Sand (Tankred Dorst)
Sand is a scenario by Tankred Dorst , based on which a TV film was produced on WDR in 1971 under the direction of Peter Palitzsch and broadcast on ARD on October 26 of the same year .
On March 23, 1819, the radical Wunsiedel fraternity member Carl Sand - a Jena student of theology - stabbed the Weimar writer Kotzebue to death in Mannheim . In the above film, Valentin Jeker played the sand and Malte Jaeger played the Kotzebue.
history
Tankred Dorst is content with hints. Actually, it assumes knowledge of the concrete cause of the politically motivated murder. In 1817 - as a result of the Wars of Liberation - patriotic -minded German students burned the book "History of the Germans" by the Russian State Councilor Kotzebue at the Wartburg Festival . Because the writer had mocked the noble ideals of the German national movement of the fraternity.
Scenes
In 68 scenes, the way Sands, the man with the two daggers in his robe, leads via Jena, Wunsiedel, Erfurt , Eisenach , Frankfurt am Main , Darmstadt , Lorsch to Mannheim. The sequence is interrupted with a few glances at the bad end of the story.
- Jena
Sand takes Follen's sayings seriously, which say that those “who for the general” - meaning the strivings of the fraternity - “undertakes the terrible deed” must overcome himself. The preparation for the murder looks like this: Together with two other students, Sand goes to the battlefield near Jena and fills his mouth full of earth in the field in a patriotic frenzy. Alone in his student room, Sand staples his hand on the tabletop with a long needle. The professor lectures in the anatomy lecture hall of the university . The budding theologian Sand looks at the knowledgeable opening of a corpse - among all the future doctors.
Before Sand left for Mannheim, he wrote his dear mother a farewell letter to Wunsiedel. In it the clerk asserts that he is doing his duty.
- Eisenach
Sand leads the fellow travelers to the Wartburg, but does not encounter any understanding of his ideals from the fellow travelers.
- Frankfurt am Main
In a bookstore, Sand sets fire to the above-mentioned book in the presence of the indifferent bookseller Koetzebue.
- Darmstadt
In the meadows in front of the city, Sand befriends 15-year-old sensual Anna and goes into a barn with her. On the Melibocus , on the door post to the tower, he notes the date under his name: March 20, 1819.
- Mannheim
Sand registered with the State Councilor Kotzebue under the name Heinrichs from Mietau . The assassin believed that the State Council would not receive a theology student from Jena. Kotzebue had lived in Courland for a long time . Mietau therefore belongs to Kotzebue's second home. Sand stabs Kotzebue right after the first short exchange of words. Kotzebue hadn't struggled. Sand wants to kill himself, but only seriously injures himself with the dagger. When the murderer was executed in Mannheim a year later, he was still so weak that he had to be placed on a wooden chair before the execution. There is a legend that people later cut splinters out of the chair - as a relic, so to speak.
radio play
- 1973, BR : "Sand - An Assassin". Director: Heinz von Cramer . With Ernst Jacobi as Sand and Franz Kutschera as Kotzebue.
literature
- Tankred Dorst: Sand. A scenario. Collaboration: Ursula Ehler. Design by Wieland Heitmüller & Norbert Kleiner. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1971. Unnumbered pages. Paperback. Illustrated. ISBN 3-462-00836-6 .
Used edition
- Sand. A scenario. Collaboration: Ursula Ehler. Pp. 113–158 in Tankred Dorst. Political plays. Work edition 4 (content: Toller . Sand. Little man, what now? Ice Age . Goncourt or The Abolition of Death ) Suhrkamp Verlag 1987 (1st edition), without ISBN, 432 pages.
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
Web links
- Klemens Vogel in 2000 at Scheinschlag.de
Remarks
- ↑ On page 135 of the edition used there are two photos from the film (1. The three students on the battlefield near Jena. 2. Sand with a dagger in hand and his dying victim on the ground).
- ↑ A student in Jena, for example, gets upset about Kotzebue's “miserable betrayals” (Edition used, p. 123, 12. Zvo), but nowhere in the play is it said what it should have been.
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↑ Some of the insertions in the otherwise chronologically presented journey Sands from Jena to Mannheim, which, as it were, anticipate the end of the young traveler:
- The mother laments the fate of her beloved son in Wunsiedel (edition used, p. 128 bottom to p. 131 middle).
- The Knaupe siblings - the renters in Jena - get their hands on letters from Sand to newspaper editors in Bamberg and Bremen (p. 133 center).
- Monologue of the commis voyageur (traveling salesman, played by Peter Kaufmann in the above-mentioned film) - a fellow traveler from Jena to Frankfurt am Main (p. 136 center).
- The cameraman trainee F., who lodged Sand on the transit in Darmstadt, testifies (p. 142 above).