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Korbes is a drama by Tankred Dorst , which premiered on June 4, 1988 under the direction of Wilfried Minks in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg with Sepp Bierbichler in the title role.

Tankred Dorst probably borrowed the title from " Herr Korbes ". The author had initially chosen the working title "Darkness". The Brothers Grimm close their fairy tale from the 6th edition with the sentence: "Mr. Korbes must have been a really bad man." The motif of blindness is also laid out in this fairy tale.

time and place

Korbes and other characters speak an Upper Franconian that it has a style. The action takes place in Zeckendorf, east of Bamberg . This is the area north of Nuremberg . In the present piece you refer to " Rende " and watch " Delevischn ".

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Korbes' wife has died. Elfriede, called the Betzn, comes into the house and just sits down with the widower in the vacated space at the dining table. After the meal, the landlord orders the Betzn. The woman with the heavy body has to look for a fresh shirt from the closet after the showered basket. Meanwhile - the dead woman is not yet in the coffin, but in her bed - Korbes jumps the newly appointed housewife from behind. The Betzn put up with it with an "Oh!"

When the dead woman is underground, Korbes believes he is finally rid of her. But she appears in the house and watches him and Elfriede. Korbes can only endure the phenomenon when he is drunk. The host continues to command the Betzn. The woman doesn't want to obey. Korbes' daughter Hannelore and her husband, the silent bleacher, check on the father to see if everything is right. The father only has gross insults ready for the children.

Korbes becomes incurably blind overnight. Having become helpless, he is always angry at home. To the blind person it is as if the objects had attacked him.

The Betzn can no longer do anything with a blind man. Korbes sells his television set. Since Korbes does not want to hear the word marriage, Elfriede clears the blind man's house with her son Armin except for one chair and searches for the distance.

Hannelore, called by Korbes, finds father and house dirty. Your subsequent sacrifice is ignored. Despite all this, Hannelore holds out. When the bleacher tries to fetch her home, the young woman continues to hold out, although her father has knocked her to the ground with her fist. The bleacher cannot understand his wife. After all, she had already run away from her father's blows when she was 16. When Korbes wants to punish the daughter again - this time with a white cane - she takes revenge. Korbes, sitting in the shady courtyard, awaits the warming rays of the sun. Hannelore pulls the chair together with father again and again in the direction of the remaining court shadow.

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New Testament

The piece also has a religious dimension. Tankred Dorst speaks of a " St. Matthew Passion " and adds: "A completely dark story, without light, without hope". In addition, he prescribes Handel's “ Brockes Passion ” and Handel's psalm “Nisi dominus” as acting music . Biblical figures walk through some of the 31 images in the piece - unnoticed by Korbes and the other figures from our present day. For example, the "believing soul" in picture 1 sings about the death of Korbes' wife: "She ran out of soul that she had to die." Or as Korbes in picture 8 - "The Darkness" - awakes blinded in the morning, sing the Evangelist, the daughter of Zion , Jesus , Peter , John , James and The Unbelievers. And in the 16th picture, the believing soul appears singing a sentence and a half, solo: “Cum dederit dilectis suis somnium. Ecce haereditas - “.

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Sometimes exaggerated northern Bavarian dialect can cause displeasure in some viewers and sometimes makes it difficult to understand the spoken sentences.

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  1. ↑ Bekes has two images of the 1988 Hamburg production on pages 74 and 75.
  2. ↑ The "believing soul" is a figure from the Brockes Passion.
  3. ↑ Daughter of Zion: Presumably Mary is meant.
  4. ↑ This is a passage from the Nisi dominus ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.recmusic.org

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erken bei Arnold, p. 87, left column, 4th entry and also Bekes, caption p. 74
  2. ↑ Georg Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 438, 20. Zvo
  3. ↑ Bekes, p. 76, 5th Zvu
  4. ↑ Tankred Dorst, quoted by Hensel in the afterword of the edition used, p. 438, 18. Zvo
  5. ↑ HWV 238
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 260, 1. Zvu
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 261, 16. Zvu
  8. ↑ Bekes, p. 75 below
  9. ↑ Bekes, pp. 76-77
  10. ↑ see also Eisenhans (film)