Among vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado

Data
Title:	Among vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado
Genus:	Outdoor play
Original language:	German
Author:	Jochen Bludau
Literary source:	Karl May : The spirit of the llano estakado
Publishing year:	1972
Place of premiere:	Elspe
Director of the premiere	Karl Streck
people
	Peter Löher: Winnetou ; Jochen Bludau : Old Shatterhand ; Heinz Grotthoff: Jakob Pfefferkorn ; Rudi Plugge: David Kroners ; Heinrich Greve : Hobble-Frank ; NN: Bob; NN: Bloody-Fox ; Maria Bludau: Sara; Peter Hüttemeister: Sir David Lindsay ; NN: Grissom, his servant; Erwin Greve: Tobias Preisegott Burton (Thomas Weller); NN: Jim Preston, "Vulture"; NN: Ted Leader, "Geier"; NN: George Miller, "Vulture"; NN: Tobias Gordon, "Geier"; NN: Henry Milton, "Vulture"; NN: Ted Walker, "Geier"; NN: Ed "Baby" Baker, "Geier"; NN: Tevua-schohe; Meinolf Pape: Schiba-bigk; Günter Isenberg: medicine man of the Komantschen ; NN: Hawk's Eye; NN: Wakin-Akide; NN: Ryan, stagecoach; Franz Kaiser: Schmidt; NN: his wife, his children; In foreplay: Robert Marteau : Gerd Fuchs; NN: Martin Fuchs, his father; NN: Gertrud Fuchs, his mother; NN: Elisabeth Fuchs, his sister;

Among vultures - The spirit of the Llano Estacado is an open-air play based on motifs from the story of the same name by Karl May by Jochen Bludau . It waspremieredin Elspe in1972.

Content (of the story)

In the Llano Estacado , a dry plateau, the so-called "vultures" are up to mischief: these criminals change the path markings and then rob the people who have died of thirst. So far nobody has been able to stop them, but a mysterious “ghost” has been chasing these vultures for some time and kills them with a shot in the forehead.

In Helmers Home, on the edge of the Llano, all kinds of Western men (Jemmy, Davy, Hobble-Frank, Juggle-Fred, Old Shatterhand ) and Winnetou meet who decide to protect an emigrant train from the villains on its way through the desert. They are supported by the young Comanche Schiba-bigk, who wants to avenge the murder of his father. The Llano vultures are caught and killed one by one.

The "ghost" turns out to be Bloody-Fox, who was found bleeding as a child and without memory in the Llano next to his murdered parents. He knows a secret oasis in the middle of Llano, which is the starting point for his vengeance.

Performances

54,000 spectators saw the world premiere of this piece in Elspe .

In 1973 the Bludau play was staged by Toni Graschberger in Bad Segeberg .

Since the title of the double volume "Unter Vultures" is also very popular due to the film adaptation of the same name , open-air theaters usually use this as a title when they put one of the two individual novels "The Bear Hunter's Son" or "The Spirit of the Llano Estacado" on stage bring.

In Elspe (book: Jochen Bludau ): 1990 (significantly revised version);
re-edited several times: 1995, 2002, 2014
In Staatz (book: Paul Robert): 1990
In Ratingen (book: Jochen Bludau): 1991
In Bad Segeberg (book: Michael Stamp): 1998, 2014
In Mörschied (book: Arnd Limpinsel): 2002
In Bischofswerda (book: Uwe Hänchen): 2007
In Dasing (book: Peter Görlach): 2012

swell

Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the premiere
Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the table of contents

literature

Jochen Bludau : Among vultures - The spirit of the Llano Estacado. Open-air play based on motifs by Karl May , Hamburg: sales office and publishing house for German stage writers and stage composers, no year [approx. 1970].
Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl May Games Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl May Verlag 1999, p. 154 ff.

Web links

Literature by and about Unter Vultures - The spirit of the Llano Estacado in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

[1] ttp://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_1973)

[2] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gierenden_(Elspe_1990)

[3] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_1995)

[4] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_2002)

[5] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Elspe_2014)

[6] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Staatz_1990)

[7] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Ratingen_1991)

[8] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_1998)

[9] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_2014)

[10] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_estacado_(Mörschied_2002)

[11] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_estacado_(Bischofswerda_2007)

[12] ttp://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Dasing_2012)