Ollapotrida
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| Title: | Ollapotrida |
| Genus: | comedy |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Alexander Lernet-Holenia |
| Publishing year: | 1926 |
| Premiere: | December 11, 1926 |
| Place of premiere: | Schauspielhaus Frankfurt am Main |
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Ollapotrida is a comedy in one act of the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet- Holenia from 1926. The title of the piece refers to the still quite known to the formation time of the play, originally Catalan Stew Olla podrida (see. Fr. Pot pourri ), meaning in connection of this play, with reference to the turbulent plot, “mish-mash”, “mess” or “all sorts”.
action
The play takes place in the period in which the play was created, one early evening in Henninger's upscale city apartment , which consists of a salon and an adjoining room (outside the set).
Henninger is lying on a divan with Marie Lassarus , obviously they had come closer physically. Henninger encourages the Lassarus to get up and leave, but she is shy. There is a knock on the door and the servant Toison d'Or ( French for “ Golden Fleece ”) reports that Mr. Lassarus is standing in a strangely cheerful mood at the door. Henninger tries to get rid of him, but Lassarus really wants to come in. Pretending that he is not yet dressed, he can put Lassarus off for a moment and hides his wife in the next room.
Lassarus comes in to tell Henninger that he has invited Charlotte Rosenzopf and the young Clara Ende to a rendezvous in Henninger's apartment, they should arrive at any moment. Henninger is outraged by this in no way arranged invitation, especially since he is hiding Lassarus' wife in his apartment, but has to submit to the ladies who arrive one after the other. As soon as the two ladies have cast off, the house servant announces that Rittmeister Rosenzopf , who has apparently followed his wife from his apartment, is standing in front of the door in anger and wants to be admitted. Against Henninger's resistance, the two women who had arrived hide in the next room shortly before Rosenzopf stormed into the apartment and wanted to see his wife.
Rosenzopf insists on looking into the next room, where he thinks he knows his wife. Henninger now has an idea and loudly explains to the incredulous Rosenzopf that there is actually a woman in the room, but not Rosenzopf's wife. To protect the lady and himself, he could not say who it was. After demanding the Rittmeister's silence, Henninger goes into the dark next room and comes back with Clara Ende. The puzzled braid of roses leaves the apartment. Lassarus should go after him and make sure that he really left.
Now the Rosenzopf and the Lassarus come from the next room. You want to go, but you can't because the still suspicious Rosenzopf is on guard outside the front door. Soon afterwards he reappears, but this time accompanied by Clara Ende's father and Schüsseler , her fiancé, whom he had summoned in his anger. The three women can retreat into the next room just in time. Rosenzopf now claims that Clara is over in the next room. Henninger goes to Rosenzopf, he is probably no longer right in the head, that he completely mistakenly suspects first his wife and then Clara Ende in the next room. Rather, he received the Lassarus couple tonight, and suddenly they would not have felt well. So she went into the next room while her husband was out to get something for her. As proof, Henninger brings Ms. Lassarus from the next room. Father and fiancé apologize many times, while Rosenzopf goes crazy and has to be maneuvered out of the apartment with their combined strength.
A few moments later there is great commotion at the door. The three gentlemen met Lassarus in the hallway and told him about the presence of his wife. Now all four try to storm the apartment. Henninger is now hiding with the three women behind a Spanish wall and impressing the Toison d'Or, who is defending the door, to let the gentlemen in and tell them that he himself is entrenched in the next room with loaded pistols and will shoot anyone who comes in . In the salon, the Rittmeister dares to venture alone, then into the next room with the other gentlemen. The three women and Henninger immediately disappear through the apartment door. In the next room, the gentlemen are now beside themselves that neither a person nor any other way out can be found there. At the end Toison d'Or comes out of the room horrified and pretends that his master threw himself out of the window into his death out of desperation.
Film adaptations
- Austria 1966, stage adaptation, 69 min, director: Wolfgang Glück , with Peter Vogel as Henninger, Christiane Hörbiger as Marie Lassarus and Fritz Muliar as Toison d'Or , among others .
expenditure
- Stage manuscript. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1926
- in: Austrian theater of the 20th century . Edited by Joachim Schondorff. Munich, Langen Müller, 1961, pp. 327-373.
- in: One-act plays and small dramas of the twenties . Edited by Klaus Siebenhaar. Stuttgart, Philipp Reclam, 1988, pp. 141-198.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.film.at about the film adaptation of "Ollapotrida" . Accessed July 7, 2020.