Stallerhof
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| Title: | Stallerhof |
| Genus: | Stage play |
| Original language: | German , dialogues: Bavarian |
| Author: | Franz Xaver Kroetz |
| Publishing year: | 1971 |
| Premiere: | June 24, 1972 |
| Place of premiere: | Deutsches Schauspielhaus , Hamburg |
| Place and time of the action: | Bavarian farm, present |
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Stallerhof is a play in three acts by Franz Xaver Kroetz from 1971.
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1st act
The mentally retarded and short-sighted Beppi is seen by her parents, the farmer Staller and his wife, as a social disgrace and they are ashamed of her. The constant pressure that Beppi is exposed to increases her failures: because she cannot read a letter correctly, she receives slaps in the face. Only when she is no longer monitored does she read the letter correctly.
Only the almost 60-year-old farmhand Sepp deals with her. Sepp tells her a suggestive Indian story in which an Indian woman who has been expelled from her tribe is rescued by a white man. The servant, who is oppressed by Beppi's parents, longs for freedom and independence, but finds no way to fulfill his social and sexual desires. He can only play the master to his dog.
2nd act
Beppi and Sepp visit a ghost train. Sepp first comforts the frightened Beppi, then he pounds on her. Later he visits a restaurant with Beppi and grows increasingly into his new role as master and protector of the young woman.
The parents discover the affair, and the angry Staller reproaches Sepp. Out of revenge and at the same time helplessness he poisons his dog. Sepp has to leave the farm and gives Beppi a bar of chocolate as a goodbye.
3rd act
Staller and his wife advise what to do with the pregnant Beppi and even consider murder. Then the stable woman prepares an abortion attempt on her daughter, but cannot bring herself to do it out of pity. For better or worse, Beppi must now be taken more seriously than before. The piece ends with the onset of labor pains.
reception
The premiere of the socially critical stage play by director Ulrich Heising on June 24, 1972 made the 18-year-old leading actress Eva Mattes known, who was seen naked for half a scene. Reinhard Baumgart wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 26th that Eva Mattes' Beppi had gained an aura that Kroetz probably did not indulge her at all. Mattes received the Hamburg Inselpreis for best actress of 1972 for her performance. Michael Töteberg later found that no other production matched the intensity of the portrayal.
In 1975 Kroetz had the sequel Geisterbahn follow, which ends with the death of Sepp and the killing of Beppi's child. Stallerhof was also translated into Hebrew and performed at the HaBima National Theater in Israel in 1986 . The Austrian composer Gerd Kühr wrote an opera of the same name in 1988, which is based closely on the original.
Productions
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Casino, Vienna :
- Premiere on December 10, 2010
- Staller: Branko Samarovski; Staller: Barbara Petritsch; Beppi: Sarah Viktoria Frick ; Sepp: Johannes Krisch; Director: David Bösch
- Sarah Viktoria Frick was awarded the “ Nestroy ” in the category Best Actress for her role as Beppi 2011 .
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Akademietheater, Vienna:
- Takeover of the production from the casino on March 20, 2012
- Staller: Sebastian Kowski; Staller: Marietta Meguid; Beppi: Silja Bächli; Sepp: Martin Leutgeb; Director: Stephan Kimmig
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Stuttgart Theater :
- Premiere on October 26, 2012
- Beppi: Silja Bächli; Staller: Sebastian Kowski ; Sepp: Martin Leutgeb; Staller: Marietta Meguid; Director: Stephan Kimmig
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Deutsches Theater, Berlin :
- Premiere on February 23, 2013
- Thorsten Hierse (Narrator), Matthias Neukirch (Staller), Isabel Schosnig (Stallerin), Mereika Schulz (Beppi), Markwart Müller-Elmau (Sepp), Frank Abt (Director)
See also
- The Larcher case
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stallerhof. (No longer available online.) Deutsches Theater, archived from the original on January 20, 2013 ; Retrieved February 20, 2013 . 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.
- ^ Johan Dehoust: "Stallerhof" at the Deutsches Theater: Really disabled. SPIEGEL ONLINE, February 20, 2013, accessed February 20, 2013 .
