Tailor Wibbel
Schneider Wibbel is the title of a play by Hans Müller-Schlösser that premiered on July 14, 1913 at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf .
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According to the author, the story goes back to a true incident in Berlin at the time of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . A master baker had been sentenced to several weeks in prison after being stabbed while intoxicated. He persuaded his companion to serve the sentence instead. However, he died in prison, so that the master was now considered dead. When this became known, the king also found out about it and pardoned the baker.
Müller-Schlösser moved the place of the action to his hometown Düsseldorf in the " time of the French occupation " at the beginning of the nineteenth century and turned the baker into a tailor. He was inspired while presumably from the figure of the tailor Kilian from the work The book Le Grand by Heinrich Heine . The offense for which the tailor Anton Wibbel is responsible is now the insult to the Emperor Napoleon . Here, too, the journeyman dies while serving his master's sentence. When the master tailor Wibbel and his wife Fin watched from the window of his own funeral, the often quoted sentence fell:
"Well, I am for a beautiful corpse" .
The tailor, who is officially dead, returns as his own twin brother.
Reception history
In 1926 a sequel to the story appeared under the title Wibbel's Resurrection .
On the stage of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus the tailor Wibbel was played more than a thousand times by Paul Henckels , here his wife Thea Grodtczinsky took over the role of Fin Wibbel. The play has also been performed on many other German theaters. Günter Grass set the Düsseldorf actor Karl Brückel a literary monument for his master role as tailor Wibbel in his novel Years of Dogs . The Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus performed the play in 2010/2011 and 2015 with Moritz Führmann in the leading role in the Savoy Theater.
The composer Mark Lothar wrote - based on the drama - the opera Schneider Wibbel , which premiered in 1938 at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.
The later very popular writer B. Traven is said to have appeared at the premiere in 1913 . Traven, bourgeois Otto Feige, worked from 1913 to 1915 under the name Ret Marut as an actor at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.
Film adaptations
The story has been filmed eight times, including two theatrical performances that were shown on television.
- 1920: As a silent film by Eiko Film , Berlin by the film producer Franz Vogel . The film was directed by Manfred Noa . The Wibbel couple played Hermann Picha and Margarete Kupfer . Other actors were Gustav Trautschold as Mölfes' apprentice tailor, Wilhelm Diegelmann as forester Grimm, Loo Hardy as daughter Karoline Grimm, Christian Sigmund Elfeld as prison inspector and Meinhard Maur as prison locker. Paul Adler was in charge of the camera and Karl Machus designed the production .
- 1931: Paul Henckels directed and took on the leading role, his wife Thea Grodtczinsky played the fin. Furthermore, Wolfgang Zilzer as a tailor Zimpel, Harry Berber as Mölfes, Ferdinand Hart as Heubes - Colonel of the Rifle Guard, Hermann Vallentin as Meunier, Hugo Fischer -Köppe as city policeman, Friedrich Ettel as Küfermeister Krönkel, Fritz Odemar as Fitzke, Maria Krahn as Frau Fitzke, Max Wilmsen as Pangdich, Gaston Briese as Knipperling, Albert Walter as Fläsch - peddler, Till Klockow as Hopp-Majänn, Ferdinand von Alten as Piccard, Wilhelm Graefe as the host, Josef Dahmen as the host's son and Franz Stein as the night watchman. The music was by Willy Schmidt-Gentner . The camera was directed by Willy Hameister . The premiere took place on January 5, 1931.
- 1939: Directed by Viktor de Kowa with Erich Ponto and Fita Benkhoff in the title roles. The script was written by Bobby E. Lüthge and Helmut Käutner .
- 1954: Paul Henckels and his wife Thea Grodtczinsky took on the title roles a second time, this time in a film adaptation for television. Furthermore, Richard Assmann played as Küfermeister Krönkel, Curt Faber , Georg Hilbert and Carl Raaf as Wibbel's three journeymen, Hans Bosenius as the peddler Fläsch, Käthe Wendführ as the banter Hopp-Majänn, Heinz Koppmann as the tin beater Pangdich, Karl Müller as Fitzke, Margarethe Fröhlich as Fitzkes Wife, Kai Möller as a policeman, Wilhelm Pilgram as Knipperling, landlord “Zum Schwarzen Anker”, Wolfgang Blum as Schäng, his son, Friedrich Schütze as Picard, a French official, and Klaus Schaller as sexton.
- 1956: Title: The Sunday Child . In the film adaptation with Heinz Rühmann in the leading role, the plot of the story of "Schneider Wibbel" was moved to post-war Germany of the British occupation zone. During the period around the currency reform , the prison stays here as a result of wearing a British army uniform on the Carnival of Women. A British military tribunal sentenced the tailor Wibbel to prison. His companion Mattes dies in prison. He appears as his own twin brother, Jimmie Wibbel. The title “Das Sonntagskind”, which reflects the change in meaning of the term in history, is interesting. Directed by Kurt Meisel . It played Hannelore Bollmann as Fin Wibbel, Werner Peters as Mölfes, Guenther Lueders as Mattes, Walter Giller as Bosty McMillar, Carla Hagen as little Marie and Ellen Waldeck as a grandmother.
- 1959: Directed by Peter Hamel with Lucy Millowitsch , Willy Millowitsch , Hans Müller-Westernhagen and Heinz Bennent .
- 1961: For television with Willy Millowitsch .
- 1980: A television broadcast from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater directed by Wolf Rahtjen with Fritz Hollenbeck , Ursula Hinrichs , Jens Scheiblich and Hanno Thurau . The Low German adaptation came from Günther Siegmund .
Radio plays
After 1945 five radio plays were also produced:
- 1947 by RIAS Berlin, with Paul Henckels and Thea Grodtczinsky - director: Hanns Korngiebel
- 1948 by NWDR Cologne , with Erich Ponto and Lucy Millowitsch - director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1950 by SWF , with Paul Henckels and Thea Grodtczinsky - Director: Karlheinz Schilling ,
- 1962 by WDR , with Erich Ponto and Lucy Millowitsch - director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1967 from WDR, with Josef Meinertzhagen and Elsa Faurel
Remembrance culture in Düsseldorf
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The play is very popular in Düsseldorf. The Schneider-Wibbel-Haus , built in 1955, is located on Bolkerstraße at the corner of Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse in Düsseldorf's old town . Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse was built in 1957 on the site of the war-torn shopping arcade of the Hartoch department store . The approximately 100 meter long stretch of street connects Bolkerstrasse with Flinger Strasse. The alley and house were built by the cinema entrepreneur Franz Röder, who had a number of references to the popular play posted.
- Bolkerstrasse and Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse
- Three busts on the facade of the Schneider-Wibbel-Haus commemorate the author Hans Müller-Schlösser and the actors and actresses Paul Henckels and Thea Grodtczinsky, the two actors of the Wibbel couple. The portraits were created by the sculptor Rudolf Christian Baisch .
- Above the busts, a large relief by the sculptor Rudolf Zieseniss shows the following theater scene: the funeral procession and the Wibbel couple, who stand behind the curtain and watch the procession; underneath the tailor's saying: What am I a beautiful corpse! .
- At the back of the house, a large pair of scissors is depicted under the gable, as well as the house name Schneider Wibbel Haus .
- Several arcade columns show the relief of Anton Wibbel sitting cross-legged .
- Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse
- In the alley, diagonally across from the Schneider Wibbel house, there is a small, somewhat worn bronze statue of the tailor, a work by Kurträder . It is said that touching it brings happiness. She therefore has bare spots on her nose, hand and knees. In the background of the figure, the tops of the castle tower and the St. Lambertus church tower are depicted. A plaque above the statue says 60 years of Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse 1957-2007. In memory of its founder FRANZ RÖDER 1901–1992 .
- Various colored reliefs on another building show props from the play, such as a Napoleon hat , drum and tailoring equipment.
- There is a large music box on a transverse house wall that protrudes into the street . Five times a day to open two doors, it seems a Schneider Wibbel figure in cross-legged , she uses a needle than baton for listening to tunes. The times of this game scene are written under the clock as large numbers: 11 13 15 18 21. Below is a large lettering Schneider Wibbel with an oversized needle.
There are restaurants on the ground floor of all houses. The street is known for its Spanish restaurants, is also located here, the cinema Cinema . The cinema was built in 1957 by Franz Röder.
Excitement in 2010
In August 2010, Schneider Wibbel caused a stir again when the Schneider Wibbel lettering under the music box in the alley named after him was removed and replaced with the company name of a restaurant that had just moved in there. Although the lettering was not a cultural monument, but an advertising sign for a restaurant with this name that had been there for decades, the sudden change caused a lot of displeasure.
Employees of the Rheinische Bühne Düsseldorf found the lettering on the scrap container of an advertising material manufacturer in Solingen. After the sign had been used as decoration for the new theater performance of the Schneider-Wibbel play, the owner of the restaurant, surprised by the excitement, had it put back under the music box.
The "Schneider Wibbel" aircraft
The Fokker F27-100 aircraft with the build number 10200 was delivered on July 16, 1963 to LTU International Airways , based in Düsseldorf, with the registration D-BAKE and on October 1 it was given the name "Schneider Wibbel". On April 1, 1972, the aircraft was leased to the Dutch airline KLM, which on the same day passed it on to its subsidiary NLM as PH-KFC. In April 1975 the machine was bought and got the new name "Willem Versteegh".
Web links
- Guest performance of the Düsseldorf theater in Lille 1915
- Poster of a performance in the First World War on the Western Front
- The film "Schneider Wibbel" from 1939
supporting documents
- ↑ https://www.duesseldorf.de/heineinstitut/archiv/vergleichbest/mueller_schloesser_hans.shtml
- ↑ www.earlycinema.uni-koeln.de: The German Early Cinema Database: Schneider Wibbel (1920) . Retrieved November 14, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/imperia/md/content/abteilungen/abtfa/lost_films_tonfilme.pdf
- ↑ www.imdb.com: Schneider Wibbel (1954 TV Movie). Retrieved November 14, 2015.
- ^ Lettering Schneider Wibbel has disappeared from alley | RP Online
- ↑ a b A supposed cultural asset is a billboard: Puzzle about Schneider Wibbel lettering solved | RP ONLINE ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ↑ About Hans Müller-Schlösser ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ www.ltu-flugzeuge.de: History of Airplanes, Fokker F27 Friendship . Retrieved November 13, 2015.
