Staberl (theater)

Ignaz Schuster as Staberl in 1813

Staberl is a standing figure or funny person of the old Viennese folk theater . In the morning paper for educated readers in 1834 he is described as follows: red skirt, gray hat, blue waistcoat, lace-up boots à la Tyrolienne, crooked, thin braid.

Staberl originally represented a Viennese middle-class citizen with the profession of umbrella maker ( Parapluimacher ), who behaves awkwardly in strange circumstances, but always knows how to help with his witty wit . The figure is based on Adolf Bäuerle's posse Die Bürger in Wien (1813), but became a standing role through its actor Ignaz Schuster .

Plays with this figure in the center were called Staberliaden (for example, Staberl's doctorate as a magnetizing doctor [1817] by Franz Anton von Spaun or Staberl in Imperial Businesses [1818] by Johann Christoph von Aretin ). Staberl is also connected to the actors Johann Nestroy and especially Carl Carl , who wrote pieces for Staberl himself. Later on, Staberl shifted to puppetry and became a character in the succession of Wurstel or Kasperl .

literature

• Peter Csobadi (Ed.): The funny person on the stage. Lectures collected from the Salzburg Symposium 1993 , Salzburg: Mueller-Speiser 1994. ISBN 385145023X

Individual evidence

1. ^ Morgenblatt für educated readers , Stuttgart: Cotta 28: 1834, p. 247