vinegar and oil

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Essig und Öl is the name of a Viennese folk piece with singing by Siegfried Geyer and Paul Frank (text) with music by Robert Katscher , which took up the subject of the global economic crisis and structural change in retail in a cheerful, illusionistic form .

history

The piece, which was premiered on September 2, 1932 in the Wiener Kammerspiele under the direction of Otto Preminger , proved to be very successful, not least because of the song sung by Hans Moser : "Doctor Lueger shook hands with me". It was and is also called an operetta in literature, the original name was "fairy tale".

The premiere took place on September 2, 1932. Participants included Hans Moser in the title role of grocer Seiberl, Käthe Gold in the role of his savior Annie, Ernst Arndt and Fita Benkhoff . Because of the Jewish origins of the authors, the play was rarely played in Germany. Performances can be verified for Saturday, January 14, 1933 and Thursday, January 19 and 26, 1933, at 8 p.m., in the Old Theater in Leipzig. (However, premieres in Wiesbaden and Munich still took place in 1933), after 1945 it was successfully staged again and again , especially in Austria , most recently in 2009 in the Gloria Theater in Vienna . In a TV film version from 1978, Guido Wieland played the role of Seiberl.

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Greißler Seiberl sees himself at an end economically. He looks back nostalgically on the Belle Epoque before 1914. Today his customers are impoverished, the economic crisis and competition from large chain stores such as the consumer cooperatives have ruined him. So he decides to hang himself. At that very moment, the nanny Annie comes into his shop and asks for a string. Annie gives Seiberl courage again, and after a few entanglements, it succeeds in getting the business to flourish again.

Book edition

  • Siegfried Geyer, Paul Frank; Song texts: Robert Katscher, Siegfried Geyer; Music: Robert Katscher: Vinegar and Oil. A fairy tale from Vienna. Alrobi Verlag, Berlin 1932. (Direction and prompting book)

Sound document

  • The Dr. Lueger shook hands with me, from "Essig und Öl" (Katscher - Geyer) Hans Moser, with orchestra accompaniment. Columbia DV. 978 (mx. WHA 483-2), up. Vienna 1932
  • Yes, the wine I mean, made from "vinegar and oil" (Katscher - Geyer). Hans Moser with orchestra accompaniment. Columbia DV. 978 (mx. WHA 484-2), up. Vienna 1932. This was Moser's first gramophone recording.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Grob, Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen: Otto Preminger. Jovis Verlag, 1999, p. 239.
  2. ↑ See Bitterfelder Anzeiger, 9., 17. u. January 25, 1933, p. 4. Category: Foreign theaters.
  3. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner, Jürgen Schläder (Eds.): Münchner Theatergeschichtliches Symposium 2000. S. 214.
  4. ↑ Thomas Eicher, Barbara Panse, Henning Rischbieter: Theater in the "Third Reich" - 2000. "With Paul Frank the ban took effect immediately after the« takeover ». It was only one last staging of his comedy« Essig und Oil »possible on February 28, 1933 at the Landestheater Wiesbaden.
  5. ↑ listen on youtube.com
  6. ↑ listen on youtube.com