The curve
The curve is a farce by Tankred Dorst , which premiered on March 23, 1960 under the direction of Hansjörg Utzerath in the Kammerspiele of the Lübeck Theater.
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Rudolf and his brother Anton live in a “modest and comfortable hut” at the foot of a rock. In addition to the remote dwelling, they have created a private cemetery. Rudolf earns his living. He learned how to repair demolished cars himself. Anton, on the other hand, studied and writes funeral speeches . The brothers have a lot to do, especially when the weather is sunny. A serpentine leads up the mountain with the so-called "steeply rising, rugged rock" . Some drivers take the critical curve, very close to the rock, more or less illegally. Excessive speed on the narrow road or the blinding sun may be the causes.
Just as the brothers sunbathe in front of their hut and are indignant about the many unsuccessful "submissions to the Ministry of Road Construction" that Anton wrote by hand, another car crashes "down the rock". Rudolf gets to work. Anton pulls the apparently dead driver out of the wreckage by his feet and takes a look at the papers of the unfortunate man. The married ministerial director Dr. jur. Erich Kriegbaum didn't make the curve. But the supposedly dead person opens his eyes and finds the language again. Kriegbaum - it turns out - comes by because of Anton's many handwritten entries. These all concern the life-threatening curve above just below the ridge . The Ministerialdirigent admits that in and of himself he has taken handwritten documents from the population very lightly. But now, having become wise through damage, he designs a generous extension of the mountain road in front of the astonished brothers - with all the traffic safety chicanes.
Anton is not thrilled. Kriegbaum must take care of himself. To be on the safe side, Anton wrote down the name of the successor to the ministerial director: Dr. Kirstein. The funeral speech writer Anton rummages in the briefcase of the officer who has had the accident and unearths enough details for his next speech. Kriegbaum shouldn't "escape", says Anton. The hard-hitting “car locksmith” Rudolf prevents the unannounced visit from escaping. In any case, the ministerial director wanted to pay 500 marks less for the car repairs than an offer from a third party promised the brothers. Anton takes Kriegbaum's pocket knife and stabs the owner. The next handwritten submission is due after the funeral. This time to the address of Dr. Kirstein.
Adaptations
- 22 July 1961, ARD : TV film by Peter Zadek with Gernot Duda as Rudolf, Klaus Kinski as Anton and Helmut Qualtinger as Dr. War tree.
- 1987, Radio SRF 1 : radio play by Rainer Zur Linde with Klaus Degenhardt as Anton, Jupp Saile as Rudolf and Wolfgang Schwarz as Dr. War tree.
- 2003, BR : TV film by Felix Fuchssteiner with Frank Giering as Anton and Michael Schenk as Rudolf.
literature
- Tankred Dorst: Big diatribe on the city wall. Freedom for Clemens. The curve. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1962. Collection Theater Texts 5. 119 pages
Used edition
- The curve. A farce. Pp. 145–179 in Tankred Dorst. Early pieces. Work edition 3 (content: The cat or how to play the game . Society in autumn . The curve. Big diatribe on the city wall . Rameau's nephew . The Mohrin . The judge of London ) Suhrkamp Verlag 1986 (1st edition), ISBN 3 -518-03009-4 , 404 pages.
Secondary literature
- Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Text + criticism Issue 145: Tankred Dorst . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich, January 2000, ISBN 3-88377-626-2
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature . German Authors A-Z . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 , p. 126, left column
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Erken bei Arnold, p. 85, left column, last entry
- ^ Film 1961 and The Curve 1961 in the IMDb
- ↑ Radio play 1987 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The curve in the IMDb
