Purgatory in Ingolstadt
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| Title: | Purgatory in Ingolstadt |
| Genus: | play |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Marieluise Fleißer |
| Publishing year: | 1924 |
| Premiere: | April 25, 1926 |
| Place of premiere: | Young stage in the Deutsches Theater , Berlin |
| Place and time of the action: | Ingolstadt , around 1924 |
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Purgatory in Ingolstadt is a play in six pictures by Marieluise Fleißer from 1924. The first work of the then 22-year-old Fleißer was originally entitled The Washing of the Feet .
action
The action takes place among high school students during the holiday season. Olga is expecting a child from Peps, but he now ignores her and loves Hermione. Then the disfigured and foul-smelling outsider Roelle turns to Olga, which is why Olga's sister Clementine becomes jealous of Olga.
Since Roelle learns that Olga has visited an angel maker , he tries to blackmail Olga with this knowledge. At first, Olga is happy about his understanding, but runs away when he tries to force tenderness with force.
But Roelle feels like a saint and wants to summon an angel to the crowd at a fair. When that fails, stones are thrown at him. He takes refuge in Olga and her siblings, where Peps and Hermione are. The drunk youths finally pounce on him and immerse him in a vat.
When Olga confesses to her father that she is pregnant and does not understand it, she decides to put an end to her life. When she tries to drown herself, however, she is saved by Roelle. This has since been expelled from school on Hermione's initiative for having gouged out a dog's eyes. Roelle pretends to be the father of Olga's child in order to regain respect, but only achieves that Olga is now also ostracized.
Both are exposed to the " purgatory " of classmates, fellow citizens, parents, acolytes and the opaque agents Protasius and Gervasius. In order to overcome their outsider existence, they defame each other: When Roelle justifies his behavior, Olga claims that he “pulled her down” to him. After all, Roelle really believes she is in a state of mortal sin and wants to confess. But since he doesn't trust himself to make a correct confession, he eats the confession slip .
reception
On the recommendation of Bertolt Brecht , the Fleißer about Lion Feuchtwanger had met in 1924, the piece was originally Foot washing was said that under the new title Purgatory in Ingolstadt on 25 April 1926 in a one-time matinee performance at the young stage of the Deutsches Theater listed . The director was Paul Bildt, assisted by Brecht .
The piece was then praised by all prominent critics. Alfred Kerr called Fleißer, with slight doubts about her sole authorship, a “precious copyist of petty-human predators in the local and modern Middle Ages”, and Herbert Ihering also praised the young author's work. The piece was compared with works by Ernst Barlach , Arnolt Bronnens and Else Lasker-Schülers .
Fleißer himself called it a play about "the pack law and about the outcasts". It is "experienced by young people who have to search and are still a long way from finding, who run astray to the point of longing for death and there is no one who can help them." She confessed that her piece was “the result of the clash between my Catholic monastery education and my encounter with Feuchtwanger and the works of Brecht”.
After the successful premiere, however, the piece was forgotten for 45 years. Only with the Fleißer renaissance at the beginning of the 1970s was it performed again by the Berliner Ensemble at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . For the new productions, Fleißer revised her work twice in order to emphasize the spiritual and religious needs of the main characters. Important productions of this time were those by Günther Ballhausen ( Wuppertal 1971), Jürgen Flimm ( Zurich 1972) and Peter Stein ( West Berlin , Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer , 1972).
Further performances:
- 2010 performance at the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the direction of Barbara Frey .
- 2013 performance at the Münchner Kammerspiele under the direction of Susanne Kennedy, who received the award as a young director and Lotte Goos for her costumes as young costume designer of the year 2013 from the specialist magazine "Theater heute". The production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2014.
Remarks
- ↑ Harenberg Culture Guide Acting, 2007, s. 171
- ↑ http://fritzgross.de/2010/09/fegefeuer-in-ingolstadt-marie-luise-fleiser/
- ↑ http://www.lernzeit.de/sendung.phtml?detail=701140
- ↑ http://fritzgross.de/2010/09/fegefeuer-in-ingolstadt-marie-luise-fleiser
- ↑ FAZ of September 18, 2010, page 34. The dullest instincts, the steepest language
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 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.
