The Teufelsmühle on Wienerberg

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Data
Title: The Teufelsmühle on Wienerberg
Genus: "An Austrian folk tale with singing in four acts"
Original language: German
Author: Karl Friedrich Hensler
Publishing year: 1799
Premiere: November 12, 1799
Place of premiere: Leopoldstadt Theater
Place and time of the action: Area around the Wienerberg
people
  • Knight Kilian von Drachenfels, former resident of the Teufelsmühle
  • Marie, his wife, as a ghost under different shapes
  • Günther von Schwarzenau, an Austrian knight
  • Käsperle, his squire
  • Hanns von Stauffen
  • Mathilde, his daughter
  • Bertha, her maid
  • Berthold, Vogt on the Stauffenburg
  • Knight Otto von Löbenstein
  • Jeriel, a guardian spirit
  • and other

The Teufelsmühle on Wienerberg is an "Austrian folk tale with song in four acts" by Karl Friedrich Hensler , which was published in 1799 in print. In it, Hensler worked on an old legendary motif to which he was drawn to the attention of the writer and theater director Leopold Huber (1766–1847).

action

At the center of the underlying legend is the eponymous devil's mill, which was bought by the robber baron Kilian von Drachenfels after the death of the owner. He continued to operate the mill in pretense and also opened an inn to attract, rob, and kill guests. His wife, called Marie in the play, had tried to dissuade him from his atrocities and was finally pushed into the well by him. At that time the earth trembled, tore open a hole and swallowed Kilian and all his people. From then on strange activities were seen in the mill, which will only stop when the woman is taken from the well and properly buried.

So much for the prehistory. In the play itself, the young knight Günther von Schwarzenau pulls his cap Käsperle to the Stauffenburg. He wants to ask for the hand of Hans von Stauffen's daughter, Mathilde. The threading of this connection is reflected in another love story between Hans and Märtchen, the cellar boy and the daughter of the landlord at the Wienerberge.

By the ghost of Marie, who was pushed into the well, Günther was pushed into the mill, which also contained “a wonderful treasure”. The act of ghosts (Marie appears again and again in different forms) mediates between the story of the story and the act of love.

background

The Teufelsmühle at Petersbach in Siebenhirten was first mentioned in a document in 1590/1591, but was probably older. From the 18th century a popular inn was located in its place. The legend also goes back to the 18th century.

Hensler's play was successfully premiered at the Leopoldstadt Theater in 1799 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Teufelsmühle. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 432 ( digitized version ).