Katzelmacher (drama)
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| Title: | Katzelmacher |
| Genus: | drama |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Publishing year: | 1968 |
| Premiere: | April 7, 1968 |
| Place of premiere: | Action Theater, Munich |
| Place and time of the action: | Village near Munich at Easter, present |
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Katzelmacher is the first independent stage piece by the German director, author and actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1968. The premiere in the Munich Action Theater was directed by the author Fassbinder and the composer Peer Raben . A year later, Fassbinder made his artistic breakthrough with the film version of the same name .
action
In a suburb of Munich everything is going on as usual. Bruno works for Elisabeth in a company that makes surprise bags . He's tired of being commanded by her, but lets her take it. Franz pays Ingrid for love services, but she dreams of a career as a pop singer. Marie goes with Erich. Paul is with Helga, and Gunda is teased because she doesn't get one. Boredom and frustration determine everyday life for young people.
When Elisabeth hires the inexpensive Greek guest worker Jorgos alongside Bruno in her company, he soon becomes the victim of general annoyance about his own life situation. The women hope for a love affair, the men see the Greeks as unpleasant competition. Since he was originally taken for an Italian, the corresponding swear word Katzelmacher sticks to him.
Jorgos' roommate Bruno accuses Elisabeth of having had something with him. Gunda, who is rejected by him, says that Jorgos tried to rape her. The tender relationship that develops between Marie and him brings the barrel to overflow: Marie's former lover Erich and Paul form a gang of ten to get rid of the outsider. The plans range from castration to murder. Jorgos is beaten up but only slightly injured.
Despite the harassment, he and Marie forge plans to go to Greece together. When Marie asks him about his wife and two children, however, he is embarrassed. Finally he reacts to Elisabeth's announcement that he will be hiring a Turk next to him by moving to another city.
To the work
The title refers to the swear word Katzelmacher , which is mainly used in Austria , but also in Switzerland and Bavaria . It was used to denote disparaging southern European musicians , traveling traders and, in the 1960s, also guest workers .
Shortly before, Fassbinder had successfully performed the folk play Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer under the title For example Ingolstadt in his action theater . With Katzelmacher , Fassbinder used the dialect diction of Fleißer as a language and dedicated his play to it.
Katzelmacher , written for an extremely narrow basement theater, does without any modifications or changes of scene. The more the dynamic process of confrontations is accentuated.
Awards
In 1969 Fassbinder received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize for his piece .
Current performances
- Stadttheater Bern - drama (director: Claudia Meyer), season 2016/17; Criticism in Der Bund from October 30, 2016.
- Deutsches Theater - Kammerspiele (Director: Jessica Glause), Berlin 2017.
- Münchner Volkstheater - Large Stage (Director: Abdullah Kenan Karaca ), Munich 2016.
- Landestheater Schwaben - Großes Haus des Stadttheater (Director: Peter Kesten), Memmingen , 2013.
- Bad Wörishofener Theatertage (Director: Peter Kesten) - Kurhaus, Bad Wörishofen ( Fassbinder's birthplace), 10. – 13. May 2013.
- Staatstheater Mainz - Studiobühne (Director: Hakan Savaş Mican ), Mainz , 2012/2013.
filming
In 1969 the film Katzelmacher was made with Fassbinder as director, screenwriter and leading actor. The actors of the antiteater , also founded in 1969, play on the initiative of Fassbinder and Peer Raben after the collapse of action theater .
Opera version
Kurt Schwertsik 's opera of the same name was premiered on June 1, 2003 in Wuppertal .
literature
- Katzelmacher / Preparadise sorry now , theater library, publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main, 6th edition 1992 ISBN 3-88661-065-9
- Katzelmacher / Preparadise sorry now , afterword by Dieter Krebs, Henschelverlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-362-00326-5
- Katzelmacher in: Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Complete pieces. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 3886611213
- Hans-Jürgen Greif : On modern drama . Bouvier, Bonn 1973, p. 56ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ That's when I learned to direct . Rainer Werner Fassbinder in conversation with Corinna Brocher. In: Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The anarchy of fantasy . Edited by Michael Töteberg. Fischer Frankfurt am Main 1986, p. 23
- ^ Rainer Werner Fassbinder: poet, actor, filmmaker - retrospective May 28 - July 19, 1992. Argon Verlag, Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-87024-212-4 .
- ↑ Program information on Katzelmacher on DeutschesTheater.de , accessed on December 23, 2016
- ^ What a 50-year-old Fassbinder play says about xenophobia , Christiane Lutz, Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 12, 2016, accessed on December 23, 2016
- ↑ Katzelmacher on Landestheater-Schwaben.de , accessed on January 31, 2013
- ↑ Press release on Katzelmacher ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on FassbinderFoundation.de , accessed on January 31, 2013
- ^ Katzelmacher on Staatstheater-Mainz.com , accessed on January 31, 2013
