Magical express car journey through the comedy world

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Title: Magical express car journey through the comedy world
Original title: Magical express car journey through the world of comedies or the scene ragout in the theatrical preserving sauce or the musical-dramatic trade market [...] together with an associated prelude, under the title: fear of conscience, revenge, forgiveness and quodlibet
Genus: Tragic-comic show painting in 2 acts
Original language: German
Author: Johann Nestroy
Publishing year: 1830
Premiere: March 13, 1830
Place of premiere: Pressburg
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of foreplay:

  • Mute , a splendid director and director in his imagination
  • Redhaus , also a director, also a good soul man
  • Fat , lamp-lighter, an informer of dark character
  • Strobelkopf , a scoundrel of theater servants

of the quodlibet:

  • (a total of 57 roles listed by name)
  • In addition, many and innumerable knights, various farmers, unpredictable rows of children, etc.

Magical express car journey through the world of comedies or the scene ragout in theatrical preserving sauce or the musical-dramatic tandelmarket. Tragic-comic in the Chinese style, placed without shadow and light, with avoidance of everything never seen before, arranged for the stage in 2 lifts, together with an associated prelude, under the title: Conscience Anxiety, Vengeance, Forgiveness and Quodlibet is a Quodlibet with prelude , compiled by Johann Nestroy . It was performed on March 13, 1830 in Pressburg and on September 7 in the Ständisches Schauspielhaus Graz as a benefit evening for the author.

Closely related to this work is the humorous express car journey through the theater world (1832).

For more of Nestroy's quodlibets and general comments on this genre, see the article The dramatic Quodlibets by Johann Nestroy .

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The text of the prelude is lost.

Remaining fragment of the Quodlibet (second act):

“And the Schusterwenzl / his fat Zenzl
Well, which is it certainly long in Mag'n. " (2 ter  Act, 1 st Scene)
“Well then, you quiet house
I'm going to throw else's me out. " (2 ter  Act, 9 th Scene)
  • fourth act from Faust. A tragedy in five acts by Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann ( performed for the first time in Vienna on March 14, 1816 in the Theater an der Wien and performed 70 times by 1852); the scene was shortened a bit, but played seriously without attempting a parody or travesty : Faust's blind father Diether and his wife Käthe, his family Wagner and himself appear in this scene in which the pregnant Käthe is poisoned by Faust. The subsequent fifth scene of the tragedy in the cemetery is not included in the fragment, but it is likely that it was also brought from the list of roles.

The Graz and Pressburg stages

Director Johann August Stöger (1791–1861) was in charge of both the municipal theater in Graz and the Pressburg theater. When Nestroy applied to him after he had been expelled by the police in Brno on April 30, 1826 for extemporating , he got a job for Graz. Nestroy made his debut there on May 23, 1826 as Figaro in the Barber of Seville . Other roles in major operas were popular with audiences, and he also embodied serious speaking roles, such as Walter Fürst in Wilhelm Tell , Lionel in The Maiden of Orleans , Sir Paulet in Maria Stuart , the ghost in Hamlet and others. Here he often played in pieces by Ferdinand Raimund and Franz Grillparzer. In Graz he changed from an opera singer to a "serious" actor and finally to a comedian and poser. From 1828 he switched back and forth between the stages in Graz and Preßburg and in March 1831 he canceled his contract with director Stöger. During his time in Graz, the adultery of his wife Wilhelmine Nespiesni took place in 1827 and in 1828 he began to live with Marie Weiler . After an interlude in Lviv , he finally ended up in Vienna with director Carl Carl.

Factory history

The magical express car journey through the comedy world was one of the early dramatic works of the young Nestroy, who was engaged at the joint Graz-Pressburg theaters at the time. The content of the two performances at these locations was apparently identical, as can be seen from the few preserved theater slips and text fragments. The wording on the theater bill, compiled by Johann Nestroy, leaves open whether it refers to the entire Quodlibet or just the prelude. In Nestroy's own repertoire on p. 55, however, the piece is clearly listed as Quodlibet in two acts by J. Nestroy .

Regarding his appearance in Lemberg on May 9th, 1831, shortly before his return to Vienna, the Wiener Theaterzeitung by Adolf Bäuerle reported on June 9th of this year:

“His second debut was in the Quodlibet he put together, 'the magical express car journey through the world of comedy'. He appeared as a cardboard carrier , as a rod (lord), as a spindle leg, as a smear amperl, as an ash man and as pumice. Mr. Nestroy received the most undivided Byfall and was called three times. "

In the Graz production Nestroy played the theater servant Strobelkopf in the prelude and in Quodlibet the mute boy Victorin, the physicist (doctor) Staberl, Lord Staberl, the Luftgestalt Spindelbein and the vagabond Bims.

The text of the prelude is lost, there is a handwritten fragment of the manuscript of Nestroy from the Quodlibet, which was only found again in 1998 in the Austrian Theater Museum (inventory number 236.413).

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 in fifteen volumes. ninth volume, Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1927, pp. 436–500.
  • Jürgen Hein / W. Edgar Yates : Johann Nestroy; Pieces 2. In: Jürgen Hein / Johann Hüttner / Walter Obermaier / W. Edgar Yates: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works, Historical-Critical Edition. Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-216-30343-8 , pp. 453-512.
  • Otto Rommel: Nestroys Works. Selection in two parts, Golden Classics Library, German publishing house Bong & Co., Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Stuttgart 1908.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strobelkopf = tousled head, someone with disheveled hair
  2. ↑ Zenzl , also Zenzi = Upper German short form of Kreszentia [1]
  3. ^ Hein / Yates: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 2. p. 465.
  4. ^ Hein / Yates: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 2. p. 471.
  5. ^ Brukner / Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. P. 488.
  6. ↑ Helmut Ahrens: I am not auctioning myself off to the laurel. Pp. 56-86, 396.
  7. ^ Brukner, Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Pp. 436-438.
  8. ^ Vienna library in the town hall , call number IN 135.822
  9. ^ Hein / Yates: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 2. p. 456.
  10. ^ Text in Hein / Yates: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 2. pp. 463-477.