Miniatures
Miniatures is the title of a collection of three one-act plays ( Die Rache , Herbst and Die Kommode ) from the final phase of Curt Goetz's work , which he wrote under the impression of a serious illness. It premiered on May 12, 1958 in the Akademietheater, Vienna , under the title Alte Möbel , the German premiere under the name Miniatures on November 17 of the same year as part of a gala performance for Curt Goetz's 70th birthday in the Renaissance Theater , Berlin .
Two of the three one-act plays are original fabrics by Curt Goetz, namely Die Rache und Herbst , the third Die Kommode is a free adaptation of a template by Guy de Maupassant .
Book edition
The three short theater pieces were also published as a book by Herbig in 1958 under the name Miniatures . You are - so you can read there - Dr. Dedicated to Herman Werder, without whose “surgical art” they “would not have come about” according to the author. “May literature forgive him,” Goetz adds to the dedication with his own understatement .
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The revenge
A man seeks out the prosecutor who put him in prison, but who was also the husband of his lover, who killed herself after the relationship was discovered, in order to avenge the suicide for which he blames the husband. After a verbal battle, the end of which should actually be the killing of the person opposite, the man has to realize that the husband, who loved his wife above all else, was completely innocent of the suicide and that his deceased lover was a nymphomaniac .
autumn
Cyprienne and her daughter Florence are on a spa stay. At the height of the forest near the health resort, Cyprienne meets Count Dingelstädt, who sits down next to her and talks to her about his only true love, which he lost many years ago. Dingelstädt's interlocutor gradually realizes that she is talking about herself, but does not reveal herself - she has become old and blind.
The biography of Count Dingelstedt's figure bears obvious parallels to the life story of the theater man Freiherr Franz von Dingelstedt .
The dresser
A kinship dispute over the apparently deceased grandmother's chest of drawers turns out to be idle after it becomes clear that the grandmother is still alive, but it does lead to important things.
Record release
| Curt Goetz and Valerie von Martens in "Miniatures" | |
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| Studio album by Heiter & reflective. From literature | |
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Publication |
1959 |
| Label (s) | Electrola |
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LP |
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Title (number) |
2 |
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In the talking plate series Heiter & reflective. From the literature of the record company Electrola, the ninth episode of the album Curt Goetz and Valerie von Martens appeared in 1959 in "Miniatures" , which combines record versions of both Goetz's original pieces from miniatures . Curt Goetz himself acted as speaker for the roles of Dr. von Alten and Graf Dingelstädt , whom he also embodied in the theater. The theater critic Friedrich Luft wrote the cover text for the album . "A small high school of comedy dialectics" is what he calls the first piece, the second he characterizes as an imaginative short comedy "unexpectedly garnished with a little tragedy".
The color photo on the front page shows the author and his wife Valerie in “Herbst”.
page 1
The revenge
Dr. von Alten - Curt Goetz
Mrs. Krause - Valerie von Martens
The visitor - Klaus Kammer
Place of action: The law office of Dr. from old people
Page 2
autumn
Cyprienne - Valerie of Martens
Florence, her daughter - Herta Staal
Count Dingelstädt - Curt Goetz
Speaker - Klaus Miedel
Place of the action: A bench on the forest level of a health resort
In trade
The one-act plays by Curt Goetz belonging to the miniatures are now available individually from the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house .