To Jerusalem (Tankred Dorst)
After Jerusalem is a drama by Tankred Dorst , which premiered on December 18, 1994 under the direction of Matthias Hartmann in the Malersaal of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg .
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There is more than one renegade in this modern journey to the east . But as with Hesse , first of all, all travelers drop out - or they try to drop out - and secondly, none of them reach their destination. Thirdly, it should not go unmentioned: The goal is the Orient. In the case of Tankred Dorst it goes "to heavenly Jerusalem ". However, the manageable tour company, gradually growing to six participants, does not leave the basement of a hotel high-rise under construction. Voss, called "the snoop" in the list of people, falls outside the category of the bizarre new morning country drivers because he is pretty normal. The snoop foresees that as soon as the hotel is ready, the company will be driven from the basement. In addition, Voss does not want to match the picture of the morning driver: When the criminal case happened (see below), he called the police. It is also Voss who the Jerusalem traveler Rose with the red cap - also called the Rose of Saron - greets first in the cellar. Rose says she once worked for a while as a kitchen helper in a luxury hotel. The woman is just cutting her clothing into strips “with great seriousness”, laying a long trail in the next hotel cellar stop. Rose knows that not only the worthy will follow the trail laid out. That’s what happens. When Rose finally appears ill-dressed due to her scissors-clipping, Voss becomes intrusive. Rose giggles. At this point at the latest, the Hesse analogy must be shelved.
The young little boy is third in the group. Hänschen is not only dressed like a harlequin , but also acts like a fool . Otto, the wrong doctor, number four in the tour company, is the one who persuades Hanschen to have a total eye resection . When Hansen stands there without an eye in his head after the operation , it is - as I said - Voss who calls the police. But the fake Doctor Otto is shot in vigilante justice by the meteor, who doesn't want a police in the house, while fleeing. Meteor, the fifth Jerusalem travelers, a homeless man , who is covered with newspapers, has the Wehrmacht 's revolver his father, the court president stolen. The father had wanted a man of action, who would one day break out like a meteor , as a son. When that failed, his father accused him of wasting time. Then Meteor went naked through the city and never returned home.
Despite a dead person on the basement stairs, everything will be fine. At the end of the piece, Hänschen suddenly “miraculously” had his eyesight again. Hänschen beams as if he were taking a look at the "promised city" of Jerusalem from the hotel basement.
Finally, Dagmar enters the basement from the penthouse . Dagmar - like Voss - can hardly be on the journey to the Orient. The attractive young lady, perhaps the chief secretary, just wants to break out of her office world, but flees the hotel basement at the first opportunity. Dagmar registers facts quite soberly: The hotel basement stinks. Dagmar recognizes Rose as the “crazy woman from Bahnhofstrasse” and goes into a clinch with her until she is exhausted . Rose had attacked Dagmar first. The cause may have been Rose's insurmountable aversion to the obviously middle-class Dagmar. Rose is difficult to see through at all. For example, the woman poses as a Jew . Otto, the wrong doctor, questions this during his lifetime. Rose finally backs down after Meteor also doubts it.
Quote
- The meteor philosophizes: "I have limp hands, I should have been a writer."
Productions
- Advertisement for September 29, 2013: Large house in Meiningen Theater . Director: Jan Steinbach . With Alexandra Riemann as Rose, Matthias Herold as Voss, Lukas Benjamin Engel as Hänschen, Harald Schröpfer as Otto, Michael Jeske as Meteor and Anne Rieckhof as Dagmar.
reception
- December 19, 1994: Wolfgang Höbel on Matthias Hartmann in “Die Zeit ”: “Der Aufräumer” .
- 1995: Erken calls the travel destination Jerusalem a “utopian place of happiness” and observes how the six figures seem to gradually come together, but in reality drift apart. In this "integral work" Tankred Dorst got rid of the stage author's concerns about action. With the plot, which has largely been lost, the director only needs to symbolize certain symbols.
radio play
- 1992, SDR : "To Jerusalem" . Director: Otto Düben .
literature
Text output
- Tankred Dorst: To Jerusalem. With drawings by Johannes Grützke and a comment by Friederike Roth . Insel-Taschenbuch 1541. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main-Leipzig 1994 (1st edition) 84 pages. ISBN 3-458-33241-3 .
- To Jerusalem. Pp. 197–242 in Tankred Dorst. The shadow line and other pieces. Collaboration with Ursula Ehler . Edition 6 (content: Parzival . Fernando Krapp wrote this letter to me . Mr. Paul . To Jerusalem. The shadow line . The history of the arrows ). Epilogue: Günther Erken. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995 (1st edition), without ISBN, 375 pages (edition used).
Secondary literature
- Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Text + criticism Issue 145: Tankred Dorst . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich, January 2000, ISBN 3-88377-626-2 .
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature . German Authors A-Z . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 , p. 126, left column.