Johann Wolfgang Schwarz

Johann Wolfgang Schwarz (* 1747 in Aibling , Upper Bavaria ; † 1835 in Oberaudorf , Upper Bavaria) was a German-Austrian game director , playwright and toll supervisor.

Life and meaning

The toll supervisor and customs office servant was the defining personality of the syndicate of the village theater Kiefersfelden (today Ritterschauspiele Kiefersfelden ) in the transition period between the rehearsal of performances of sacred games based on the example of Jesuit dramas and the form of the knight play that has been preferred since 1833. In 1801 the "Theaterschupfe" with the baroque rotating stage was opened in Kiefersfelden ; on it the Mysteries and Saints plays by Johann Wolfgang Schwarz were performed. His artistic decisions were influenced by politically turbulent times: The community of Kiefersfelden was a contested area between the Electorate / Kingdom of Bavaria and the state of Tyrol, which belonged to Austria after the freedom struggles .

As a result of the bans on Passion plays and sacred plays imposed in 1780 and 1784, Johann Wolfgang Schwarz fought to maintain and continue the Kiefersfeldener Spielgemeinschaft. He obtained the last performance of a Passion from the responsible authorities in 1813 and had an impact on the gambling community in the transition period until the new genre knight drama was established as a late form of popular drama.

Works

Own “sacred games” and adaptations

• The game of the holy martyr Sebastian
• The Comedy of Saint Alexius
• Bartholomew, Indian apostle
• The sold innocence or Anderl von Rinn
• Richard and Lepidus
• Alferus, the stubborn sinner
• Alphonsus or The Rosary Comedy
• Easter game (based on the Mastersinger Sebastian Wild)
• Exaltation of the holy cross

literature

• Paul Ernst Rattelmüller: The peasant shakespeare. The Kiefersfeldener Volkstheater and its knight plays; Munich 1973 (contains the pieces "Der Kaiser Ocktavianus" and "Ubald von Sternenburg")
• Frido Will: “The Volkstheater Kiefersfelden” - dissertation; Munich 1977 (Munich university publications / Munich contributions to theater studies - commission publisher J. Kitzinger)
• Hans Moser: Chronicle of Kiefersfelden (sources and representations on the history of the city and the district of Rosenheim, ed. Von Albert Aschl, Bd. 3); Rosenheim 1959 !! Hans Moser: People's play in the mirror of archival materials. A contribution to the cultural history of Old Bavaria (Bayerische Schriften zur Volkskunde, published by the Commission for Bavarian State History / Bavarian Academy of Sciences / Institute for Folklore; Munich 1991
• 375 years of the Volkstheater Ritterspiele Kiefersfelden / 200 years of Josef Schmalz; Published on the occasion of the 375th anniversary of the Volkstheater Kiefersfelden; Kiefersfelden 1993 (texts by Martin Hainzl jun. And Hans Stimpfl)
• Ekkehard Schönwiese: Kiefersfelden and his knight games (sic); Oberaudorf o. J. (Print: Helmut Meißner, approx. 2000)
• Martin Hainzl: Kiefersfelden and his knight spectacles - episode 5 in Kieferer Nachrichten No. 21 / August 1991 (municipality newspaper of the municipality of Kiefersfelden)
• Alois J. Weichslgartner: Schreiber und Poeten: Writers from Old Bavaria and Swabia in the 19th century, publishing house "Bayerland", Dachau, 2001, ISBN 3-8925-1307-4 , p. 126.