And Pippa is dancing!

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And Pippa is dancing! is a fairy tale drama in four acts by Gerhart Hauptmann , which was composed in autumn 1905 and premiered on January 19, 1906 in the Lessing Theater in Berlin .

Four men covet - each in their own way - the Apollonian Pippa, an extremely delicate crystal glass doll whose dance is reminiscent of butterflies, birds and sparks. Pippa with the wonderful titian blonde hair breaks the Dionysian forest rascal chicken.

Gerhart Hauptmann on a painting by Lovis Corinth from 1900

overview

Gerhart Hauptmann explains, “the fairy tale takes place in the Silesian mountains at the time of high winter”. The author starts a "poetic liberation attempt"; is split into four instances, all of which are enchanted by the nanny Pippa, the daughter of the glass technician Tagliazoni from Murano . The four gentlemen can be understood as two pairs of opposites. On the one hand, there is the glassworks director for the Logos and Michael Lebrecht Hellriegel, known as Michel, for the fantasy of the romantic German youth. On the other hand, the ancient, wise Wann in the mythical drama represents the superior mind and the chicken represents the ecstatic .

Pippa's death towards the end of the play can be explained if a statement by the director of the glassworks is taken at face value. When Pippa appears in the fairy tale for the first time, he says to her: "You actually come from the glass oven: I dreamed that yesterday." The glass fictional figure then dies like this: Pippa, who has to dance because otherwise she dies, will former glassblower chicken invited to dance. And “he crushes the drinking glass; ... the broken pieces clink. Pippa flinches through it, and a sudden paralysis seizes her ... She staggers, and when she catches her arms. She's dead. ”Chicken dies right away.

content

Far and wide is nothing but snow, spruce and bitter cold. Inside, in the heated tavern of the old Wende in Rotwassergrund, a Bohemian-German bar, Pippa dances around the mad old chicken - to the delight of the guests. The clumsy old man cannot catch the flighty creature.

Pippa's father is urgently needed by the director of the glassworks. But the glassmaker cheats in the tavern while playing cards and is killed by Silesian glass workers for this. The old chicken, this rough nature boy, kidnapped Pippa to his lonely, neglected hut, but Michel Hellriegel, son of a fruit woman who calls himself a traveling artist, approaches, frees the beautiful child and leads it to the comfortable "Central German observatory" of at least 90-year-old when, at a height of one thousand meters above sea level. Chicken is defeated by the wise Wann in a duel. When Pippa is torn to her death by the old chicken during her last dance, Michel Hellriegel goes blind and can only start the planned trip to Italy with his lover in his mind.

premiere

At the premiere, sixteen-year-old Ida Orloff played the title role, Rudolf Rittner played the dismissed glassblower Huhn, Willy Grunwald played the craftsman Michel Hellriegel and Oscar Sauer was seen as a mild, mythical personality when.

Testimonials

  • Gerhart Hauptmann about his piece after the premiere to Schnitzler : "Now I don't understand myself."
  • "Hellriegel is the pure, naive, child-like, believing element, the chicken is the power of the raw and wild instinct, the director is what cynically sucks about the instinct, at the same time the enjoyment due to cold refinements - but also something more. When is that which is superior, lofty, form-like in the poet himself. It is what he wants to be. Master of the game. "
  • 1935 after the premiere in Dresden with Manja Behrens as Pippa: "As Ms. Behrens speaks, I want to be spoken."

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reception

  • 1906
  • Alfred Polgar criticizes: “During the final act, when the symbolic eats itself deeper and deeper into the living, the figures become more and more anemic, the processes more and more principled, fatigue sets in. Boredom and respect keep the last word. "
  • 1952: Mayer writes about the reaction of the premiere audience in the winter of 1906 that some had put the pointless game "with indistinct fairy tale symbols" aside and the others had been deeply shaken by the "great poetry". Gerhart Hauptmann drew from the legends of the Giant Mountains around the Kynast Castle near Agnetendorf . The author of Robert Browning's “Pippa goes by” has the name of his glass doll .
  • 1984: After Sprengel, the perplexed premiere audience was also irritated by the new mix of reality (card players in the first act) and fairy tales (rest of the drama).
  • 1993: Seyppel calls the old Wann a Jakob-Böhme figure.
  • 1995: After Leppmann, Gerhart Hauptmann wrote the drama for Ida Orloff. The piece is the first part of the planned tetralogy Walenzauber (Walen = Silesian gold prospectors, also Venediger) and should be continued in the Gaukelfuhre (also Galahad ), the third part of the planned trilogy Valenzauber .
  • 2004: Sprengel points to the two dance scenes that held the piece together and takes the fairy tale as an allegory of the artistic process.
  • 2012: Eight years later, Sprengel sees Pippa as a girl made of flesh and blood.

literature

Book editions

First edition:
  • And Pippa is dancing! A glassworks fairy tale in four acts. S. Fischer, Berlin 1906
Output used:
  • And Pippa is dancing! A glassworks fairy tale. Pp. 95–164 in Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected Dramas in Four Volumes. Vol. 3,617 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952

Secondary literature

  • Gerhart Hauptmann: Selected dramas in four volumes. Vol. 1. With an introduction to the dramatic work of Gerhart Hauptmann by Hans Mayer . 692 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952
  • And Pippa is dancing! Pp. 173–185 in Peter Sprengel : Gerhart Hauptmann. Epoch - work - effect. 298 pages. CH Beck, Munich 1984 (Beck'sche Elementarbücher), ISBN 3-406-30238-6
  • Joachim Seyppel : Gerhart Hauptmann (heads of the 20th century; 121). Revised new edition. Morgenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-371-00378-7
  • Wolfgang Leppmann : Gerhart Hauptmann. A biography. Ullstein, Berlin 1996 (Ullstein-Buch 35608), 415 pages, ISBN 3-548-35608-7 (identical text with ISBN 3-549-05469-6 , Propylaen, Berlin 1995, subtitled with Die Biographie )
  • Friedhelm Marx : Gerhart Hauptmann . Reclam, Stuttgart 1998 (RUB 17608, Literature Studies series). 403 pages, ISBN 3-15-017608-5
  • Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9 .
  • Peter Sprengel: Gerhart Hauptmann. Bourgeoisie and big dream. A biography. 848 pages. CH Beck, Munich 2012 (1st edition), ISBN 978-3-406-64045-2

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Hofmannsthal and Wedekind were among the audience at the dress rehearsal (Sprengel anno 2012, p. 377, 5th Zvu).
  2. ↑ Michel Hellriegel can do magic with certain utensils. There is a little table-deck-you, a ball of thread that, unrolled, shows the way, an elixir against giants and magic competition, and a toothpick as a sword (edition used, p, 125 below).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leppmann, p. 246, 8th Zvu
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 96 below
  3. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 176, 4. Zvo
  4. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 182 below
  5. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 177, 1st Zvu
  6. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 176 below, p. 179 and Mayer, p. 65
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 103, 11. Zvu
  8. ↑ Edition used, p. 159, 3rd Zvo to p. 160, 5th Zvo
  9. ↑ Edition used, p. 134, 1. Zvu
  10. ↑ Marx, p. 131, 9. Zvu
  11. ↑ Hauptmann, quoted in Sprengel anno 2012, p. 378, 2. Zvo
  12. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann, quoted in Marx, p. 135, 10. Zvu (from: Hans-Egon Hass (Hrsg.): Gerhart Hauptmann. Complete Works, Vol. XI , Frankfurt 1974, p. 1150)
  13. ↑ Gerhart Hauptmann, quoted by Hanns-Georg Rodek : Bormanns Geliebte. The actress Manja Behrens loved Bormann and spoiled it with Goebbels . In: Die Welt , March 15, 2003, p. 29.
  14. ^ Entry in the DDB
  15. ^ Bettina Weber: Entry in die-deutsche-buehne.de
  16. ↑ March 2015: Everything has to be different at Kulturraumverdichtung.de
  17. ↑ Pitt Herrmann: Article at sn-herne.de
  18. ↑ 1961: Entry in the IMDb
  19. ↑ Leppmann, p. 248 middle
  20. ↑ Sprengel anno 2012, p. 377, 3. Zvo and Marx, p. 133, 5. Zvu
  21. ↑ Sprengel anno 2012, p. 377, 2nd Zvu
  22. ↑ Polgar, quoted in Marx, p. 136 middle from Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): Alfred Polgar - Kleine Schriften , Vol. 5, Reinbek 1985, p. 212
  23. ↑ Mayer, p. 63 below
  24. ↑ Mayer, p. 64
  25. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 175 middle
  26. ↑ Seyppel, p. 46, 14. Zvo
  27. ↑ Leppmann, p. 240 middle
  28. ↑ Sprengel anno 1984, p. 181 above
  29. ↑ Leppmann, p. 247 below
  30. ↑ Edition used, p. 111 and p. 159 below
  31. ↑ Sprengel anno 2004, p. 53, 3rd Zvu
  32. ↑ Sprengel anno 2004, p. 524, 13. Zvo
  33. ↑ Sprengel anno 2012, p. 378, 9. Zvo
  34. ^ First edition S. Fischer, Berlin 1906