Keep quiet, boy!

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Keep quiet, boy! is a play by the writer Fitzgerald Kusz .

The premiere of the folk piece was on October 6, 1976 in the Nuremberg theater . Directed by Herbert Lehnert and Friedrich Schirmer .

The eight-person piece is a humorous satirical depiction of a typical, petty bourgeois family celebration on the occasion of a confirmation , at which the adults eat and drink, gossip and argue and the “boy” hardly gets a word on his special day. “Schweig, Bub!” Impresses with its high recognition value of the dialogues, characters and processes.

Kusz himself describes the drama as a folk play and thus places it in Ödön von Horváth's tradition of the renewed folk play, which deliberately distinguishes itself from the trivial folk theater ("Komödienstadel"). The implementation of Horváth's drama-theoretical text Instructions for Use can be done in silence, boy! understand in every detail. It affects the petty-bourgeois staff as well as the use of " educational jargon " and the use of "silence" as a conscious design tool. In Kusz's case, communication between people fails even more than in Horváth's stories from the Vienna Woods - failure becomes, in the title, the program of the drama.

In the original line-up played Johannes Bösiger , Hans Walter Goss, Karl sleeve, Gabriele Kastner, Sofie Keeser , Ute Kilian and Barbara Thummet.

Trivia

  • The premiere on October 6, 1976 was a glittering party. There was applause for twenty minutes. The play was on the program of the Nuremberg State Theater until the 2008/09 season.
  • Keep quiet, boy! has been translated into thirteen German dialects and into Flemish.
  • Due to religious preferences, in some dialect versions no Protestant confirmation was celebrated, but a Catholic first communion.
  • There are eight TV recordings: BR (Franconian), HR (Hessian), twice SWR (Swabian and Palatinate), WDR (Rhenish), NDR (Low German), SRG (Swiss German), ORF (Austrian). Dialect radio play versions were broadcast by BR (with the original line-up from 1976, which is available on audio CD), SWR, Radio Bremen , SRG Bern , ORF Vorarlberg and MDR .
  • In Nuremberg alone it has been performed more than 700 times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.br.de/nachrichten/mittelfranken/inhalt/schweig-bub-102.html
  2. ↑ https://www.schultheatertexte.de/schweig-bub
  3. ↑ https://www.marktspiegel.de/nuernberg/freizeit-sport/schweig-bub-mit-hervorragender-alter-besetzung-m48375,20059.html
  4. ↑ http://kusz.de/33_jahre.php
  5. ↑ http://kusz.de/stuecke.php?id=1
  6. ↑ https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/sendung/unter-unserem-himmel/archiv/volkstheater-spielfilm/schweig-bub-hanns-christian-mueller100.html
  7. ↑ http://www.hoerspieleipps.net/hsp/11872.html
  8. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/kultur/40-jahre-schweig-bub-klassiker-meets-knodelsuppe-1.5512664