Müller, coal burner and chair carrier
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| Title: | Müller, coal burner and chair carrier |
| Original title: | Müller, coal burners and chair carriers or the dreams of shell and core |
| Genus: | Magic game in 3 lifts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Johann Nestroy |
| Music: | Adolf Müller senior |
| Publishing year: | 1834 |
| Premiere: | April 24, 1834 |
| Place of premiere: | Theater an der Wien |
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Müller, Kohlenbrenner and armchair carriers or The dreams of shell and core is a magic game in 3 acts by Johann Nestroy . It was premiered on April 24, 1834 as a "benefit performance" for the author.
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Although their fiancés are lovable and not poor, the three friends white, black and red have very different wishes for their lives:
- "Wealth, romantic love and artist fame !" ( First Act, Scene 13)
The gnome prince Rübezahl puts them to sleep to show them the golden shell and the bitter core of their dreams. In the first dream, they are trading partners who become millionaires through a sudden inheritance. A year later, Roth is plagued by constant fear that his fortune might be stolen from him, White is terribly bored because all his wishes have been fulfilled, and Black is bitter because, despite his wealth, the girls are not interested in him.
- White: “I am an unhappy person! no pleasure, no entertainment! - such a life is not 'worth s Athemschöpfen ". (I -art Act, 31 st Scene)
All three of them commit suicide, depressed.
The second dream shows the three as good sons who, after 12 years of training, return to their father, who has already arranged for them the engagements with the three daughters of his friend. Abelard (white), Sigwart (black) and Herfort (Roth) are in love with three other girls and assert that they are allowed to marry them. After five years of marriage, the three girls have become contentious and unfaithful wives. The notary has been ordered to divorce, but before that the women flee with their lovers and take the entire property with them. The now destitute men end up in debt arrest.
- Choir of bailiffs and creditors :
- "If you can't pay, we hold onto it,
- My Lord, since uses nothing, only arrest! " (II ter Act, 21 st Scene)
The third dream shows the friends as the poet Swan (White), singer Nero (Black) and Kapellmeister Steinröthel (Roth) at the height of their fame, they are celebrated and richly rewarded. Many years later they are impoverished and forgotten that they can no longer pay their landlord Proczpack the rent and are slowly starving to death. As spirits of the dead, they have to watch as art enthusiasts now buy up their artistic estate for a lot of money.
- Steinröthel "I war's Gallfieber be so dead!" (III ter Act, 19 st Scene)
Gertrud, Margreth and Sandl were looking for the three dreamers in vain when they suddenly reappear. Rübezahl assures the women that the three are now cured of their crushes, which the friends are happy to confirm:
- "A tram is a tram, but there are all kinds of trams
- My mother said that, and my wife Mahm [...] " (III ter Act, final song)
Factory history
A specific model for the work cannot be determined, even if dream pieces were part of the standing repertoire of the theater writers of that time. With the stereotypical three-way division (three main characters, three wishes shown in three dreams, three brides, three wives), Nestroy and director Carl Carl obviously tried to cling to the success of the Lumpacivagabundus . This should also create three powerful roles for Nestroy, Carl and Wenzel Scholz .
A longer history, from 1833 to 1834, must be assumed. A change in the first dream - originally Nestroy planned a parody of hero's fame with the three men as Amazons - was prevented by the theater censorship and had to be rewritten on the subject of wealth, as well as the unmotivated positive ending of the play. For the Amazon scenes, Nestroy wanted to use parts of his posse Genius, Schuster and Marqueur , which were not listed .
Despite the diarrhea of his last play The Magician Sulfurelectrimagneticophosphoratus , Nestroy wrote a new magic game. The flat dialogues could not convince the audience, which had made for a full house on the premiere evening. The tenor that ultimately all apparent happiness is turned into a negative and the situations that do not fit into the Biedermeier worldview, such as love affair, adultery and suicide, disturbed the viewers and angered the critics. The censorship found 97 objections in the text, partly because it was suspected of being lascivious, partly because the censor found it too crude. That is why the piece, which was in itself rather weak, was severely cut for the performance.
Johann Nestroy played Roth / Herfort / Steinröthel, Carl Carl the Weiß / Abelard / Schwan, Wenzel Scholz the Schwarz / Sigwart / Nero, Nestroy's partner Marie Weiler the housemaid Nanett, Eleonore Condorussi the Heloise, Friedrich Hopp the farmer Martin and Johann Proczpack .
An original Nestroy manuscript has been preserved. The three different types of paper in this manuscript (yellowed and roughly trimmed; bluish and carefully trimmed; thinner with watermarks) suggest that the text was created in stages. That the original version of the hero's glory dream was included can be assumed from a suitable gap in the sheet count. The cover sheet and list of persons are also missing, which means that a possibly different original title can no longer be determined (according to the score and prompting booklet it was dreams ).
The original score of Adolf Müller originally bears the title Dreams , Mended on Müller, Coal Burners and Armchairs, or: The Dreams of Shell and Core. Magic game in 3 acts by J. Nestroy, music by Adolf Müller, Capellmstr. 1834. The first time listed the four teb April 834im kkp Theater an der Wien for Vorth. of Mr. Nestroy. Op. 56.
Contemporary reception
The play was not received very favorably by the audience or by the reviewers and therefore only saw a few performances. To make matters worse, the stage machinery had apparently failed at the premiere. Only three magazines dealt with the work.
The halfway friendliest criticism was found in Adolf Bäuerle's Wiener Theaterzeitung of April 7, 1834 (p. 227), written by the playwright Franz Carl Weidmann :
- “There was not a lack of individual good thoughts and funny appearances, but on the whole the processing cannot be called happy. The mood of the audience was initially very favorable. […] But already at the end of the first section there was a cold. In the second, the displeasure was even more vivid. […] Mr. Nestroy himself, played along, under such self-conscious circumstances, a creditable attitude. "
Scholz and Carl were also praised for their performance.
In the April 6th Wanderer it was pointed out that the "educated" audience had particularly rejected the play, only the gallery - that is, the cheap places for the "common people" - applauded:
- “We noticed neither shell nor core at this farce, only stupidity in the true sense of the word, and boring, hackneyed Postbüchl jokes. […] The audience loudly revealed his disapproving voice. The top gallery called Mr. Nestroy. - The house was incredibly full. "
The collector's judgment on April 15, when the hostile Franz Wiest used almost the same wording, was amazingly consistent - whether he wrote both reviews himself or copied them from the Wanderer can no longer be clarified:
- "[...] in which we neither perceive the shell nor the core [...] as if one had plundered the centenary calendar - or the mail book of Anno 97 about the jokes (?) [...] The scene with Nero (Mr. Scholz) can for the galleries are called effective [...] The house was crowded. "
In both reviews, Marie Weiler's mediocre vocal performance was pointed out, which the critic partly excused with the weak couplet texts.
Later interpretations
Otto Rommel places this piece in the category of those magic pieces "in which spirits guide and help intervene in people's lives, so that the ghost scenes only form a framework for the scenes from real life" (quote). This also includes The Fairy Ball , The Evil Spirit Lumpacivagabundus, The Magic Journey into the Age of Knights , The Equality of the Years and The Families Zwirn, Knieriem and Leim . As in the magic journey , miller, coal burner and chair carrier is a fight against enthusiasm and excessiveness, in this case against three of them at the same time. An explanation of why the three simple people, besides wealth and love, also cherish such an unusual wish as artist fame, leaves Nestroy unanswered. This and the ruthless realism of the final scene of the third dream with the starving artists displeased the contemporary audience. Nestroy had brought quite real incidents to the stage, such as those his contemporaries Emanuel Schikaneder , Joachim Perinet , Therese Krones , Karl Meisl and the aforementioned Josef Alois Gleich, who ultimately died in misery despite high fame. Unlike usual, Rübezahl appears immediately in the middle of the characters without foreplay in the magic world in order to make his short explanations at the beginning, between the dream scenes and at the end. This improvement and dream piece can be compared in terms of content with Josef Alois Gleich's work The Mountain Spirit or The Three Wishes (performed in 1819).
At Brukner / Rommel, the strong censorship lines are checked piece by piece, whereby it is established that in some cases the reason is not apparent. However, since the censors did not have clearly given instructions, they would have tried to work more rigidly in order to be able to remove any offensive areas beforehand. The censors “had to see to it that from each book only the worldview that was pleasing to the government was presented to the reader. It was always safer for them to be too strict than too indulgent ” (quote).
literature
- Helmut Ahrens : I'm not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Johann Nestroy, his life. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7973-0389-0 .
- Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Historical-critical complete edition, second volume, Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1924.
- Otto Rommel: Nestroys Works. Selection in two parts, Golden Classics Library. German publishing house Bong & Co., Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Stuttgart 1908.
- Friedrich Walla : Johann Nestroy. Historically critical edition. Pieces 7 / II. In: Jürgen Hein , Johann Hüttner : Johann Nestroy. Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7141-6903-2 , pp. 43–130, 295–372.
Web links
- List of persons and detailed table of contents at nestroy.at/nestroy-stuecke/22 (accessed on June 4, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nestroy always writes Act in the text
- ↑ Chair carrier = litter carrier , these wore red livery at that time
- ↑ means Vienna
- ↑ baculus = Latin. floor
- ↑ Nero = Italian black
- ↑ proč pak = Czech. For what
- ↑ Wax spuster = wax modeler
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 63.
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 80.
- ↑ the three names are allusions to Pierre Abelard and two famous characters from the novel
- ↑ in debt arrest (lifted in Austria in 1868) the creditor had to pay for the debtor's maintenance
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 106.
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 124.
- ↑ Tram = Viennese for dream
- ↑ Mahm = Viennese for aunt , meant here as Aunt
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 126.
- ↑ Helmut Ahrens: I am not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Pp. 144-147.
- ↑ Facsimile of the theater slip in Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. P. 382.
- ↑ Manuscript collection in the Vienna Library in the City Hall , call number IN 18.874
- ↑ Music collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall, call number MH 684
- ^ Friedrich Walla: Johann Nestroy. Pieces 7 / II. Pp. 302-307.
- ^ Otto Rommel: Nestroys works. Pp. XXVI-XXXII.
- ^ Fritz Brukner, Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Pp. 718-720.