Dear god make me blind
Dear God make me blind is Wilhelm Genazino's first play . It was premiered on October 8, 2005 under the direction of Henri Hohenemser in the Darmstadt State Theater . A year earlier the two was nude he with the "author award of Heidelberger Stückemarkt been awarded." The Frankfurt Authors' Theater has the piece in its repertoire.
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One day it has to be over, say the 61-year-old working Robert and his 30-year-old daughter-in-law Teresa. Both allude to their marital duties. Robert has even been illegitimate. Martha, Robert's 60-year-old wife, describes this tiresome subject briefly but concisely when she insists Teresa: “Andreas said you wouldn't let him do it anymore.” Andreas is Teresa's 33-year-old husband and the son of the older couple. Teresa expresses her need even more clearly. Although it lacks nothing, but they suffer from " Fuck forced".
The young couple's differences could not have remained hidden from Martha, because she gave the daughter-in-law a large sum of money to buy more attractive outerwear. The mother-in-law fears the son might run away from the unsightly young woman. After all, all parental efforts are of no avail. At the end of the piece, Teresa walks with two suitcases packed to an asthmatic who sometimes has a seizure while sleeping. Before Teresa leaves, Robert wants to know exactly the reason for the marital falling out in private. The young disappointed wife owes no answer. During and after the sexual act, Andreas gave school grades for Teresa's attitude during the actions.
Robert is a more complicated case than the determined daughter-in-law. He wants Teresa to stay. You misunderstand him. He does not want sexual intercourse with her, but Teresa should form a faction together with Robert, which Martha and Iris throw at the head of the motto of the play: Once there has to be an end.
Unfortunately, Teresa cannot hear. She doesn't believe her father-in-law. Iris is the 55 year old friend of Martha and Robert. More precisely, she was Robert's lover when she was younger. Martha, laughing, tolerated the liaison. Robert is undecided. On the one hand, he wants to break up with Iris because he hardly feels any desire as he is getting older. But because an ending is out of the question for the former lover, he suggests perversions in the bathroom as a way out. Nothing will come of it. Iris is clumsy. Martha also comes in through the door.
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Under the crude surface there is at least one ambiguous level of meaning. For example, Robert supposedly wants to have some peace and quiet after entering the apartment - exhausted from work. So, wife Martha has to run away at the conscious time every working day. Understandable, thinks the more experienced viewer, Robert wants some rest. So far so good. The course of action allows a second interpretation. Martha has to vacate the apartment in the afternoon regardless of the weather so that Robert can approach Iris in a perverse way and Teresa in a groping way - admittedly in both cases without success.
In the play, the audience gets their money's worth in some ways. For example, the funny triangle Martha - Robert - Iris is funny to look at. In addition, Wilhelm Genazino pulls all sorts of slapstick: Robert gives the electrical voltage in amperes .
literature
- Used edition
- Wilhelm Genazino: Dear God make me blind. The house clerk. Two plays in Edition Akzente (edited by Michael Krüger ). Carl Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20722-8
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- ↑ After Martha " fuck " (used edition, page 42, 12 ZVO) for "coitus" has spoken, the majority of participants adopted once and for all of the displayed for centuries on German stages high-level language. Wilhelm Genazino then uses the bad word for Robert (edition used, p. 72, 1st issue), Iris (edition used, p. 63, 2nd issue) and Teresa (issue used, p. 69, 9. Zvo and p. 72, 7th Zvu) in the mouth. So, all characters - except for Andreas - are allowed to speak uncultivated. Teresa, in particular, may appear ordinarily directly. For example, she says “Pugs” (edition used, p. 72, 14. Zvo) for “breasts”.