A woman who knows what she wants

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A woman who knows what she wants (also: Manon ) is a musical comedy in two acts (five images) based freely on Le Fauteuil 47 (1923) by Louis Verneuil . The book is by Alfred Grünwald , the music was written by Oscar Straus . The operetta premiered on September 1, 1932 in the Metropol Theater in Berlin.

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The publisher of the work, Felix Bloch Erben, offers a detailed table of contents.

“The story is a routine one about a hard-headed business man whose lovely young daughter feels the call of the blood of the mother, who gave up husband and child for her stage career fifteen years before. But the circumstances of the inevitable meeting of mother and daughter and the outcome of the conflict between Mr. Matisson and the great Cavallini are handled in such a way as to keep the spectators in doubt until the last minute. The charming Lil Dagover is well supported by the blonde Maria Beling , the dashing Adolf Wohlbrueck and the stern Anton Edthofer . Based on one of Oscar Straus's minor operettas, the film contains several well-performed musical numbers. ”

- Summary of the 1934 film

" Lilli Palmer plays two roles in the musical mix-up comedy: a middle-class teacher slips into the role of her deceased grandmother, a celebrated revue singer and lady-of-life, in order to redeem her legacy."

- Film adaptation from 1957/58 with different content

“A middle-class teacher takes on the role of her late grandmother. This was a celebrated revue singer and lady of the century. She left her granddaughter a suitcase full of operetta costumes and ten thousand thalers as well as the advice to use the money she inherited to help the local theater play the leading role and to look for the author and composer of the work after the premiere. "

Music numbers

Sound documents on records

  • Couplet der Ninon , from A woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - A. Grünwald)
    Fritzi Massary m. Orchestra, conductor: Hans Schindler . Electrola EG2604 (OD 1083-III) 1932 ( Youtube )
  • Why should a woman not have a relationship? , Chanson from the operetta A woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - A. Grünwald)
    Fritzi Massary m. Orchestra, conductor: Hans Schindler. Electrola EG2604 (OD 1084-II) 1932 ( Youtube )
  • I am a woman who knows what she wants , chanson from the operetta A woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - A. Grünwald)
    Fritzi Massary m. Orchestra, conductor: Hans Schindler. Electrola EG2605 (OD 1091-III) 1932
  • Every woman has some sort of longing . Chanson from the operetta A woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - A. Grünwald)
    Fritzi Massary m. Orchestra, conductor: Hans Schindler. Electrola EG2605 (OD 1092-II) 1932 ( Youtube )
  • The thing that is called love , song and tango from the operetta A woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - A. Grünwald)
    Oscar Joost and his orchestra. Singing: Austin Egen . Kristall 3307 (C 2246), Berlin 1932
  • Every woman has a little longing , slow fox from the sound film: a woman who knows what she wants (Oscar Straus - Alfred Grünwald)
    Hermann von Stachow dance orchestra with German refraing singing: Leo Monosson . Polydor No. 24 823 B (1934) ( Youtube )

Re-releases

  • CD "Memories of Fritzi Massary". Label: Preiser (Naxos Germany Music & Video Distribution). Release date January 1, 1997,
    contains from Oscar Straus: A woman who knows what she wants , operetta:
    I am a woman who knows what she wants 2:40 / Every woman has some longing 3:22 / Ninon, Ninon 3:05 / Why should a woman not have a relationship? 3:13
  • CD "Operetta dreams: the whole world is sky blue". Number of discs: 2. Label: Elite Special. Copyright: 1999. Release date November 15, 1999,
    contains on disc 1:
    “Melodies by Oscar Straus: I am a woman who knows what she wants - Well, the woman doesn't have something - The thing called love - That is the last waltz - every woman has a little longing "

Film adaptations

  • Feature film Germany 1934, director: Victor Janson , main role: Lil Dagover , music (adaptation): Werner Schmidt-Boelcke . World premiere: Germany August 31, 1934. Also in Austria and Czechoslovakia.
  • Feature film Czechoslovakia 1934, director: Václav Binovec , script : Vilém Werner and Jaroslav Mottl. Czech version of “A woman who knows what she wants” D 1934.
    Original title: Žena, ktera vi co chce . First performance August 17, 1934. Cast: Markéta Krausová as Manon Cavallini, Jirí Steimar as Mr. Cavallini, Truda Grosslichtová as Vera, Ružena Slemrová as Babetta
  • A woman who knows what she wants , feature film BR Germany 1957/1958, director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt . Main role: Lilli Palmer , music (arrangement): Erwin Straus . World premiere: February 25, 1958, Düsseldorf, Apollo; First broadcast on television: April 22, 1963, ZDF.

Work history

Fritzi Massary (1882–1969) played the title role in the premiere .

The performance of the operetta suffered from attacks by the National Socialists as early as 1932 and was deliberately disrupted.

The reason is certainly not only the participation of “non-Aryan” authors and actors, but also the changed image of women in it, which was in contradiction to that of the ethnic-national ideology.

The operetta continued to be performed in Austria after 1933.

In October 1960 it was re-staged in Vienna by Karl Farkas at the Raimund Theater , with Zarah Leander playing the leading role, in which it had already been seen at the premiere there in 1933, alongside Fritz Imhoff , Hannelore Cremer and Hans Unterkircher . From December 26, 1961 she also played the role in a guest appearance at the Storateater, Gothenburg.

The operetta has recently been staged again in a modern new production, in Berlin for the first time since its premiere in 1932 in 2015 under the direction of Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper Berlin, which is now in the building of what was then the Metropol Theater.

literature

  • A woman who knows what she wants. In: Illustrierter Film-Kurier. Film Propaganda Ges.mbH, Iss. 882, Vienna 1934, p. 8.
  • A woman who knows what she wants. In: Ill. (Czech Republic), Lichtspiel-Programm M. Schulz, Graph. Kunstanstalt A.-G., No. 171, 1934, p. 8.
  • Claude Gauteur: A propos de Louis Verneuil (1893–1952). Seguier Editions, 2007, ISBN 2-84049-496-5 (French).
  • Carl Dahlhaus, Research Institute for Music Theater at the University of Bayreuth under the direction of Sieghart Döhring (Ed.): Piper's Enzyklopädie des Musiktheater. Opera-Operetta-Musical-Ballet. Volume 6: A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1932). P. 47 ( table of contents , PDF).
  • Manja Seelen: The image of women in the works of German artists of the New Objectivity. LIT, 1995, ISBN 3-8258-2531-0 , p. 3.
  • Carola Stern: The thing you call love. The life of the Fritzi Massary. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-22529-8 .
    • Review by Anke Heimberg In: literaturkritik.de , No. 2, February 2002.
  • Kevin Clarke: Dangerous Poison. The “authentic” operetta - and what became of it after 1933. In: Albrecht Dümling (Ed.): The suspicious saxophone. (online) , November 20, 2007 ( operetta-research-center.org , here note 11).
  • Kevin Clarke: Aspects of performance practice or: How does a historically informed performance of the operetta sound? In: FZMw. Vol. 9 (2006), pp. 21-75, here: pp. 25 and 40 ( fzmw.de ).
  • Stefan Frey: Oscar Straus “A woman who knows what she wants”. In: LexM. 2007 (updated on Nov. 23, 2010 lexm.uni-hamburg.de ).
  • Sophie Ebert: Operetta History. The brothel is dancing. In: Spiegel Online Kultur. December 21, 2011 ( spiegel.de ).

Web links

  • A woman who knows what she wants. ( murnau-stiftung.de ).
  • Louis Verneuil: Screenplays for films in the film lexicon at zweiausendeins.de
  • Oscar Straus , online at Exil-Archiv. , Else Lasker-Schüler-Stiftung: Burned and exiled poets / artists - for a center for the persecuted arts , Wuppertal
  • Oscar Straus In: Operetta Lexicon.
  • Peter Kamber: Short address on the inauguration of the memorial plaque for Fritz and Alfred Rotter. (Berlin, Theater im Admiralspalast, July 4, 2008, peterkamber.de , PDF; 58 kB).
  • Claus J. Frankl: What the press wrote so far about a new production of “A woman who knows what she wants”. February 20, 2006 ( claus-j-frankl.de ).

Illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Verneuil (originally Louis Colin du Bocage, 1893–1952) (see Louis Verneuil in the Internet Movie Database ) wrote the libretti for “My sister and me” (Ma soeur et moi) (together with Georges Berr ) , to the sound film “Burglar” (D 1930, director: Hanns Schwarz) and to “A woman who knows what she wants” (adaptation by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, FRG 1958 - A woman who knows what she wants (1958) in the Internet Movie Database (English)).
  2. ↑ Theatertexte: A woman who knows what she wants (Manon) ( theatertexte.de ).
  3. ↑ (in sub-distribution for the music publisher and stage sales Zurich AG. - felix-bloch-orben.de ).
  4. ^ German War Films.
  5. ↑ Murnau Foundation murnau-stiftung.de ;
    cinefacts.de
  6. ↑ stadtus.de
  7. ^ Contents "Memories of Fritzi Massary" according to answers.com
  8. ↑ Contents "Operetta dreams: The whole world is sky blue" according to amazon.de ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amazon.de
  9. ↑ The films for which Schmidt-Boelcke composed the music include "A woman who knows what she wants" (1934)
  10. ↑ A woman who knows what she wants (1934) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  11. ↑ A woman who knows what she wants (1934) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  12. ↑ A woman who knows what she wants (BR Germany 1957/1958, feature film). In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed October 24, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Clarke: Aspects “At the same time, they gave the title of the after 1900, from the point of view of the time contemporary and predominantly Austro-Judean operettas by Lehár, Kálmán, Ábrahám, Granichstaedten, Leo Fall (The merry farmer and the dollar princess 1907, The Rose von Stambul 1916, Madame Pompadour 1923) and Oscar Straus (A waltz dream 1907, The brave soldier 1908, The last waltz 1920, A woman who knows what she wants 1932) as "silver" and thus suggested that the works were inferior to those from the 19th century. "
  14. ↑ Kamber: “The operetta“ A woman who knows what she wants ”(music: Oscar Straus; text book: Alfred Grünwald), which had a major premiere on September 1, 1932 in the“ Metropol-Theater ”on Behrenstrasse and lasted for months played, was over time also disturbed by the well-known Nazi shouts. "
  15. ↑ Sophie Ebert: "The 'new woman' who is employed, who self-confidently defends herself against male tutelage, who undermines traditional gender identities through her clothing style, did not remain just a phenomenon of elitist circles of artists and intellectuals."
  16. ^ S. Ebert: The new woman in theater and mass media of the Weimar Republic. (uni-frankfurt.de) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and the literature recommendations given there on the subject. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de
  17. ↑ "Already played in Berlin," A woman who knows what she wants "was resumed in Vienna in 1933." - ( Fritzi Massary in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM))
  18. ↑ A woman who knows what she wants , in the article Stage Roles on Paul Seiler's website : Zarah Leander Archive.
  19. ↑ Review of Frankl, February 20, 2006: “… the main female role of Manon Falconetti was played by Fritzi Massary. In the performance, the legendary diva was present in old photos. In Frankl's small version of the actually opulent set operetta, the pictures were sufficient as a backdrop. The Bayreuth director has created a staging that is ready to travel, so to speak, that can be played anywhere without great logistical effort. And all you need is a piano to replace the orchestra and three lively singers who slip from one role to the other. Whether as a cleaning lady with a mop and toilet brush, as a swarmed diva, as a lisping daughter Lucy or as a loving tennis instructor with the urge to go to the broom closet ... "- online ( memento of the original from August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at claus-j-frankl.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / claus-j-frankl.de
  20. ↑ Komische Oper Berlin: A woman who knows what she wants! Musical comedy in two acts [1932] - January 13, 2019, 7:00 p.m. Komische Oper Berlin, accessed on December 27, 2018 .