Through the desert (open air play)

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Title: Through the dessert
Genus: Adventure in North Africa for open air stages
Original language: German
Author: Wulf Leisner
Literary source: Karl May : Through the desert , sands of perdition , Allah il Allah and Merhameh .
Publishing year: 1963
Premiere: July 13, 1963
Place of premiere: Kalkberg Stadium , Bad Segeberg
Place and time of the action: The North African desert between Tunisia and Egypt , at the beginning of the 1870s
Director of the premiere Wulf Leisner
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The open-air play Through the desert based on a model by Karl May was written by Wulf Leisner as a play for open-air stages in 1963 and premiered on July 13, 1963 under his direction in the Kalkberg Stadium in Bad Segeberg as part of the Karl May Festival .

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The basis of the piece was a slightly reworked version of " Hajji Halef Omar ", whose book Wulf Leisner and Roland Schmid had written together in 1955. Only the first act had been rewritten with additional motifs made from the sands of doom . Roland Schmid saw only a reprise in the new piece and ignored himself.

Performances

  • The open-air play was premiered in 1963 in the Kalkberg Stadium in Bad Segeberg .
  • In 2012, the Jonsdorf open-air theater dramatized this selection of material as “The Great Journey to the Orient”.

source

  • Entry in the Karl May Wiki

Text book

  • Wulf Leisner : Through the desert. An open-air play based on Karl May's stories about the Orient , Bamberg: Karl May Verlag Joachim Schmid & Co. 1963 (working copy).

literature

  • Nicolas Finke: Orient & Balkan on the stage - example Bad Segeberg: A historical picture arch 1955–1978 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 90/2002.
  • Henning Franke: Oscar's disappearance. Karl May's Kolporta novel “German Hearts, German Heroes” as a source of motifs for open-air play and film . In: Karl-May-Welten II. Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg / Radebeul 2007.
  • Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl May Games Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl May Verlag 1999, p. 74 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerd_Teller
  2. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerhard_Hönisch
  3. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ben_Hamalek
  4. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Badija
  5. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hiluja
  6. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Haluja
  7. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Falehd
  8. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tarik
  9. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hilal
  10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hadschi_Halef_Omar_(Theaterstück)
  11. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_große_Orientreise_(Jonsdorf_2012)