Kasperl as a portrait painter
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| Title: | Kasperl as a portrait painter |
| Genus: | Punch and Judy |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Franz Count of Pocci |
| Publishing year: | 1859 |
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Kasperl as a portrait painter is a play written by Franz von Pocci from 1859 .
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Kasperl works for the portrait painter Smear Brush as a paint pen . When his supervisor goes to the awards ceremony at an artist competition, a woman walks in. Kasperl dresses up and pretends to be the painter. In the course of a discussion full of misunderstandings and silliness on the part of Kasperl, after asking for his money in advance, he paints a horrific donkey's head on the canvas, which he hits the customer over the head and chases her out. Shortly afterwards, Schmierpinsel returns, angry about not having won, when the stuttering Police Superintendent Karrnpichler arrives because the woman has reported the alleged painter. Smearbrush suspects that Kasperl is behind it and asks him. Kasperl is completely innocent, but is sent to the police. After giving Karrnpichler lots of nonsensical answers when recording the personal details, he is asked to show what happened. Without further ado, Kasperl paints the policeman's face with a brush and chases him away. Kasperl now decides to become a painter.
useful information
The piece is very similar to an earlier work by Pocci, Kasperl as Professor . In both of them, Kasperl disguises himself as his supervisor in his absence in order to deceive a visitor and get his money by beating him up. His victim runs to the police, which then gets to the real superior who has returned. However, a difference between the two pieces is that in “Punch as a portrait painter” the policeman finally meets the real Punch and interrogates him, but is chased away by him, while in “Punch as a Professor” the real professor is actually arrested. In both cases, however, Kasperl's deceptions go unpunished, since in this play he drives away the policeman and in the other one he is not suspected at all.