Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria
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| Title: | Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria |
| Genus: | Folk piece |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Martin Sperr |
| Publishing year: | 1965 |
| Premiere: | May 27, 1966 |
| Place of premiere: | Bremen , Theater Bremen |
| Place and time of the action: | Reinöd in Lower Bavaria , 1948 |
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Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria is a stage play in 17 pictures by Martin Sperr from 1965.
action
In the village of Reinöd in Lower Bavaria , the usual, outwardly idyllic life has returned after the currency reform . But behind the scenes, the village war, which is directed against all outsiders, continues. The farmer Maria, who lives with her servant Volker after her husband did not return from the war, is seen as an eyesore. Her 18-year-old son Rovo, who suffers from a neurosis caused during the war, is considered a village idiot .
When Abram, who has served a prison sentence for homosexuality , returns to the village, however, a new target presents itself. Maria catches him talking to Rovo and claims that he seduced her son. Desperate about the psychological terror to which he is exposed, Abram offends himself on the maid Tonka. So he wants to prove that he is a "real man" . The neglected village girl is defamed as a whore .
When Tonka tells Abram that she is expecting a child and tries to blackmail him, he stabs her in a fit of anger and despair. A reward of 2,500 marks is offered for his capture. Eventually the villagers catch Abram and he ends up in prison . Rovo hangs himself.
Maria, on the other hand, succeeds in returning to the village community by marrying Volker. With the reward for Abram's capture, the church organ is repaired. At the Thanksgiving Festival , people celebrate extensively that peace has finally returned to the village.
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Sperr did not want to depict individual fates, but rather "the hunt down of people and the gathering together for such pleasure". None of the characters question the values of the village world depicted, least of all the outsiders: Rovo insults Tonka as a “whore”, Tonka calls Abram a “gay bastard”, and Maria succeeds in reintegrating through denunciation and marriage.
Sperr's folk play is one of the first of the new, socially critical folk theater. It made the author known in a flash. Sperr built the work into a trilogy with the successors Landshuter Erzählungen (1967) and Münchner Freiheit (1970). In the 1968 film adaptation by Peter Fleischmann , he played Abram himself. In 1969 the first performance took place in Munich under the direction of Ulrich Heising at the Münchner Kammerspiele with Hans Brenner , Maria Singer , Therese Giehse , Günther Maria Halmer and Ruth Drexel . In the same year, Sperr processed the plot in a short story for young people entitled The Hunt for Outsiders . In 1984, Sperr was seen as a pastor at a performance at the Munich Volkstheater . In October 2003, director Florian Fiedler performed a new version under the title Nieder Bayern at the Munich Volkstheater.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoting from Kindlers Literaturlexikon, October 1974, Vol. 24, p. 10718