Doctor Faust's coat
Doctor Faust's coat (also: Faust's coat for short ) is a comedy by Adolf Bäuerle .
background
The play, a magic game with singing in two acts, was premiered in December 1817 in the Leopoldstadt Theater . Bäuerle was employed there as a secretary and wrote the play for the comedian Ignaz Schuster .
action
In the original version, he plays a shoemaker who gets to Faust's miracle cloak and a wishing hat and can thus conjure up a fortune, but then constantly commits stupidities and misdeeds and thus sinks again.
Edits
In the adaptation by Susanne Felicitas Wolf , the poet Heinrich Winter is chased naked into the street by his future father-in-law, and there he is offered an old coat by the penniless journeyman cobbler, Fledermaus, which turns out to be a magical coat. Together with Fledermaus, who still has a magic cap, both of them suddenly gain wealth thanks to their magical pieces of clothing, but due to the idiosyncratic nature of their environment they get into all sorts of turbulence, which they mostly caused themselves, but which are steadily increasing.
literature
- Adolf Bäuerle: Doctor Faust's coat. A magic game with singing in two acts. Leopold Grund Publishing House, Vienna 1819.
- Adolf Bäuerle: Doctor Faust's coat / The citizens in Vienna Edition Holzinger, Berlin 2017.