Among vultures - the bear hunter's son

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Title: Among vultures - the bear hunter's son
Genus: Outdoor play
Original language: German
Author: Wulf Leisner
Literary source: Karl May : The bear hunter's son
Publishing year: 1962
Premiere: July 14, 1962
Place of premiere: Kalkberg Stadium ,
Bad Segeberg
Director of the premiere Wulf Leisner
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Under Vultures - The Bear Hunter's Son is an open-air play based on motifs from the story of the same name by Karl May by Wulf Leisner for 2 women and 16 men.

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First picture: In the valley of the white stones

  1. The Ogellallah dig up the hatchet: The chief of the Ogellallah breaks the pipe of peace and digs up the hatchet because three of his warriors were murdered by pale faces. The Indians dance the Dakota war dance .
  2. Baumann and the Prospectors: The bear hunter serves the Prospectors as a scout and is captured by the Indians. They are held liable for the deeds of other whites and threatened with death.
  3. Wokadeh and his sister: Wokadeh is a Mandan warrior and hates the Ogellallah with whom he grew up. He seeks revenge and wants to ally with the pale faces.
  4. The Vultures and Wokadeh: The Vultures, a group of tramps , overwhelm Wokadeh. Brake beats Wokadeh. This swears vengeance.
  5. Three western men: “Big Jemmy”, “Lange Davy” and “Juggle Fred” are well-cooked trappers who pretend to be foolish in order to be able to astonish their opponents.
  6. Extra performance: In an extra performance of their ability to drink, these western men fool the vultures.
  7. Discovery of a prisoner: The three discover the Indian prisoner and signal to him that they want to free him.
  8. The lasso trick: With the lasso trick that makes the vultures so "vulture", the western men disarm the gang and arrest them.
  9. Hobble Frank, Martin Baumann and Massa Bob: Enter the bear hunter's friend, son and servant. They want to free Baumann from the hands of the Indians.
  10. Saxon banter: The language and knowledge dispute between Jemmy and Frank is deliciously entertaining.
  11. Brake and the vultures escape: Brake frees himself during the Saxon banter, is caught again by Bob and threatened with a knife by Wokadeh. He whines for mercy and is scornfully chased away with his people.
  12. Wokadeh's message: Wokadeh is happy about his release and tells what the Ogellallah are planning to do with Baumann and the Prospectors: They should die on the stake . You set out for liberation.

Second picture: Valley between the Yellowstone River and the Bighorn Mountains

  1. In Dangerous Territory: Winnetou and Old Shatterhand meet and realize they are in dangerous territory. The Shoshone also dug up the hatchet. Their great medicine , the sacred belt, was stolen from them.
  2. A struggle for language: Frank and Jemmy are arguing again about language and correct historical knowledge. Frank is very sarcastic, but believes he speaks the purest German and confuses all possible linguistic and historical terms.
  3. Encounters: Led by Wohkadeh, Davy, Martin, Juggle Fred and Bob appear on their horses in the background of the gorge. You meet Frank, Jemmy and Old Shatterhand, the three Saxons, with a big hello.
  4. Dangers from all sides: Winnetou appears and reports: The great procession of the Shoshone has split up. The red warriors approach the valley from all four directions of the wind, from north and east, from south and west.
  5. With cunning and skirmishes: Old Shatterhand has a cunning plan that is also based on splitting up and bluffing the Indians. Frank and Jemmy resume their banter.
  6. Confrontation with the Shoshone: The Shoshone appear with war cries. The western people don't want to be treated like nameless dogs. Davy speaks for the group: The chief may call the chiefs together for a big consultation. Then they will obey the chief's verdict. On one condition: The group wants to await the chiefs' verdict free and unbound.
  7. Dialog between Frank and Bob during the big consultation: Frank scares Bob with his talk about scalping and torture stakes.
  8. The intervention of the heroes: Winnetou grabs the chief's son, Shatterhand penetrates the chief's tent and overpowers him. He demands free withdrawal for himself and all prisoners. The chief feels the shame of defeat and demands death for himself and his son.
  9. A duel as a judgment of God: Instead of the hopeless fight against the angry warriors, Shatterhand offers a duel with the chief.
  10. Surreal dialogue about the Rubicon: In view of the courageous path that Shatterhand is now taking, a surreal dialogue develops between Frank and Jemmy about the Rubicon , which the author Leisner uses for a latently anti-Semitic joke about Rubi (n) and Cohn .
  11. The duel: In a duel, Shatterhand renounces the knife and knocks down the chief of the Shoshone with his fist.
  12. The disclosure of names: The disclosure of the names of the heroes and their companions preserves the faces of the chief and his son. They were defeated by famous fighters and need not be ashamed.
  13. A risky plan: Martin Baumann wants to ride ahead and is reprimanded by Shatterhand because it could put everyone in danger. Nevertheless, Martin, accompanied by Frank and Bob, his father's friend and servant, secretly sets off.
  14. Discovering the plan and smoking the peace pipe: Martin's arbitrariness arouses Shatterhand's displeasure. But he takes the time to smoke the pipe of peace with the Shoshone, and then leaves with the others to help the Baumanns.

Third picture: At the Feuerloch river in the valley of the Teufelswasser

  1. Vulture's perfidious plans: At the scene of the evil deed (this is where the murder of the three Ogellallah warriors took place) Brake and his tramps want to ambush the others.
  2. Encounter at Hell's Mouth: At the edge of Hell's Mouth, Martin and his group meet Winnetou, who discovered the traces of the white murderer and his people. The group is captured and tied up by the tramps.
  3. Escape skills: With a trick, Juggle Fred manages to trick Brake into an escape trick, as a result of which the whole band is tied up on the floor. Wokadeh is set free.
  4. The appearance of the Ogellallah: But now the Ogellallah appear with shouts of war and Brake curls up with them. The chief sees through this behavior.
  5. Wokadeh's confession: Wohkadeh confesses that he left the Ogellallah band to report to the bear slayer's son that his father has been captured. The chief wants to let Wokadeh, the traitor, and his friend Martin die a painful death together.
  6. Kae-i-tso swaps places with Wokadeh: Wokadeh's sister has sneaked up secretly and swaps places with her captured brother so that he can help save the group with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand.
  7. At the edge of hell's mouth: Martin and Kae-i-tso are led up the slope and up to the edge of the crater by some warriors. They are to be thrown down.
  8. Wokadeh, Winnetou and Old Shatterhand appear to the rescue: Wokadeh raises the rifle and shoots. The warrior who held Kae-i-tso falls to the ground. At the same moment more shots were fired from the heights of the rock. The war cries of the Shoshone can be heard from all sides, now appearing everywhere on the rocky heights. Shatterhand warns: Another fight is pointless.
  9. The admonition for peace: Shatterhand gives a great peace speech: The red brothers should stop waging war against one another. “The two chiefs approach each other and shake hands. At the same time, the oldest chiefs of the Ogellallah and the Shoshone gather in a wide semicircle. During solemn ceremonies, the medicine man lights the peace pipe and hands it to the chiefs. In the meantime, Shatterhand and his companions have rushed to the prisoners and freed them with a few knife cuts. Baumann embraces his son while Wohkadeh rushes towards his sister. "(Text book)
  10. A struggle on the precipice: Wokadeh and Brake are struggling with each other on the crater rim. Eventually Brake plunges into the depths. Wokadeh is avenged.
  11. The hatchet is buried, fires of peace light up: fires light up on the heights of the cliffs, while the warriors light brushwood torches. Shatterhand to the chiefs: “May my red brothers ride back to their hunting grounds. May you keep Manitus holy peace from this hour , Manitus people will live until all times! Howgh! "(Text book)
  12. Reconciliation and farewell: Frank and Jemmy get along after their endless arguments with an allusion to Schiller's Ode To Joy : “Your magic binds again what the lack of understanding shared; Frank and Jemmy are now brothers, our friendship is healed. ”(Textbook) Shatterhand and the chiefs say goodbye to each other.

Performances

The piece was played:

Press coverage

“It was a brilliant premiere. A great merit for this is due to artistic director Wulf Leisner. His many years of experience with the open-air stage were the guarantee for a well-engineered performance. "

- Kiel news

“Seldom has a Karl May performance in front of the natural backdrop of the Segeberger Kalkberg exerted as much visual appeal as this year. The action runs like a colorful film in front of the audience, a film in which every image was carefully worked out and illuminated. "

- Segeberger newspaper

"When fiery volcanoes and fountains from geysers shoot up into the air in the valley of the firewater , then the Wild West in Bad Segeberg is perfect."

- Ruhr news

“Wulf Leisner tailored his staging and dramatization very precisely to the large open-air theater. How he alternates adventure and humor, romance and ethnology, that makes sense and plays. The dances, based on old folkloristic models and music, are very excellent. "

- Hamburger Echo

TV broadcast

The NDR filmed a 70-minute TV version of the play on July 20, 1962, which deviated massively from the stage version actually shown.

Others

Nicolas Finke proved that Constantin's film plans at the same time influenced the play. The main cause was the blocking options of the film company in the contract with Karl May Verlag as the licensor, which the latter tried to enforce against the TV broadcast of the play.

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  • Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the play
  • Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the premiere
  • Entry in the Karl May Wiki on the content (of the novel!)

Text book

  • Wulf Leisner : Among vultures (The bear hunter's son). An open-air play based on the motifs of the travel story of the same name by Karl Mays , Norderstedt: sales office and publishing house for German stage writers and stage composers, no year (1962)

literature

  • Nicolas Finke: Orient & Balkan on the stage - example Bad Segeberg: A historical picture arch 1955–1978 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 90/2002, pp. 40-42.
  • Nicolas Finke: The mute Old Shatterhand. In: Karl May & Co. No. 129/2012.
  • 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. 68 ff.
  • Peter Zastrow, Hans-Werner Baurycza: A city plays Indians. From the early years of the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg . In: Segeberger Blätter Volume 2, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gunther_Schüler
  2. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gisela_Gressmann
  3. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Albert_Lichtenfeld
  4. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Leo_Masuth
  5. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerd_Teller
  6. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Herbert_G._Doberauer
  7. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giere_(Bad_Segeberg_1967)
  8. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_(Dinslaken_1965/66)
  9. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_(Der_Sohn_des_Bärenjägers)_(Greifensteine_2006)
  10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_(Der_Sohn_des_Bärenjägers)_(Greifensteine_2007)
  11. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_(Der_Sohn_des_Bärenjägers)_(Greifensteine_2008)
  12. ↑ a b c d Quoted from: Reinhard Marheinecke u. a .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 73.
  13. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7296658/
  14. ↑ Finke: Der stumme Old Shatterhand , p. 40 ff.