Hajji Halef Omar (outdoor play)
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| Title: | Hajji Halef Omar |
| Genus: | Adventure in North Africa for open air stages |
| Original language: | German |
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Wulf Leisner , Roland Schmid |
| Literary source: | Karl May : Through the desert , Allah il Allah! and Merhameh . |
| Publishing year: | 1955 |
| Premiere: | August 6, 1955 |
| Place of premiere: | Kalkberg Stadium in 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 Hadschi Halef Omar based on models by Karl May was written by Roland Schmid and Wulf Leisner as a play for open-air stages:
- An open-air play based on Karl May's travel stories "Through the Desert" and "Allah il Allah" by Wulf Leisner and Roland Schmid for 3 women, 18 men. Stat.
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1st act
In a gorge in the Homra Mountains, the French envoy Galingré is murdered by the Turkish consignor Sadik Effendi and the Russian consignor Aksakow and searched in vain for important papers. Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar join in and interrogate the two who deny having anything to do with the murder.
After the sendlings have ridden off, Kara and Halef examine the dead man and find important papers in his turban: a warning to the Beni Sallah and the plan for a secret caravan route. It's about 300 rifles and 300,000 cartridges, a gift from the foreign sendlings (= Sufara) to the Sheik of the Beni Suef to fight the Beni Sallah. The discord of the great tribes means power and rule of the lands of the foreign Sufara over all tribes of the Beni Arab. Kara and Halef take his watch and bury the dead.
A group of El-Homra appears, followed by Kruger Bei, the colonel of the Tunisian bodyguard of the Bei of Tunis (and at the same time adviser to the great Khedive). Sadik Effendi and Aksakov accuse Kara and Halef of Galingré's murder. Achmed, the Sheik of El-Homra, wants to have the two arrested. But Kruger Bei recognizes his friend Kara and vouches for him and his servant Halef. Instead, the two sendlings are now arrested.
Krüger Bei wants to “acquire” a young woman on behalf of his pasha, the Bei of Tunis. It concerns the Bedouin girl Hiluja, the sister of Badija, the queen of the desert. She is accompanied by Haluja, her old servant, and the Targi Ben Hamalek.
Krüger Bei is married by the mullah who has rushed up and immediately divorced. It turns out, however, that the chosen one and immediately cast out again is not Hiluja, but Haluja, the old servant. Kruger Bei is upset that he paid so much bride money for this. Several shots are fired in the background: Ben Hamalek has secretly freed the broadcasts. He himself escapes the excited scene with Hiluja.
Kara, Halef, Krüger Bei, Achmed and Haluja take up the chase and make their way to the Sokna oasis .
2nd act
Akskov and Sadik watch as Sheik Mehemed, his brother Amram, and some Beni Suef approach, with Hilal, a Ben Salah, in their midst. On the way he met the mysterious caravan and the Chabir allowed him to join. Before they leave, Sadik Mehemed asks that Amram silence this Hilal.
In the lively dialogue between Amram and Hilal, Amram reveals the secret of the caravan and chases Hilal into the desert without a horse. He shoots him several times. Hilal remains motionless behind a boulder. In the distance the singing of the sand can be heard.
Ben Hamalek and Hiluja appear on the scene. The sandstorm has settled between her and her pursuers. Hiluja threatens Ben Hamalek with her sister, the great Khanum, mistress of the desert, and the vengeance of Beni Sallah. She is sure that the strange Effendi will save her. And indeed: Kara Ben Nemsi appears and wrestles Ben Hamalek down and ties him up. Halef wants to couple Kara and the freed Hiluja together. Kara, however, does not want to convert to Islam or connect with the woman.
Enter the loudly shouting Kruger Bei. Sheik Achmed, Haluja and the warriors of El Homra follow. Achmed sees the Targi and asks about the escaped Sufara. He wants to sit in judgment on Ben Hamalek. But Kara Ben Nemsi lets him go. Before this can proceed, Krüger Bei gets the 300 Maria Theresa thalers back from him, which he paid for his "courtship". The Sheik and the warriors of Homra take up the pursuit of the Targi.
Krüger Bei now meets his originally aspired bride and is very enthusiastic about Hiluja. Kara urges them to leave and wants to escort the Beni Abbas daughters safely through the dangers and horrors of the desert to the Beni Sallah tents. Kara and Halef discover the fatally injured Hilal, who speaks feverishly of the ghost caravan that is not allowed to get to the Beni Suef.
Amram, Ali and Ibrahim hunt down on their horses. The group protects Hilal from the eyes of the Beni Suef. With his last strength Hilal accuses the murderers and then collapses. Kara points the revolver at her. Amram admits the killing of Hilal and reports the sinking of the caravan in the sandstorm. Kara doesn't believe him and asks Halef to escort him to the Sands of Doom. Ali and Ibrahim are released to the Beni Suef, Amram remains as a bargaining chip on the way to the Beni Sallah with Kara and Halef.
3rd act
In the Holy Assembly of Beni Sallah (with muezzin and Imam ) to elect a new sheiks Badija calls for peace, Faled to fight on. Faled reminds his brother's widow of the law: the sheik's widow must become his brother's wife. The Khanum is silent because her heart belongs to Tarik. A duel for life and death must decide the matter.
Kara interferes and refers to the wrong game of the sendlings who have delivered weapons to both tribes. Aksakov, for his part, accuses Kara and Krüger Bei of intent to subjugate the free Bedouin tribes.
Halef interferes and brings Faled down in a duel. The mood of the gathering darkens. Kara and Faled fight, Kara forces Faled down but releases him again. Imam Esra intervenes and reminds of the peace of the jemma. Badija and Kara Ben Nemsi share the salt of friendship. Kara reports on the secret of the big caravan and presents the papers as evidence. He destroys the plan so that the sands of perdition become sands of oblivion. Halef drives away the two sendlings with his hippopotamus whip .
When asked by the muezzin, Tarik, Halef and Kara (and also Krüger Bei) are ready to fight for Badija with Faled. Kruger Bei is the first to fight and swings his saber. Faled doesn't want to compete against this dervish. Kara agrees to fight for Badija and Tarik at the same time, since as a Christian he cannot become Sheik of Beni Sallah.
In a duel, Kara Faled stretches to the ground. He reluctantly asks for mercy. Kara gives him life. Ezra then solemnly expelled Faled from the tribe of the Beni Sallah. Tarik is proclaimed sheik. The Khanum follows the laws of the fathers.
The congregation judges Amram, Hilal's murderer. When the death sentence is about to be announced, Hiluja steps in and recalls an old promise: after an earlier salvation from danger of death, she has a request and asks for Amram's freedom. Kara also pleads for Amram's life and the end of the blood revenge .
Tarik loosens Amram's chains. Hiluja reminds him that what he has done is not yet free before Allah. Amram is aware of this and wants to do everything for reconciliation. Tarik declares Amram to be his brother and gives him the clothes of Hilal, his slain brother, as an outward sign. An Arabic fantasia closes the great hour of peace.
Suddenly Badija's cry can be heard from the height of the fort: Faled has taken her hostage. Tarik storms the rock and defeats Faled in a breathtaking scene.
A shot is fired: Sheik Mehemed appears with the armed warriors of the Beni Suef. He shoots Amram thinking it is Tarik. Kara kneels next to Amram, as do Halef and Hiluja. The dying asks the sheiks of Beni Suef and Beni Sallah to shake hands. Amram to Hiluja: “I have succeeded in saving myself.” Hiluja to the tribes: “If a person takes revenge in his hand, he meets no one but his own brother! From now on be peace! "
Sadik gossips about it, Mehemed shoots him as the real culprit. Kara appeals once more to all warriors. Solemn gestures, moving parting words and great Arabic fantasies at the end!
Performances
The open-air play was premiered in Bad Segeberg in 1955 , making it the first ever oriental production after Karl May. Further performances took place in Bad Segeberg in 1959 and in Elspe in 1964 .
Wulf Leisner's open-air play “ Through the Desert ” (1963) used very similar templates and text selections - Roland Schmid saw in it only a recapitulation and ignored himself.
In 2012, the Jonsdorf open-air theater dramatized this selection of material as “The Great Journey to the Orient”.
source
- Wulf Leisner , Roland Schmid : Hadschi Halef Omar. Adventures in North Africa based on Karl May's travel stories "Through the desert" - "Merhameh" - "Allah il Allah" edited for open-air stages , Bamberg: Karl-May-Verlag , 3rd edition 1964.
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. 40 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Paul_Galingré
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Beni_Sallah
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Beni_Suef
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Medscherdah
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Krüger-Bei
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Bei_von_Tunis
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Khedive
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hiluja
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Badija
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Haluja
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ben_Hamalek
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hilal
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karawanenführer
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Beni_Abbas
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Falehd
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tarik
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Dschemma
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hadschi_Halef_Omar_(Bad_Segeberg_1959)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hadschi_Halef_Omar_(Elspe_1964)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Durch_die_Wüste_(Bad_Segeberg_1963)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_große_Orientreise_(Jonsdorf_2012)