Kampl
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| Title: | Kampl |
| Original title: | Kampl or the girl with millions and the seamstress |
| Genus: | Farce with singing in three acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Johann Nestroy |
| Literary source: | "L'Orgueil. La Duchesse ” by Eugène Sue |
| Music: | Carl Binder |
| Publishing year: | 1852 |
| Premiere: | March 29, 1852 |
| Place of premiere: | Carl Theater , Vienna |
| Place and time of the action: | The action takes place in the first scenes in a country town on the line of a large city, then in the city itself |
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Kampl , so the original title, in the printed version then Kampl or the girl with millions and the seamstress , is a farce with singing in three acts by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy in the sense of the old Viennese folk theater . It was premiered on March 29, 1852 at the Carl Theater in Vienna .
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The idealistic country doctor Kampl is commissioned by Baron von Felsbach to find the younger daughter who was once given away in anger. At that time he suspected his wife of adultery, sent her to the baths with the older daughter and gave the second unwanted child to Kampl, whose unfaithful wife, however, disappeared with the girl.
Felsbach's older daughter, the wealthy heiress Pauline, is supposed to marry her son Ludwig, according to the money-greedy Sidonia von Waschhausen's plans, her sister-in-law Cecilie wants the same for her favorite Gerbrand, a characterless hypocrite, and Hippolit for his friend Zackenburg, an uninhibited womanizer and Schemers, achieve. Hippolit, Sidonia and Cecilie believe they have found a willing helper in Kampl for their purposes. Kampl warns Felsbach about the dangers to which the rich daughter is exposed:
- “Don't you see, old school speci, that it is precisely this daughter who is most dangerous? the other, my God, if she lives, we will get it, and if we have it, we will make it happy; that is Kinderey, but the one revealed as a millionaire and solo orphan - "
The work-shy Gabriel also wants to richly marry his niece Netti - Felsbach's younger daughter - out of self-interest, although she loves Baron Ludwig von Auenheim, whom she considers to be a simple scribe. The fact that Gabriel's son Wilhelm turns down his marriage to Pauline, which he was offered as a test, because he loves someone else (who is actually Pauline), leaves Gabriel even more desperate. For Pauline, however, this is proof of Wilhelm's real love for her and not for her wealth.
Kampl finally resolves the tangled situation by clearing up all the secrets and bringing the true lovers together. Baron von Felsbach recognizes Netti as his daughter and transfers his fortune to her.
- “Now I can't give her half my fortune because she gets all of it, and I can't adopt her because she is my real daughter. (to nice) My dear child! "
Factory history
The plot is based on the feuilleton novel L'Orgueil, La Duchesse ( "Pride. The Duchess") by Eugène Sue from 1848. This novel is part of the cycle Les Septs Péchés capitaux appeared ( "The Seven Deadly Sins"), this part , spread over 60 episodes, in the Paris magazine Le Constitutionnel from November 8, 1847 to February 18, 1848. Despite the French version, the contemporary press confirms Nestroy that he has finally had a real Viennese game with a “sweet girl” - Netti - brought to the stage.
The Marquis von Maillefort, a hunchbacked nobleman of the old sort, witty, satirical, tough on his enemies, but also kind to those he respects, was transformed by Nestroy into the clever and helpful bath doctor Kampl, Herminie, called "La Duchesse", a piano teacher and poor child of love in the modest and loving Netti, the arrogant, arrogant Duchess of Senneterre corresponds to the Sidonia at Nestroy. Her counterpart, the meek, naive and kind hearted Ernestine Beaumesnil becomes Pauline, who is also drawn. The bizarre figure of the clerk Gabriel Brunner was added by the author especially for his colleague Wenzel Scholz .
Originally Nestroy wanted to name his play Two Daughters, Two Balls and for the main character Kampl he initially planned cupping or Schartig (as a professional name), and finally Human-Humanus (as a type name). These ideas about the title and naming point to the author's original plan to again write a work with contrasting symmetry - as with Zu Ebener Erde and First Floor and Das Haus der Temperamente .
The difficult task of translating the intricate plot of the Kolportage novel into a stage play was therefore solved by Nestroy as an independent, complete reworking with the focus on the social contrast between the two girls. In particular, the prehistory, which is broadly detailed in the novel, has been redesigned, not just adapted. In contrast to the social romantic Sue, the satirist Nestroy clearly points to the immutability of human characters for good and bad.
The approval of the censorship office took place on March 26, 1852, but it was announced on June 2 that Nestroy was not correctly adhering to the approved text in his couplet . This complaint, which was submitted too late, had no further consequences, apart from a reprimand by the governor.
In the premiere, Nestroy played Kampl, Wenzel Scholz played the clerk Gabriel Brunner, Alois Grois played his brother Bernhard, Emma Zöllner played Netti.
A handwritten manuscript by Nestroy for the I. and III. Nude, another for the II. Akt and a handwritten couplet text (Kampl, I. Act, 11 th Scene) are in the manuscript collection of the Vienna City Library kept. A copy of the score of both couplets with the wording of the first stanza can be found in the music collection of the Austrian National Library . In 1853 the partially changed text was published by the theater agency of the Adalbert Prix as a print under the title Kampl or the girl with millions and the seamstress .
Contemporary reception
On April 3, 1852, the magazine Der Österreichische Klassen wrote (No. 27, p. 431):
- "The funny situations, well-combined intermezzo's, interwoven with pithy jokes falling in quick succession, make the whole thing into such a peculiar creation that we learn even more to understand the inability of many other buffoons."
The acting performances of Nestroy and Scholz are particularly praised.
The humorist of March 31 (vol. 16, no. 77, p. 314), who was always critical of Nestroy, only allowed the success of the play to apply to the author's previous weaker works:
- “By the way, one has been used to Nestroy's antics for quite some time that well-structured action, the consequence of the characters, the probability of the occurrences, the perfectly flawless moral design of the ideas, etc. Like are not 'conditiones sine qua non'. "
Also on that day, Adolf Bäuerle's Viennese theater newspaper praised the “summit of the Viennese farce in all its originality” , the “riches of poetry” and “gold of disposition” .
During Nestroy's Berlin guest performance with Kampl (from July 20 to August 9, 1852) the Neue Preussische Zeitung wrote on August 2:
- "Kampl is one of the funniest comic images of life that the Hogarth of Viennese humor, as Nestroy is rightly called, has been drawing on the stage wall for years."
Later interpretations
Otto Rommel already described Kampl in 1908 as the “most important piece of the moralistic direction” (quote) of the poet. The contrast between nobles and commoners, only hinted at in Nestroy's source (in Sue), becomes the focal point of the plot for him. This is particularly evident in the transformation of the knightly Marquis von Maillefort into the stealthy, roughly honest country doctor Dr. Kampl.
According to Helmut Ahrens , the figure of the doctor Kampl represents the “aged, mature, less aggressive, perhaps even a little cozy, albeit never sweet Johann Nepomuk Nestroy” (quote). Like the poet himself, Kampl observes the hustle and bustle around him from a distance. In contrast to the sharp and sharp Schnoferl from Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt , the image of Nestroy from earlier times, Kampl has now become a curious, never penetrating helper.
Even Franz H. Mautner notes that in addition Nestroy joke with advancing age, more and more come forth the wise and benevolent poet, not only the sharp-tongued cynic:
- "This» maturity «, the moderate realism and the affectionate description of the milieu of the petty-bourgeois house ball made the contemporary criticism of 'Kampl' appear as the highlight of Nestroy's work."
Modern performances
- 1947 Volkstheater Wien , director: Gustav Manker , set design: Otto Niedermoser , with Karl Skraup (Kampl), Theodor Grieg (Gabriel Brunner), Inge Konradi (Netti), Karl Kalwoda (Bernhard), Egon von Jordan (Hippolyt Schwamm), Emil Stöhr (Wilhelm), Erika Pelikowsky (Pauline), Oskar Wegrostek (Habmann), Walter Kohut (clerk Fackler). Until then, the original version of Nestroy's old work that had never been played, which he had designated to be burned in his will.
- 1978 Burgtheater Vienna , director: Leopold Lindtberg , with Josef Meinrad , Attila Hörbiger , Robert Meyer , Michael Janisch
- 2004 Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna, director: Herbert Föttinger , musical arrangement: Michael Rüggeberg , with Helmuth Lohner , Otto Schenk , Marianne Nentwich
literature
- Otto Rommel: Nestroys Works. Selection in two parts, Golden Classics Library, German publishing house Bong & Co., Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Stuttgart 1908.
- Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Historical-critical complete edition, seventh volume, published by Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1926; Pp. 379-557 (text).
- Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Historical-critical complete edition, eighth volume, published by Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1926; Pp. 446-519 (Notes).
- Franz H. Mautner (Ed.): Johann Nestroys Komödien. Edition in 6 volumes, Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1979, 2nd edition 1981, 6th volume. OCLC 7871586 .
- Helmut Ahrens: I'm not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Johann Nestroy, his life. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0389-0 .
- Hugo Aust (Ed.): Johann Nestroy, pieces 31. In: Jürgen Hein / Johann Hüttner : Johann Nestroy, Complete Works, historical-critical edition. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-224-16930-3 .
Web links
- Table of contents on www.nestroy.at/nestroy-stuecke/73
Individual evidence
- ↑ This means Vienna
- ↑ Kampl , Viennese for comb
- ↑ Not a full-fledged doctor at the time - although Kampl had a doctorate
- ^ Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, pieces 31, p. 16.
- ^ Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, pieces 31, p. 132.
- ↑ Helmut Ahrens: I am not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Pp. 330-332.
- ^ Franz H. Mautner: Johann Nestroys Komedien. P. 305.
- ↑ Playlist of the world premiere as a facsimile in: Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, pieces 31, p. 520.
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall, IN 33.424
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall, IN 33.522
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall, IN 33.425
- ↑ Music collection of the Austrian National Library, MUS HS 25.035
- ↑ Facsimile of the print in: Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, Pieces 31. pp. 424–492.
- ↑ a b c Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, pieces 31. pp. 182-185.
- ↑ conditiones sine qua non = indispensable conditions
- ^ Hugo Aust: Johann Nestroy, pieces 31, p. 190.
- ^ Otto Rommel: Nestroys works. Part 1, pp. LXXV-LXXVII.
- ↑ Helmut Ahrens: I am not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Pp. 330-332.
- ^ Franz H. Mauthner: Johann Nestroys Komödien. Volume 6, p. 305.