Berlin in a production by Philip Tiedemann and was on the program of the Berliner Ensemble until November 2017 . From February 2018 this production will be played in the Berlin Schlosspark Theater .
filming
In 1969 Radio Bremen produced Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit for television . Directed by Rainer Wolffhardt .
Text output
- The wedding and other one-act plays . Comment by Wolfgang Jeske. Frankfurt a. M.:Suhrkamp 2002. (edition suhrkamp). ISBN 978-3-35181298-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suhrkamp Theatertexte accessed on January 30, 2019
- ↑ Berlin Week, accessed on January 31, 2019
- ↑ InterFilmes.com