Karlos

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Karlos is a drama by Tankred Dorst , which premiered on May 6, 1990 under the direction of Dieter Dorn in the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Karlos (portrayed by Coello around 1558)

Spain from July 8th, 1560 to July 24th, 1568: The Infante Karlos loses the fight against the hated father King Felipe and dies.

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On the occasion of the hunchbacked Infante's 15th birthday, Felipe, ruler of a “world kingdom”, called the Council of State, the Grand Inquisitor and Alba . On a trial basis, the gentlemen should obey the orders of the heir to the throne - for this session only. The king wants to raise the son and prepare him for his office. Karlos mocks the venerable gentlemen and orders the savage to be released. The savage was brought from America and hangs down from the ceiling, hand and foot shackled. The council is reluctant to comply with the order.

A whore, Bald Anna, tells Karlos about his life. The mother died giving birth. Karlos' stepmother, Queen of Scotland , has also passed away. The future of the Infante seems secure. As soon as he has proven his fertility before the whole world - meaning all European ambassadors at court - he is to marry the 13-year-old Princess Ysabel von Valois , daughter of Catherine de Medici .

Karlos is picked up from the pavement - apparently dead - in front of the whore's house, severely injured. The faith healer Fray Diego, a half-decayed hermit, brings the Infante back to life.

Karlos is disappointed. His father marries away the desirable nanny Ysabel.

The king is sad. Karlos apparently has sexual intercourse with his wife Ysabel and also conspires with the Dutch envoy Egmont . The Grand Inquisitor knows what to do. A spy disguised as Ysabel is supposed to investigate the overturn plans.

Juan d'Austria , a friend of the Infante, defeated the Turks at Lepanto at the head of the fleet of the Holy League . Karlos has a homoerotic tendency towards the winner of Lepanto. But the Grand Inquisitor sends a fake Austria to his bed. Karlos kills the doppelganger. The Grand Inquisitor, not lazy, sends the Infante a false Ysabel.

“I am the god of my decisions!” Karlos calls out to Egmont during a subversive meeting in private. The pragmatic Dutchman wants to bring the Infante down to earth with the political facts of the day. Vain.

Karlos opens the savage's cage. The American is supposed to blow up the Escorial . The company fails. The king arrests the son. Karlos is locked in his room. The infante succeeds in a strange suicide. Karlos kills himself with an overdose of hare pie and ice water.

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When Hensel addresses the “unreal images” in the play - “bulging with plot” - the following “theater feed” could be meant, among other things.

Karlos bites off Egmont's finger. And the half-decayed Saint appears. The general condition of the speaking corpse is really bad - (Fig. 17, "Fire sail"). After all, Bald Anna is pregnant. Obstetrician Ysabel is making no headway. The new being, who of all things chose the maternal neck as the birth canal, looks like a toad. Tankred Dorst also has a number of pretty ideas. For example, when Karlos is no longer to follow the conversation between statesmen, the king has a scarf thrown over his head. But the next cold shower immediately pelts down on the severely tested viewer. The king lies plaintively over the carcass of his favorite horse. Karlos slaughtered the mount - in meat style. At some linguistic productions the viewer is taken aback. When Karlos killed the fake Austria, he separated the head from the body of the corpse and mocked: “Show me your tail , head! I watch you how it swells. ”And Karlos strives for a new language: Instead of words, there should be deeds.

With all the strange things mentioned above, the Catholic Karlos also tells the Protestant Egmont greater truths: God is unjust. Justice is a Protestant invention.

Anachronisms should not be missing. Karlos is surrounded by his father's spies. He is photographed from the foliage of nearby trees. And the " zoo ", in which the American belongs, suggests an anachronism when you first listen to it.

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  1. ↑ It appears that there is a case of poetic freedom. Austria won at Lepanto more than three years after Karlos' death.

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Partly in Spanish

  1. ^ Erken bei Arnold, p. 87, left column, penultimate entry
  2. ^ Spanish Fernando Valdés Salas
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 347, 21. Zvo
  4. ↑ Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 439, 3rd Zvu to p. 442, 14th Zvu
  5. ↑ Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 441, 8th Zvu
  6. ↑ Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 442, 22. Zvo
  7. ↑ Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 442, 20. Zvo
  8. ↑ Edition used, p. 338, 13. Zvu
  9. ↑ Edition used, p. 345, 17th Zvu
  10. ↑ Edition used, p. 349, 8. Zvo
  11. ↑ Edition used, p. 332, 9. Zvu
  12. ↑ Edition used, p. 306, 16. Zvo
  13. ↑ Bekes, p. 76, photo: Oda Sternberg
  14. ↑ Bekes, p. 77, photo: Stefan Odri
  15. ↑ Bekes, p. 78, photo: Kai-Uwe Rosseburg
  16. ↑ see also Eisenhans (film)