A village without men
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| Title: | A village without men |
| Genus: | Comedy in seven pictures |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Ödön from Horváth |
| Publishing year: | 1937 |
| Premiere: | September 24, 1937 |
| Place of premiere: | New German Theater , Prague |
| Place and time of the action: | During the Turkish Wars - in the early Renaissance |
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A village without men is a comedy by Ödön von Horváth . The play was premiered on September 24, 1937 at the New German Theater in Prague . The "Comedy in seven pictures" (so the subtitling of Horváth) is based on motifs from the novel "Szelistye, the village without men" by the Hungarian Kálmán Mikszáth . The manuscript of the drama is kept in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library.
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There are no more men living in Szelistye , a village in Transylvania . These had been drawn into the Turkish Wars for the father of the current Count of Sibiu and exterminated there. But new men are not drawn to the village because the women there are extremely ugly. The women want men and the young Count of Sibiu also wants them to have men again - this is the only way to properly cultivate the fields in the village and thus secure the Count's income. A delegation of women from Szelistye visits the king and asks that men be sent to them. The governor promises to do so, whereupon the king stipulates that three of the more beautiful residents of the village should first be shown to him. But since there are no such things, the count and a barber spin an intrigue: They send the bride of a young landlord, a bath maid and the count's wife as supposedly beautiful people from Szelistye to the king's hunting lodge. The king arrives there incognito and finally reveals the whole intrigue. In the end, thanks to an idea of the count's wife, everything turns out for the best when she suggests to the king:
“Szelistye is so lovely - the earth is good, the forest is dense, the farms are clean and everyone has their own field. Of course, women are really not beautiful, that's true - but are all men beautiful? Are there only beauties among you men? Give the ugly women ugly men - you will find some, and if not, then I will gladly help you, Your Majesty, in your search. "
Film adaptations
- 1963: A village without men , ZDF , director: Axel Corti , actor a. a .: Matthias Fuchs , Walther Reyer , Sonja Sutter .
- 1969: A village without men , co-production Bayerischer Rundfunk / ORF , director: Michael Kehlmann , music: Gerhard Bronner , actor a. a .: Peter Weck = King of Hungary , Rolf Boysen = The Count of Hermannstadt , Ernst Waldbrunn = Governor , Eric Pohlmann = Bader , Heidelinde Weis = the blonde , Hertha Martin = the red , Chariklia Baxevanos = the black , Manfred Inger = court officials / Governor .
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- Georg Hensel: Schedule 2 - The Drama Guide from Antiquity to the Present. Econ & List Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich, 1999. ISBN 3-612-26645-4 , p. 790
- Author portrait of Horváth at Suhrkamp Verlag. Retrieved October 17, 2013 .
- Ödön von Horváth: A village without men in the Gutenberg-DE project