The other's pocket watch
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| Title: | The other's pocket watch |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Willi Olbrich |
| Publishing year: | 2006 |
| Premiere: | April 8, 2006 |
| Place of premiere: | Event room of the Hotel Am Sachsengang in Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | February 25, 1912 in Chemnitz |
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The Other's Pocket Watch is a play by Willi Olbrich, which was also staged as a radio play . The play takes place in the courtroom in Chemnitz on Karl May's 70th birthday . It refers to the so-called theft of watches at Christmas 1861 and stages May's fictional rehabilitation.
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“With the theft of a watch, Karl May's bourgeois existence ended and an adventure of life began. But the perpetrator was not convicted of stealing a watch, but only of unauthorized use; Even the court at the time was not entirely convinced of his - Karl Mays - guilt. And now Willi Olbrich shows himself to be an expert on the subject: In his one-act play he uncovered further contradictions, takes the position of those involved at the time ad absurdum and shows us not only what was done and said, but also what one (on purpose!) refrained and kept silent. The questions about why reveal a variety of personal motives, the coincidence of which gives the accused the impression of a plot. The climax of the negotiation is the statement of the travel agent Scheunpflog, the owner of the watch, and his cold-tempered speech turned Willi Olbrich into a masterpiece. "
Play
The play was premiered on April 8, 2006 in Vienna as a staged reading. The place and occasion was the beginning of the gala night on the occasion of the 5th Austrian Karl May meeting in Groß-Enzersdorf .
It had its Swiss premiere in Lucerne on October 21, 2006 .
radio play
In 2008 Meike Anders published a "dramatic audio book". All roles in it - except for the narrator ( Herbert Graedtke ) and the sergeant's wife (Iris Würgler) - were spoken by Jean-Marc Birkholz .
Others
In the announcement as part of the preliminary program for the 5th Austrian Karl May meeting, the play was still called “Rehabilitation for Charly”.
The 16-page text book was published under the title The Pocket Watch of the Other: Karl May's “so-called” Uhrendiebstahl 1861 2006 and was available from the Swiss Karl May Friends.
source
Entry in the Karl May Wiki
literature
- Klaus-Peter Heuer: The pocket watch complex . In: Wiener Karl-May-Brief, Issue 2–3 / 2006.
- Hans Langsteiner: Willi Olbrich's “Pocket Watch of the Other” as an audio book . In: Wiener Karl-May-Brief 2/2008.
Web links
- Entry on the radio play at karl-may-hoerspiele.info (with reviews).