Guide (acting)
Guide is the only play by the German artist Max Ernst .
Created in 1964, 34 years after Ernst appeared as the robber captain in the film The Golden Age , it presents itself as a surrealistic and at the same time Dadaistic linguistic collage of around 20 typewriter pages. It appeared in 1965 in the publication Histoire naturelle , which was published by the Cologne gallery Der Spiegel in an edition of only 700 copies.
Although the piece is composed of several voices - the characters appearing include a naturalist, the bird obre Hornebom, Paul Éluard and the monk von Heisterbach - but there is no recognizable dramatic plot. Max Ernst puts natural and art-philosophical considerations side by side in the guideline predominantly associatively, again and again in ironic refraction, as for example in the stage direction: “The monk von Heisterbach dies, but since there is still a lot to crunch for him, he continues to crunch. And if he has not yet died, he is still crunching in Hebrew, Greek and Germanic today. "
The Kleine Theater Brühl performed the play as a radio play in 2000 on the occasion of the award of the Max Ernst Scholarship .
literature
- Max Ernst: Histoire naturelle. Cologne: Gallery Der Spiegel (1965)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle - Kleines Theater Brühl , accessed on November 30, 2009