Emperor Joseph and the daughter of the railroad attendant
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| Title: | Emperor Joseph and the daughter of the railroad attendant |
| Genus: | Parodic play with music |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (edited by Friedrich Torberg ) |
| Premiere: | January 10, 1957 |
| Place of premiere: | Münchner Kammerspiele , Munich |
| Place and time of the action: | in front of the gatekeeper house in Wuzelwang am Wuzel, 1786 |
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The roles marked with * are mute, do not have to be specially cast for performances and can be omitted from the list of persons. |
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Emperor Joseph and the Railway Warden's Daughter is a parodic play with music in three acts by Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando . The piece, which was not published during the author's lifetime, was premiered posthumously on January 10, 1957 in the Münchner Kammerspiele in an arrangement by Friedrich Torberg as a one-act play.
The original version of Emperor Joseph II and the railroad attendant's daughter. A dramatic voice from Inner Austria brought to life by Friedrich von Orlando Herr und Landstand in Krain and on the Windischen Mark, patricians of Trieste and Fiume etc.etc. Dedicated by the same to the same reverently. was performed for the first time at the Steirischer Herbst on September 25, 1977.
content
The piece takes place in Wuzelwang am Wuzel near the station building. Teuxelsieder Franz comes back from the Bockerlklauben when Alois, his superior and future father-in-law, tells him to call the railroad workers together. The railway workers go on regularly namely chamois poaching in the imperial forests. Nozerl wants to stop them, but the men don't listen to them. Nozerl now has to watch the train alone when a special train with a distinguished man arrives. The strange man is the emperor, but Nozerl does not recognize him. A train arrives from the wrong side and many people get out, including Chancellor Cobenzl. But the emperor doesn't want his name to be revealed.
But then the game shooters come with a dead chamois and are called to account. Nozerl passes out into the emperor's arms. Teuxelsieder Franz believes that she has betrayed him and wants to kill the emperor, but the other railroad workers stop him. When Rinaldo Rinaldini , a murderer who also came by train, sees his chance for a major assassination attempt on the emperor, he attacks him. Teuxelsieder Franz rushes in between and plunges the murderer into the abyss. He is then appointed baron by the emperor. At this very moment a balloon arrives with the British ambassador, who announces that the railroad will not be invented in England until years later and that all previous inventions are forbidden. The emperor sees that and everyone thinks that is Austria's lot.
Film adaptations
The play was filmed in 1962 under the direction of Axel Corti . As an actor, u. a. Hans Moser , Hans Holt and Inge Konradi . Bert Breit wrote the music for the songs.
Settings
Werner Pirchner wrote incidental music on behalf of the Tyrolean Volksschauspiele for Emperor Joseph and the railroad attendant's daughter in 1982 , orchestrated with two trumpets, horn, tuba, several vocal soloists, piano and rhythm section. In the same year of the premiere, Werner Pirchner begins to rewrite the piece, the result is the 18-movement suite for brass quintet with the title Do you know Emperor Joe?
Productions
The piece was staged in 2015 by Wolfram Berger as a “parodic game with music in one act” and developed by him as a radio play version for Ö1.
There is also a record recording of an excerpt.
literature
- Herzmanovsky-Orlando: The Complete Works, edited and edited by Friedrich Torberg, Vienna: Georg Müller Verlag, 1957–1963.
- Herzmanovsky-Orlando: Complete Works Volume VI, published on behalf of the Brenner Archive Research Institute under the direction of Walter Methlagl and Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1985.