Double conference

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The Doppelconférence is a cabaret number that consists of a dialogue between two actors, one of whom takes on the role of a clever and educated interlocutor, while the other acts as a dumb booby.

As a special form of conference , it originally mediated between two numbers.

history

The origin of the double conference lies in Budapest . Around 1900 Julius Kövary parodied the well-known artist Endre Nagy , first in the cabaret “Bonbonniere”, then later in Nagy's own “Nagy Endre Cabaret”. So there were two Nagys on stage: the real one who announced the number and the wrong one. This resulted in a linguistic duel that lasted until the next issue: the double conference as a dispute conference.

László Vadnay created the principle of The G'scheite and the Stupid with the two characters Hacsek and Sajó. The two are Budapest coffee house visitors who want to change the world from the coffee house table. First invented as a newspaper column, the two characters later came onto the stage.

Around 1920 the double conference reached Vienna twice: on the one hand by Karl Farkas , on the other hand by Wilhelm Gyimes , owner of the Viennese Femina bar , of Hungarian origin. Gyimes brings the Hacsek and Sajó numbers with Fritz Imhoff and Fritz Heller to the stage.

Waldbrunn and Farkas during a recording for the program Current Issues (1950)

Karl Farkas appeared on November 1, 1922 for the first time together with Fritz Grünbaum in the Simpl cabaret . As until the end of his life, Farkas gave the clever ones and Grünbaum the stupid ones. At first, the two’s double conference was even more of a conference than a number; for example, they also addressed each other by their real names. After the Second World War, with Ernst Waldbrunn as stupid, pairs of figures such as Mr. Berger and Mr. Schöberl were created for television, who no longer appear in front of the curtain but play in the backdrops.

However, Farkas and Grünbaum are also referred to as the inventors of the dialogical double conference.

According to Hans Veigl , however, the double conference with Grünbaum and Farkas reached its climax in German-speaking countries . The two give it the final shape. In quick speech and counter-speech, they deal dialectically with current events, but also everyday observations and other things.

The Viennese folk singer Johann Baptist Moser (1799–1863) created so-called “Conversations” in which the types of the “clever” and the “stupid” (often supplemented by the “Frotzler”) met: The Conversation in Paradeisgartl (1866 ), Conversation on Birthdays , The Two Chair Bearers (1843), The Conversation in Front of the Displacement Office , and The Conversation in the Glass House (1859).

Definitions

Several definitions of the double conference have come down to us from Karl Farkas:

  • A double conference is a conference that has to be held by two artists because one of them does not dare to take responsibility alone.
  • A double conference is a dialogue between a fool and a fool, whereby the fool tries to explain something clever to the fool as cleverly as possible, so that the fool is able to give the most foolish answers possible - with the result that in the end the fool not wiser, but things get too stupid for the wise man. In the end, both of them have nothing to smile about. But the more the audience.

See also

further reading

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Wiener: Double conference. Ullstein 1992, ISBN 3-548-22797-X .
  2. a b c d Julia Sobieszek: Laughing in the cellar. The Simpl from 1912 until today . Amalthea, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85002-610-9 , p. 62ff.
  3. Wolfgang Beck: Conference . In: Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): Theater Lexicon 1: Terms and epochs, stages and ensembles . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9 , pp. 281f.
  4. Hans Veigl: Afterword . In: Hans Veigl (ed.): In your own nest. Thus spoke Karl Farkas . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-218-00479-9 , p. 212.
  5. Monika Kriegler-Griensteidl: I often have such terrible dreams. In: Marie-Theres Arnbom , Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz : Grüß mich Gott! Fritz Grünbaum. A biography. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85498-419-7 , p. 95.
  6. a b quoted from: Julia Sobieszek: To laugh in the cellar. The Simpl from 1912 until today . Amalthea, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85002-610-9 , p. 66.

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