Waldröschen (stage version)
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| Title: | The forest rose or the chase around the world |
| Genus: | melodramatic picture sheet |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Götz Loepelmann , Astrid Fischer-Windorf |
| Literary source: | Ramon Diaz de la Escosura ( Karl May ): Wood florets |
| Publishing year: | 1977 |
| Premiere: | October 23, 1977 |
| Place of premiere: | Schauspielhaus Hannover am Ballhof |
| Place and time of the action: | Germany, Spain, Mexico in the 2nd half of the 19th century |
| Director of the premiere | Götz Loepelmann |
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The forest rose or the chase around the world. A melodramatic sheet of pictures by Karl May is the title of a play based on the Karl May novel Waldröschen , which premiered on October 23, 1977 in the Hanover Theater.
the novel
General
Karl May published the Kolportag novel Waldröschen or the avenger hunt around the earth under the pseudonym Capitain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura in the publishing house HG Münchmeyer in Dresden . The subtitle was: Great Revelatory Novel on the Secrets of Human Society . The novel appeared in 109 sequels from December 1882 to August 1884 and comprised 2,612 pages. The pseudonym was a condition of Karl May, whose name was already known through other publications and who did not want to be associated with these delivery novels.
- “Münchmeyer had a personal preference for the meaningless title 'Das Waldröschen'. I also went into this, but was careful not to make any other concessions to him. "
The first edition was provided with illustrations (one for each issue). Each chapter was introduced by a poem.
content
The German doctor Karl Sternau succeeds in healing the Spanish Count Emanuel de Rodriganda and marrying his daughter Rosa de Rodriganda. But Gasparino Cortejo, the count's villainous steward, long ago exchanged his own son for the count's heir in order to get the Rodrigandas' property into his hands. He lures Sternau to Mexico , where he locks him in an old pyramid. Sternau managed to escape, but was abandoned after some back and forth with friends on a lonely island. They are only freed many years later, only to be captured and held again after some back and forth in the monastery della Barbara. Finally, Lieutenant Kurt Helmers, the fiancé of Sternau's daughter, the "forest rose", can free his future father-in-law. The great reunification of the separated families Helmers, de Rodriganda, von Olsunna etc. follows.
In this story, Karl May integrated the dispute between the European-appointed Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (Archduke Maximilian of Austria) and the Mexican President Benito Juárez . He clearly sided with the Indian Juarez. He depicts the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as a person of integrity, but wrongly advised. The figure of the bourgeois lieutenant Kurt Helmers, who is an affront to the arrogant nobles of his regiment, is also remarkable.
Persons (in selection)
De Rodriganda family
- Manfredo : is a Spanish count. He has two sons, Emanuel and Ferdinando. Manfredo de Rodriganda is an impressive figure; he wears bleached hair, has a dark complexion and a strong, dignified appearance. After the death of his wife he was transferred to the East Indies , lived there for a long time as the viceroy of Spain and became very wealthy. Although he is otherwise no longer fond of female charms, he falls in love with the easy-going dancer Hanetta Valdez and wants to marry her. Shortly before the wedding, his son Ferdinando, also one of Valdez's lovers, tells him about the dancer's lifestyle. When the count then finds this in the arms of Henrico Cortejo, who also loves Valdez, he shoots Cortejo and, when he also wants to shoot Hanetta, is shot by her in the chest, which, however, by Gasparino Cortejo, the son of the slain Cortejo , is reported as suicide as no other witnesses were present.
- Emanuel : is a very wealthy Spanish count who resides at Rodriganda Castle. His father was Manfredo de Rodriganda, his younger brother is Ferdinando de Rodriganda. He is a widower (his wife was née Cordobilla ) and has three children: two sons and a daughter. His eldest son died in Madrid while he was preparing for an officer career (only mentioned), his second son, Alfonzo, was given to Mexico as a toddler to inherit his childless uncle - but he is on his way there against Alfonzo , Gasparino Cortejo's son, swapped. The daughter, Rosa, lives with her father. At the beginning of the novel, Count Emanuel is suffering from a stone disease and cataracts . His underhanded son and his father, the Count's administrator, Gasparino Cortejo, have hired doctors who want to perform an operation on the Count that is said to be fatal. Karl Sternau can prevent this and carry out the operation successfully; the blindness of the count is cured of Sternau. But the count's adversaries manage to administer a poison that drives him insane. In this state he is supposed to be thrown down a rock face. However, this is prevented by Zarba, who has the insane count transported by her gypsies to her accomplice Gabrillon in Avranches , in order to keep Cortejo in hand. There, under the name Anselmo Marcello , the count was held captive in a lighthouse for a while until Otto von Rodenstein discovered and freed him. After that, the count lived with his daughter in Rheinswalden for many years until Karl Sternau, who had meanwhile become his son-in-law, was able to give him the antidote.
- Ferdinando : is a Mexican count and landowner. He is one of the richest men in Mexico. His father was Manfredo de Rodriganda, his older brother is Emanuel de Rodriganda. Since he is the younger son of the family, after the death of his father, whose love for Hanetta Valdez he shared, he did not get the Spanish but the Mexican possessions of the Rodrigandas. These are worth 40 million. Alfonzo de Rodriganda, his brother's son, is said to be brought to him as a toddler so that he will later become heir to the childless Ferdinando. Before the crossing, the child is exchanged for the wrong Alfonzo, the son of Gasparino Cortejo. The Cortejos, especially his administrator, Pablo Cortejo, also forge intrigues against Count Ferdinando. To save the honor of the Rodrigandas, Count Ferdinando has to duel with Count Embarez for Alfonzo. Before the duel , he changes his will, which Count Alfonzo had previously named as the main heir, and hands the new will to Maria Hermoyes. However, he survived the duel, albeit injured. Pablo Cortejo gives him, who is now 50 years old, a poison that makes him seem dead. Officially the cause of death is tetanus . During the rigidity, his hair turns gray. After his funeral he was taken over by Henrico Landola, who did not kill him - as was his mission - but sold him as a slave to the Sultan von Härrär . In Härrär, Ferdinando meets Bernardo Mendosa and Emma Arbellez, who are also the sultan's slaves. They flee together and are rescued by Captain Wagner. Ferdinando buys a ship from the treasures he took with him to flee from the Sultan, with which he and Emma pick up Karl Sternau and his companions from the lonely island in the South Sea to which they were abandoned by Landola and where they had to live for 16 years. Back in Mexico, Ferdinando is injured in the head by a French soldier in Fort Guadeloupe , then captured by Manfredo, the nephew of Father Hilarios, and taken to the della Barbara monastery in Santa Jaga, in whose vaults he is held until Kurt Helmers finally frees him. He then moves to his brother in Rheinswalden.
- Rosa : is the daughter of Count Emanuel de Rodriganda and therefore a Spanish Contezza. During a stay in Paris , she met Karl Sternau and fell in love with him. She asks him for help because she suspects her brother Alfonzo and her father's administrator, Gasparino Cortejo, of wanting to have their sick father killed by an unsuitable operation - which she is right about. Sternau can help her father. But shortly afterwards the Count of the Cortejos was driven insane by poison. The same thing happens to her while Sternau is thrown into a prison. After his liberation, he can kidnap Rosa from the pen in which the deranged woman was put and heal her. Sternau brings her to his mother in Rheinswalden and marries her. Shortly after the wedding, Sternau sets out to clarify the fate of the de Rodriganda family. He's missing for sixteen years. However, Rosa waits patiently for him and devotes herself to raising their daughter. Because of her husband's descent from Duke Eusebio von Olsunna, which Sternau only learned about after his return, Rosa became Duchess of Olsunna.
- Alfonzo : is the rightful son of Count Emanuel de Rodriganda and brother of Rosa de Rodriganda. He looks very much like his father. Gasparino Cortejo and his lover, Clarissa Margony, had him exchanged for their own son when he was about four years old. However, the criminal who swapped the children (Manuel Sertano) did not kill the boy as his assignment was, but took him with him into the mountains. There he was raised by a band of robbers under the name Mariano . He was given a special upbringing as one wanted to use him for crimes in the better society. He plays the guitar masterfully, writes poetry and composes his own songs. Only at the age of 22 does he find out about his aristocratic origin. He goes to Rodriganda Castle under the code name Alfred de Lautreville to find out. There he meets Amy Lindsay, with whom he falls in love. Amy and Rosa are saved from robbers by Mariano, who is an excellent marksman, fencer and rider. He himself is kidnapped by Henrico Landola at Gasparino Cortejo's instigation. However, this does not kill him, but lets him languish in the bilge of his ship for a long time. Karl Sternau can finally free him in the Caribbean . He meets Amy Lindsay again and they get engaged. Mariano then falls together with Sternau and his companions again into the hands of Landola, who abandons everyone on a lonely island in the South Sea, from which they are only rescued after 16 years. After this liberation, Mariano Sternau follows to Mexico to clarify the affairs of de Rodriganda there. Mariano and his friends are captured by Father Hilario and locked in underground cloister vaults. Kurt Helmers then helps everyone achieve ultimate freedom. Mariano resp. Alfonzo de Rodriganda marries Amy and, as the de Rodriganda's legal heir, resides in his Spanish castle.
Cortejo family
- Henrico : was the father of Pablo and Gasparino Cortejo. He was the administrator of the estate of Count Manfredo de Rodriganda in Spain . He is a youthfully beautiful womanizer in the strongest male years. The dancer Hanetta Valdez loves him, although she also has intimate contact with other men (Duke Eusebio von Olsunna, Manfredo and Ferdinando de Rodriganda). He loves her too, even though he's married. His wife is "a sick, miserable woman who may not live long". Henrico Cortejo and Hanetta are caught and shot by Hanetta in a precarious situation shortly before their wedding to Manfredo de Rodriganda. His sons swore vengeance on the de Rodriganda family.
- Gasparino : is a Spanish lawyer and notary. He works as the administrator of Count Emanuel de Rodriganda. His father was Henrico Cortejo, who also worked as an administrator for the Counts of Rodriganda, but was shot out of jealousy by the then Count Manfredo de Rodriganda. Gasparino has two illegitimate sons, Tombi and Alfonzo. Alfonzo's mother is his longtime lover sister Clarissa . His brother is Pablo Cortejo and therefore he is the uncle of Josefa Cortejo.
- Clarissa Margony : is superior of the Carmelite monastery in Saragossa . She is the daughter of a Spanish nobleman and related to the Count de Rodriganda. She lives as the educator of Rosa de Rodriganda at Rodriganda Castle. About 20 years ago she left her family and lived as a milliner in Zaragoza with Gasparino Cortejo in concubinage . They have a son named Alfonzo. With Gasparino, Clarissa Margony arranged for the then four-year-old Alfonzo de Rodriganda to be exchanged for her son and is involved in many of her lover's crimes. It is she who administered poison to Rosa de Rodriganda. Sister Clarissa is sentenced to imprisonment after all crimes are discovered.
- Alfonzo : is the illegitimate son of Gasparino Cortejo and Clarissa Margony. He's a spendthrift and a coward; he keeps a diary of his villainy. Originally he probably had a different baptismal name, since - as Maria Hermoyes reports - initially he hardly listened to "Alfonzo". At the age of about four he was exchanged for the count's son Alfonzo de Rodriganda and grew up on the Mexican possessions of the Rodrigandas until he returned to Spain at the age of about 22. In Mexico he promises marriage to the Indian Karja in order to get to the royal treasure of the Miztecas , whose secret Karja knows. For this, his brother Tecalto hangs him from a tree over the crocodile pond on Mount El Reparo in revenge, but he escapes with the help of the Comanches . Returning to Spain, he tries to get the Rodrigandas' legacy by making Count Emanuel disappear with the help of his birth father and driving his supposed sister Rosa insane. When she is kidnapped by Karl Sternau, he pursues them both and hires Gérard Mason as a hit man.
- Pablo : is the administrator of Count Ferdinando de Rodriganda in Mexico and candidate for the office of Mexican President. His father was Henrico Cortejo; his brother is Gasparino Cortejo. He has been a widower for a long time and has a daughter named Josefa. He has a long, lean frame, pale, narrow lips and small eyes. While on a war campaign, the trapper Vulture's Beak knocked out one eye while fighting. With his brother he pursues the goal of establishing the subordinated Alfonzo as the heir to the huge fortune of the de Rodriganda. He hopes that his nephew Alfonzo will marry his daughter Josefa, so that she, who is significantly involved in his crimes, will also share in the wealth and power of the Rodrigandas. He makes Count Ferdinando seem dead with a poison and has Henrico Landola take him away. Then he forges the Count's will. He instigates gangs of murderers on his main opponent Karl Sternau. As a presidential candidate, he fights - with the support of Juan Alvarez - against Benito Juárez . Pablo Cortejo fails miserably with his political ventures and then falls with his seriously injured daughter first into the hands of Father Hilario, then into the Sternaus. In view of the painful death of his daughter, Pablo Cortejo confesses his crimes and is shot.
- Josefa : is the daughter of Pablo Cortejo, who adores her, and grew up in Mexico. She is instrumental in all of her father's crimes. Josefa Cortejo genuinely loves her cousin Alfonzo. When he harshly rejects her, she turns her affection to Mariano, who shows no interest in her despite her suggestion that he can help clarify his parentage. In revenge, she incites Juan Alvarez on Mariano's lover, Amy Lindsay, and her father. She “supports” her father's presidential candidacy by distributing her picture to her father's supporters. Due to the chaos of war, Josefa Cortejo was given control of the hacienda del Erina for a short time, where she had the old Petro Arbellez brutally flogged. The vaquero Antonio punishes her for this by kicking her, which probably breaks some ribs that one of her mercenaries tries to set up inappropriately. She does not recover from the internal injuries suffered as a result. They hang the bear heart and buffalo forehead on a branch over a crocodile pond. However, she is saved by Grandeprise. Later she and her father fall into the hands of Father Hilario; then to the Karl Sternaus. She is in constant pain from the injuries. These eventually become so unbearable that she confesses her misdeeds during interrogation; then she dies in agony.
Sternau family
- Karl Sternau : His father is Duke Eusebio von Olsunna, who coerced Fraulein Wilhelmi, who was employed by him. Karl Sternau thus has two half-sisters, Helene Sternau and Flora von Olsunna. He later lived in Rheinswalden with his cousin, the chief forester Kurt von Rodenstein. In Paris, where he was staying with his teacher, Professor Charles Francois Letourbier, he met and fell in love with Rosa de Rodriganda. There Sternau saved Annette Mason from drowning. After Rosa's cry for help, he rushed to Spain and was just able to prevent Gasparino Cortejo and his son Alfonzo, who is considered the Count's son, from having an operation carried out on Count Emanuel de Rodriganda, Rosa's father, that would lead to the Count's death should. Sternau successfully operated on the count, who was sick with a stone disease, and was also able to cure his blindness. The count then plans to offer him a permanent position. From now on, Cortejo seeks his life; he hires bandits who attack Sternau but are killed by Sternau. Sternau sees through all the criminal machinations of the Cortejos; so he knows that the count was maddened by poison and should be eliminated, but this was not carried out in the sense of the Cortejos. He also knows that Cortejo had the Count's real son exchanged for his own son. Cortejo then makes Sternau disappear in a prison in Barcelona, where Sternau learns that Count Ferdinando de Rodriganda has been sold as a slave to Härrär. With the help of Father Dominikaner, he escaped from prison and freed Rosa, who had meanwhile been maddened by a poison, by Cortejo and his lover, Clarissa Margony, healed her with an antidote and - after a detour via Paris and Cologne - brought her to Rheinswalden . In the meantime he is wanted for attempted murder, theft, kidnapping and membership in a band of robbers. In Rheinswalden he shows a grand ducal society together with little Kurt Helmers riding and shooting skills and shows them his henry socks and his bear killer. He marries Rosa, but leaves her again immediately to free Count Ferdinando. To this end, Sternau buys the steam yacht Sir Henry Lindsays, to which he gives the name "Rosa". With the armed steam yacht he wants to upset Henrico Landola, who is significantly involved in the crimes of the Cortejos against the de Rodriganda. In Avranches, Sternau meets his school friend Otto von Rodenstein, who leads him to the sick Duke Eusebio von Olsunna, whom Sternau can heal without both of them suspecting that they are father and son. In the Caribbean , Sternau found Landola and freed Mariano, the real son of Count Emanuel de Rodriganda. In order to prove his identity, he travels after the fake Alfonzo to the Hazienda del Erina, where Sternau can rescue Anton Helmers, who was seriously injured by Alfonzo. In Mexico , too , the Cortejos (Pablo Cortejo & Alfonzo) instigate assassinations against Sternau, whose Sternau, however, is able to defend itself; so z. B. by killing a whole band of robbers with gunshots in the forehead. When the criminals Verdoja and Pardero try to attack Karja and Emma Arbellez, he challenges them to a double duel in which he smashes their right hand or knocks them off. In revenge, Verdoja takes Sternau and his friends prisoner and wants to bring them into an old pyramid. Sternau is able to flee (he injures one of Verdoya's eyes) and free the friends. With these friends, including the Indian chiefs Tecalto ( buffalo forehead ) and Schosh-in-liett ( bear heart ), Sternau then falls into the hands of Landola, who abandons them all to a lonely island in the South Sea, where they have to wait for sixteen years to be rescued. After the liberation by Count Ferdinando de Rodriganda, who has since fled Härrär, Sternau wants to take revenge on the Cortejos in Mexico and finally prove Marianos identity. Sternau joins Benito Juárez, with whom he fights against the French and their emperor Maximilian. Sternau was able to provide Juárez with valuable services in taking Chihuahua , freed the Hacienda del Erina, which was occupied by Pablo Cortejo and his daughter, Josefa Cortejo, and captured the Cortejos. However, they can flee. During the persecution, Sternau falls into the hands of Father Hilario, who lets him and his companions disappear into the underground vaults of his monastery . Kurt Helmers, now grown up and in Mexico on a diplomatic mission, can free everyone. The Cortejos and Henrico Landola, who were also caught by Hilario, also fall into Sternau's hands. He lets Landola tickle until his mouth foams, because this foam is the antidote for Count Emanuel de Rodriganda, who is still insane and who Sternau heals when he finally returns to Rheinswalden. It is there that he meets his daughter Rosa (the eponymous forest rose ) for the first time . At the grand ducal masked ball in Rheinswalden, it is revealed to him that his biological father is the Duke of Olsunna and that he is his legal heir.
- Rosa Sternau (the forest rose ): is the daughter of Karl Sternau and Rosa de Rodriganda. She is only born after her father disappears. Her godparents are the Duchess of Olsunna, the Grand Duke Ludwig III. and the captain von Rodenstein. She lives with her mother in Rheinswalden, she only meets her father after his return from sixteen years of captivity. She loves her youth play, Kurt Helmers, who is six years older than her, who fights for her in a duel with Mr. von Ravenow, who insolently huddled into Rosa's car, but was confidently rebuked by her. She asks the Minister of War Albrecht von Roon not to take any action because of the duel. Her engagement to Kurt is announced at the grand ducal ball in Rheinswalden. She later lives with him and a daughter in a north German city. Her father's descent from Duke Eusebio von Olsunna makes her Princess of Olsunna.
Spaniards
- Juan Alimpo : is the castellan at Rodriganda Castle. He is married to Elvira and an uncle of Bernardo Mendosa. He is a small, scary male and comes from the village of Rodriganda. Already in the time of Manfredo de Rodriganda he was serving as his personal servant for the de Rodriganda family. In Saragossa he met his wife, with whom he lives in a very happy marriage. As an engagement gift, Count Manfredo gave him the post of castellan at Rodriganda Castle.
- Doctor Cielli : is the family doctor of the de Rodriganda family from Manresa . At the instigation of the fake Alfonzo, he is said to perform an operation on Emanuel de Rodriganda, which is scheduled to end with the patient's death. Karl Sternau prevents that. Cielli later found the count's alleged death in his role as the region's official forensic doctor.
- Doctor Francas : is a Spanish doctor from Madrid . On behalf of Alfonzo and Gasparino Cortejo, he is supposed to carry out a fatal operation on Count Emanuel de Rodriganda, which Karl Sternau prevents.
- Gabrillon : The lighthouse keeper of Avranches is a nerd, wearing a thick, shaggy beard. He lives on his lighthouse with an old, deaf woman who runs his household, and the maddened Count Emanuel de Rodriganda, whom he claims to be his cousin . He is in contact with the gypsy Zarba, who brought the count to him to hide him there. Otto von Rodenstein discovers the count with him and can rescue him with the help of the authorities. Gabrillon and Zarba are arrested on this occasion, but later freed by the Gypsies Zarbas.
- Hilario : Father Hilario, actually Ignaz Mandrillo , a former priest and former superior , is a doctor in the monastery della Barbara in Santa Jaga. Hilario is a dangerous and unscrupulous intriguer who operates under various aliases (Father Hilarius, Father Eusebio, Father Lorenzo); he is a particular enemy of Benito Juárez , who deposed him as head of the monastery. Depending on the advantage he calculates, he joins the various political directions. He has secret connections with all anti-Juarists. Under his real name, Ignaz Mandrillo, he was dismissed from the service of Count Ferdinando de Rodriganda by Pablo Cortejo, which is why he hates both of them. Hilario temporarily accommodates Juárez's spy Emilia, whose beauty and seduction skills he succumbs to so that she can discover his secrets and convey them to Juárez. In the subterranean vaults of the monastery, he gradually succeeds in capturing Karl Sternau, Mariano, Büffelstirn, Bärenherz, Anton Helmers, helmsman Helmers and little André with gas . Ferdinando de Rodriganda, Pablo Cortejo, his daughter Josefa, Gasparino Cortejo and Henrico Landola also come under his control. (All of Hilario's prisoners are freed by Kurt Helmers.) Hilario tries to kill all the residents of the Hacienda del Erina with poison, so that no research can be carried out on the disappeared, but this fails. Some time before he had also driven the Emperor Maximilian's wife , Charlotte , insane with a plant poison. On behalf of his organization, he successfully deceived the emperor through false reports in order to keep him in the country as long as possible, so that Juárez had no choice but to have the emperor shot. Kurt Helmers succeeds in capturing Father Hilario. In prison, Hilario suffers a stroke when he learns from Kurt Helmers and Karl Sternau that all his secrets have been betrayed.
- Henrico Landola : is an agent, captain and pirate with changing names. He is business partner and accomplice of Gasparino and Pablo Cortejo. His stepbrother is Grandeprise. Landola committed numerous crimes against the de Rodriganda family and their friends on behalf of the Cortejos. He procures the poison with which Emanuel and Rosa de Rodriganda are driven insane, lets Mariano languish in the bilge of his ship for a long time, sells Ferdinando de Rodriganda as a slave to the Sultan von Härrär and employs Karl Sternau and the helmsman Helmers, Anton Helmers and Emma Arbellez, Karja, Tecalto and Schosh-in-liett as well as Mariano, who has just been released, live on a lonely island in the South Sea from which they can only be released after 16 years.
- Eusebio von Olsunna : is a Spanish duke in Saragossa . As a member of the highest nobility and one of the richest men in the country, as a 24-year-old widower (his daughter Flora is just three years old), he leads the life of a libertine, although he is considered a strict Catholic. His steward of the same age, Gasparino Cortejo, helps him with his amorous escapades. During the carnival , the Duke falls in love with Miss Wilhelmi, whom he hires as governess for his daughter in order to lure her into his house. There he lets her give her a love potion and rapes her. She escapes him and marries the teacher Sternau, who genuinely loves her and who takes the child born out of the rape (Karl Sternau) as his own. The Duke is now courting the dancer Hanetta Valdez, who, however, disappears after the death of Count Manfredo de Rodriganda, a rival of the Duke. Many years later, the Duke is on a cure in Avranches . His illness is reported as emaciation; however, it is implied that it is a disease that goes back to his previous dissolute lifestyle. He thinks he's going to die and regrets his life so far. He manufactures u. a. a will that takes into account the illegitimate son and confesses to his daughter. He approves that Flora wants to enter into a relationship with Otto von Rodenstein, the exiled son of the chief forester Kurt von Rodenstein from Rheinswalden. The engagement takes place in Avranches. When Karl Sternau, whom Otto knows, turns up in Avranches, he is asked for his medical advice. He describes the Duke's suffering as scabies and prescribes remedies that lead to healing. He advises him to take a cure and sends him to Rheinswalden. At this point in time, Sternau and the Duke do not know that they are father and son. After the Duke found out about this through Otto's tales of the fate of the then Fraulein Wilhelmi, he made contact with her, then traveled to Rheinswalden, asks her (the now widowed Frau Sternau) for forgiveness and asked for her hand so that he could be Karl Sternau legal heir becomes.
- Hanetta Valdez : is a prima ballerina in Saragossa . She descends from poor, obscure parents. Henrico Cortejo and Duke Eusebio von Olsunna love them. However, Hanetta Valdez only loves Cortejo. Nevertheless, she gives Count Manfredo de Rodriganda her yes-word when he falls in love with her after attending one of her performances and offers her the marriage. In the meantime she gives herself incognito to the count's son, Ferdinando de Rodriganda, without knowing him. Shortly before the wedding, Ferdinando tells his father about Hanetta Valdez, who then catches her in Cortejo's arms. The count kills Cortejo. When she tries to shoot her, she kills the count. Gasparino Cortejo, Henrico's son, portrays the Count's death as a suicide.
The imperial couple of Mexico
- Maximilian of Mexico : Karl May includedthe events of the fall and execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexicoin a part of the forest rose . Some of the main characters try to use their advisors to influence that Maximilian realizes his defeat in time and leaves the country; other main characters meet President Juárez personally and help capture the enemy.
- Empress Charlotte : Supposedly, a few drops of toloachi - procured or manufactured by Father Hilario - drove the Empress Charlotte of Mexico insane.
Indians / Mexicans
- Amaika : is an old Indian who serves Josefa Cortejo very devotedly as a maid. She has a daughter from a white man who she has included in her plans and used as Duenna for Amy Lindsay.
- Bear's eye : Shosheinta is a chief of the Jicarilla Apache and the younger brother of Schosh-in-liett ( bear heart ), whom he looks like. He is young and wears New Mexican clothing. In revenge for his brother's inexplicable disappearance, he scalps a white man every week. For Benito Juárez he fights against the French and Comanches at Fort Guadeloupe, where he meets his brother again.
- Bärenherz : Schosh-in-liett is the friend and companion of Karl Sternau and Anton Helmers. He is 28 years old, has sharp, bold features and a penetrating eye. Schosh-in-liett loves Karja, the sister of his friend Tecalto. Karja and Emma Arbellez are freed from the hands of Comanches by him and von Helmers. He then falls into the hands of the Comanches and is hung over a crocodile pond, but can break free. Together with Karl Sternau, Karja, Emma Arbellez, Anton Helmers, his brother and Buffalo forehead, Schosh-in-liett is caught by Henrico Landola and released on a lonely island in the South Sea, where he and the others have to wait for rescue for 16 years. He lives there with Karja as a wife. Back in Mexico he fights for Benito Juárez in the battle of Fort Guadeloupe, but is then captured with the others by Father Hilario and held in the underground vaults of the della Barbara monastery in Santa Jaga until all are freed by Kurt Helmers. He takes part in the masked ball in Rheinswalden.
- Benito Juárez : plays a prominent supporting role at times in the part of the forest rose that is played in Mexico. Karl May included the events surrounding the overthrow and execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico . Some of the main characters even meet the President of Mexico personally and actively help in capturing the enemy.
- Karja : is the beautiful sister of Büffelstirn, the chief of the Miztecas. Together with her friend Emma Arbellez, she is freed from the hands of the Comanches by Bärenherz and Anton Helmers. She loves the fake Count Alfonzo de Rodriganda, who promises her marriage in order to get the legendary royal treasure of the Miztecas. Only after revealing the secret of this treasure does she realize that he has betrayed her. She renounces him and swears revenge. Together with her friend Emma and others, she is kidnapped by the villains Verdoja and his accomplices and imprisoned in an old pyramid. There she vigorously asserts herself against Pardero, one of Verdoya's accomplices, and first shoots his jaw before she stabs him. Karl Sternau frees the prisoners. She becomes engaged to Bärenherz and is kidnapped together with her companions by Henrico Landola to a lonely island in the South Sea. After 16 years they are freed by Emma Arbellez and Ferdinando de Rodriganda. After the big showdown in Rheinswalden, she returns home with her brother and Bärenherz.
Jews
- Levi Hirsch : is the Jewish owner of a clothes shop in Mainz. He is married to Sarah Hirsch. Hirsch advises Trapper Vulture Beak, who wants to travel incognito, and sells him a very colorful, ill-matching suit and various items of equipment such as hat, shoes, glasses, sheet music and musical instruments. Since he demands excessive prices, Vulture beak reciprocates by getting him to buy his discarded suit (allegedly made of sloth wool and supposedly with ten-dollar notes in his pocket) for a lot of money.
- Sarah Hirsch : is the wife of Levi Hirsch.
robber
The band of robbers in the Pyrenees consists largely of distressed Spaniards and has been under the same leader for at least twenty years. They live in a cave in the mountains. The Capitano accepts orders from Gasparino Cortejo. The gang consists of
- the captain, called Capitano (who is shot by Gasparino Cortejo);
- the Father Dominican ;
- Mariano , who never swore the robbery;
- Juanito and Henricord (die in the attack on Rosa de Rodriganda);
- at least three other gang members who are killed by Karl Sternau in the unsuccessful attack on Karl Sternau;
- a robber who is elected as the new captain.
A former member is Manuel Sertano . The gang is decimated considerably in the course of the novel, but still includes at least 30 people.
Gypsies
- Zarba : is seduced by Gasparino Cortejo, who does not keep the marriage promise given to her. Her son Tombi comes from him. Zarba got Cortejo a love potion, with which his employer at the time, Duke Eusebio von Olsunna, made governess Wilhelmi compliant with his sexual desires. When she realizes what has happened to her, she wants to take her own life. Zarba, feeling guilty, saves her and nurses her back to health. She also took care of the protection of the child, Karl Sternau, for decades. A quarter of a century later, she appears to be still Cortejo's ally, but is in fact thwarting Cortejo's intentions in order to avenge the injustice it once suffered. She often visited Rosa de Rodriganda and prophesied to her. She also recommended her that Dr. To consult Sternau as a doctor, which thwarted Cortejo's plans. When Cortejo ordered her to let Count Emanuel de Rodriganda, who had previously been maddened with poison, fall from a rock to his death, she instead brought him to a safe hiding place in Avranches. She also pursues the Duke of Olsunna with hatred, but he escapes her revenge when he regrets his misdeeds and begins a new life.
Prussia
- Bismarck : In the Kolportag novel Waldröschen , Bismarck appears as the powerful patron of the bourgeois guard officer Kurt Helmers. The Prussian King Wilhelm I also takes the trapper Geierschnabel to an important meeting with him.
- Kurt Helmers : is a first lieutenant at the General Staff in Berlin . The guard in Berlin, which is only formed by aristocrats, treats him, the commoners, insultingly and ruthlessly. However, he knows how to gain respect by making his main offenders, Colonel von Winslow and Lieutenant von Ravenow, incapacitated in a double duel: he shoots one in the right hand, the other he cuts off the right hand with a saber. Fortunately, Kurt Helmers succeeds in handing over the secret papers of Henrico Landola, acting as a Spanish agent in Berlin, and the Russian spy Helbitoff to the authorities. As a result, he comes into the field of vision of Otto von Bismarck and King Wilhelm I. Kurt is first sent to Russia (only mentioned) and then to Mexico to help Emperor Maximilian escape. Before that, Kurt Helmers got engaged to Rosa Sternau. He travels to Mexico in the company of the trapper Vulture Beak. There both Gasparino Cortejo and Henrico Landola follow. Kurt Helmers frees his father, who was held captive by Father Hilario, his uncle, Karl Sternau and their companions in suffering. He cannot complete his diplomatic mission successfully because the emperor does not want to be saved. After the de Rodriganda family's affairs in Mexico have been settled, he returns to Rheinswalden with the Liberated and marries Rosa. He then lives with his wife and a daughter as a colonel in a north German city.
- Captain Wagner : He rescues Ferdinando de Rodriganda, Emma Arbellez and Bernardo Mendosa, who fled their captivity in Härrär, and then drives with them to the lonely South Sea island on which Karl Sternau and his companions, abandoned by Landola, have lived for sixteen years. Wagner brings everyone to Mexico and is then supposed to drive around Cape Horn to Vera Cruz. In Rio de Janeiro he meets Landola and Gasparino Cortejo, who are in disguise. He takes them to Vera Cruz, where - only after they have disembarked - does his sailor Peters find out who he was transporting.
- Wilhelm von Prussia : Kurt Helmers brings the Prussian king the secret paper on France's policy against Prussia, which he had seized from Henrico Landola, who was spying in Berlin. Helmers thereby acquired the benevolence of Wilhelm I, who made him a knight of the 2nd class of the Order of the Red Eagle. The King Trapper Vulture Beak, who penetrates right up to him, jovially leads to Otto von Bismarck.
- Colonel von Winslow : is a Prussian baron . He is a colonel and regimental commander in the Guard in Berlin. Von Winslow is married. As the superior of Kurt Helmers, he behaves insultingly towards him and is challenged by Kurt, together with his favorite Hugo von Ravenow, to a duel in which he loses a hand. Since he was not wounded while on duty, he is dismissed without a pension, and only Helmers' influence saves him from a prison sentence. Later he clashes with Trapper Vulture's beak on the train and is temporarily arrested at his instigation.
Places of action (selection)
In Germany
- Berlin : Kurt Helmers serves in Berlin for some time. The Duke Eusebio of Olsunna has a palace there. In the “Magdeburger Hof”, Helmers uncovered a spy. In the Castle Monbijou is given then in his honor, a soirée.
- Rheinswalden : The fictional Rheinswalden Castle is located near Mainz and is the residence of the chief forester and former captain of the Landwehr Kurt von Rodenstein in Waldröschen . In addition to Kurt von Rodenstein and the forest assistant Ludewig - other employees are the two sub-foresters Wendelin and Stengler as well as the boys Kurt, Heinrich and Wilhelm - also Ms. Sternau and her daughter Helene live there. Rosa de Rodriganda married Sternau, her daughter Rosa and Count Emanuel de Rodriganda complete the company. Rheinswalden is the central point to which the Kolporta novel always leads back after excursions into the wide world. The grand ducal masked ball once again brings all the heroes in Rheinswalden together, unties the last knots and thus ends the novel.
In France
- Avranches : is a French port city in Normandy . Not far from Avranches is the Gabrillon lighthouse where Emanuel de Rodriganda was hidden by Zarba. A mineral spring was recently developed in Avranches, so that the place became a health resort and was expanded with promenades. The fisherman Jean Foretier rented his house to the sick Eusebio von Olsunna. The notary Belltoucheur also works in Avranches.
In Spain
- Cave of the Brigantes (in the rocky landscape of Maladeta ): The cave of the band of robbers is in the Spanish Pyrenees . This is where Mariano, the real son of the count de Rodriganda, grows up among the brigands (" Brigands ") who exchanged him as a toddler, but did not murder him. The entrance to the cave is hidden in an open rock basin. It consists of several rooms and chambers. The walls of the "cell" of the captain ( Capitano ) are hung with precious weapons. There is a secret compartment in one wall.
- Madrid : live or have lived in Spain's capital: Dr. Francas, Sir Henry Lindsay. Hanetta Valdez and Ferdinando de Rodriganda meet incognito in Madrid.
- Saragossa : The Duke Eusebio von Olsunna had a palace in Strada Domenica No. 10, in which Gasparino Cortejo was also employed as steward. On the other side of the Ebro, the banker Salmonno has a town house. Here at Strada el Amenio No. 15, up a flight of stairs, lived Clarissa Margony as the - alleged - cleaner. Manfredo de Rodriganda also has a town house here. His household includes a. Henrico Cortejo and Juan Alimpo. Hanetta Valdez was prima ballerina for a while at the local theater. Your servant is Elvira.
- Rodriganda Castle : The fictional castle is located near the village of Rodriganda, an hour's ride from Manresa in the province of Barcelona , and is the ancestral castle of the Counts de Rodriganda. This is where the intricate plot of the colportage novel Waldröschen begins .
In Mexico
- El Reparo : is the sacred mountain of the Miztecas and is four miles west of the Hacienda del Erina. It almost looks like a long, high dam. Its steep slope is mostly covered with iron trees. Three streams flow from it into the valley. The middle one does not form an open source, but emerges from the rock at least three feet wide and four feet deep. This is the entrance to the royal treasure cave. There is a narrow, low gorge behind bushes near the entrance where horses can be accommodated. On the mountain there is a device to give a widely visible fire sign, which is a sign of the assembly for the Miztecas. Three fireworks hidden nearby and ignited during the fire sign are the sign that the assembly place is on Mount El Reparo itself. On the mountain - surrounded by ruins - there is also the crocodile pond.
- Fort Guadeloupe : The Llano Estacado goes with its western edge almost to the Rio Puerco, which is a tributary of the Rio Grande del Norte . Fort Guadeloupe is located on this Rio Puerco. In 1866/67 it was attacked by French troops and the residents and Dr. Sternau and his companions defended. The Apache warriors, led by Bear's Eye, rush to the aid of the fort's residents.
- Hacienda del Erina : is located in northern Mexico, on the slopes of the Coahuila mountains . The next major city is Saltillo . Neighbors include Verdoja and the owner of the Hacienda Vandaqua. The hacienda is owned by the de Rodriganda family and leased to Petro Arbellez by Don Ferdinando de Rodriganda. The associated property covers an area of twenty geographic square miles. In his will, Ferdinando de Rodriganda donated the hacienda to Petro Arbellez, who can prove this with a document. In the late summer of 1866, the Hacienda del Erina was a stage stop for the French. It is stormed and taken possession of by around 300 supporters of the pretender Pablo Cortejo and the "Panther of the South". Josefa Cortejo stays on the hacienda with a small squad of occupiers. It is then of the Miztecas under Chief Buffalo forehead recaptured.
- Monastery della Barbara : The monastery is located a little outside of Santa Jaga (near the northern border of the Mexican province of Zacatecas ) and - after secularization - is now a hospital or care center for the mentally ill. It is looked after by the former priest Father Hilario and his nephew Manfredo. There are numerous old vaults, rooms and secret passages under the monastery. Father Hilario has a detailed plan of the complex. In the hidden cells, Hilario imprisoned Karl Sternau and his companions and their opponent Pablo Cortejo for weeks. Of course there is also a secret exit from the monastery area.
- Mexico City : near the paseo is the palace of Ferdinando de Rodriganda. Maria Hermoyes, among others, live here; his nephew, Count Alfonzo; Pablo Cortejo and some servants (e.g. Arnoldo). The Viscount de Lorriere and Count Embarez also live in Mexico City. Sir Henry Lindsay also has a “palazzo” as envoy. He and Karl Sternau promenade on the " Alameda " (poplar avenue). The cemetery is at the gates of the city. On it, in a mausoleum with Corinthian columns and an iron gate, is the hereditary burial of the Rodrigandas, in which so far only Ferdinando de Rodriganda (and this also not really) rests.
- Santiago de Querétaro : (short: Querétaro ) is a city in central Mexico and the capital of the state of the same name. In 1867 the place where Emperor Maximilian stayed wasbesiegedby Juárez's troopsand - after the betrayal of Colonel Miguel Lopez - captured. The emperor and his generals Miramon and Mejia were executed in Querétaro, on the Cerro de las campanas .
- Pond of the crocodiles : The pond is located in the middle of temple ruins on the El Reparo mountain. Some very old and very hungry crocodiles live in the pond . An old cedar grows on the bank of the pond, which is ideal for hanging people over the lake. Both Count Alfonzo and Bärenherz are assigned this type of death, the former from Tecalto, Karja's brother, and the latter from the Comanches, but unsuccessful in both cases as both are freed in time. Josefa Cortejo is also hung over the crocodiles by Tecalto and Donnerpfeil to get them to talk, but freed from her father and Grandeprise. The hungry crocodiles have to be satisfied with the enemies killed by the two friends.
In the Caribbean
- “La Pendola” : aka “Lion” is Henrico Landola's ship. If necessary, it pulls up black sails and turns from the Spanish-American merchant “La Pendola” to the pirate ship “Lion”. At the Pedro Bank , off the coast of Jamaica in the West Indian Sea , the ship is caught by the steam yacht "Rosa" and a British warship and is badly damaged. It is drilled and sunk on the spot after the load has been taken over.
- "Rosa" : is the name of a small steam yacht owned by Karl Sternau. It was originally called "The Fleeds" and is sold in Greenock , Scotland by attorney Emery Millner on behalf of Sir Henry Lindsay. Karl Sternau acquires it in order to find and attack Henrico Landola's "Pendola". Therefore get the "Pink" six cannon and two rotating cannons, called swivels . The craft had a speed of eighteen miles an hour and consumed two hundred pounds of coal during that time. Helmer's helmsman becomes the commanding officer. 14 sailors are hired.
In the South Seas
- South Sea Island : The South Sea island , which has remained nameless for a long time, will be home to Karl Sternau and his companions for 16 years. It is located east-southeast of Pitcairn . Henrico Landola knew this island and specifically chose it as a place of exile for Karl Sternau, Mariano, Steuermann Helmers, Anton Helmers, Bärenherz, Büffelstirn, Emma Arbellez and Karja. There are two springs on the island, fish, birds, small game and various fruits. During their stay, the exiles build a series of huts out of earth and twigs, the doors of which they cover with furs. They also manage to pull "trees" out of bushes and make a raft . When the raft breaks loose at night, Emma Arbellez is driven away with him and can later organize the heroes' liberation. Captain Wagner hoists the German flag when he is picking up the missing persons and takes possession of this small island in the name of the expected German emperor for his fatherland. He named her Rodriganda .
The play
starting point
In a leaflet to the 1977 text book it says:
- “This melodramatic arrangement was based on the extensive colportage novel KARL MAY - THE FOREST DRESSING OR THE PERSECUTION AROUND THE EARTH. It is the first great novel that Karl May conceived in the 1970s for the Kolportage publishing house Münchmeyer in Dresden . The fun of the subject prompted Götz Loepelmann and Astrid Fischer-Windorf to make a shorter adaptation for the stage . Of course, a whole series of scenes have been streamlined, people have been grouped into one actor in order to take account of the acting and acting conditions on the stage . The original text by Karl May was largely retained, but the accentuation and strokes of the editors give the text and later the staging itself additional charm. The arrangement carries elements of good comic theater as well as characteristics of the Commedia dell'arte with a good dash of popular theater . The enclosed illustrations and colored figurines also convey something of the theater fun to the reader. "
Scenes
The play consists of 44 scenes:
- Scene: Narrator (in front of the closed curtain)
- Scene: In Rodriganda. Day. (Manfredo, Alimpo)
- Scene: In the theater (Alimpo, Manfredo, 4 monks, 4 beggars)
- Scene: In the Valdez cloakroom. Night. (Hanetta, Manfredo, narrator)
- Scene: Enter Henrico Cortejo (Hanetta, Henrico Cortejo)
- Scene: In the café. Afternoon. (Hanetta, Manfredo)
- Scene: Narrator
- Scene: In Madrid. Evening night. (Hanetta, Ferdinando)
- Scene: In Rodriganda: wedding. Eve. (Manfredo, Emanuel, Ferdinando, Hanetta, Henrico Cortejo, Alimpo, priest, narrator)
- Scene: In Rodriganda. Afternoon. (Narrator, Sternau)
- Scene: In Rodriganda (Sternau, Rosa, Alfonzo, Count Emanuel, Dr. Francas, Dr. Cielli, Alimpo)
- Scene: With the robbers. Day. (Narrator, beggar)
- Scene: The stage gets bright. With the robbers. Rock landscape. Camp life. (Mariano, beggar, Capitano, Gasparino Cortejo, 3 robbers, Mariano child, father, mother)
- Scene: With the robbers (In front of the curtain) (Mariano, Capitano)
- Scene: In the room by the count's bed, after the operation. Tomorrow. (Alimpo, Sternau, Rosa, Emanuel)
- Scene: On Rodriganda. Day. (Postman, Gasparino, Clarissa, Narrator)
- Scene: Landola near Cortejo (narrator, Gasparino, Landola)
- Scene: Narrator
- Scene: In Rodriganda. Night. (Sternau, Rosa, Mariano)
- Scene: At Gasparino Cortejo. Day. (Narrator, Gasparino, Zarba, Clarissa)
- Scene: In the park. Tomorrow. (Rosa, Sternau, 4 killers)
- Scene: In Rodriganda (Gasparino, Count Emanuel, Alimpo)
- Scene: Enter Rosa and Sternau. (Rosa, Graf Emanuel, Sternau, Cortejo, narrator, Gasparino)
- Scene: Narrator
- Scene: At the cliff (Gypsies, Rosa, Sternau, Alfonzo, Gasparino, Alcalde, Dr. Cielli, Alimpo)
- Scene: curtain. With the narrator (narrator, Alimpo, Sternau, Rosa, Cortejo)
- Scene: In Rheinswalden. (Narrator, Sternau, Rosa, Kurt Kind)
- Scene: Avranches (narrator, Sternau, Olsunna, Gabrillon, Count Emanuel)
- Scene: The sea battle [Sternau's steam yacht "Rosa" defeats Landola's ship "Pendola" in the Caribbean] - Mariano's rescue [and renewed incarceration in the Pendola dungeon , together with Sternau] (narrator, Sternau, Landola, Mariano, 2 sailors, 3 bandits )
- Scene: In Mexico (Narrator, Pablo Cortejo, Josefa)
- Scene: Alfonzo in Mexico (Alfonzo, Karja)
- Scene: Indian scene [at El Reparo] (narrator, bear eye, bare heart, Alfonzo)
- Scene: In Rheinswalden (Rosa, narrator, Kurt)
- Scene: Narrator, Juarez
- Scene: Narrator, Max , Charlotte , Josefa
- Scene: In Berlin (Kurt, Colonel, Bismarck , Kaiser Wilhelm I , narrator)
- Scene: Josefa's intrigues - in Mexico (narrator, Josefa, Amaika)
- Scene: In the narrator's corner. With the clothes Jew. (Levi, Pablo Cortejo, Sarah)
- Scene: In the house of the Cortejos in Mexico. (Josefa, Pablo, narrator)
- Scene: Sternau's salvation (narrator, chapter Wagner, Kurt Helmers, Mariano)
- Scene: In Mexico near Juarez. (Juárez, Kurt Helmers, Sternau)
- Scene: Kurt Helmers with Kaiser Max. Storming of Querétaro. (Kurt Helmers, Kaiser Max, soldier)
- Scene: On the rubble after the battle (Pablo Cortejo, Josefa, Hilario, Sternau, Kurt, Juárez, storytellers, Landola, monks)
- Scene: Masked ball in Rheinswalden (narrator, Kurt, Waldröschen, Rosa, Count Emanuel, Sternau, Max, Juárez, firing squad, Olsunna)
Quotes
Benito Juárez in an address to the Mexican people (34th scene):
- “I suffered and endured because I thought my time would come. I saw the land devastated and the prosperity of my people shattered, but I did not hesitate. I stand on the outermost border of the land for whose good I would give my life, and there are only a few faithful who are with me. But God is now giving me a sign that my prayers have been answered. The rule of the French cannot last forever. The beginning has been made, the first four companies of the enemy have been destroyed, and nothing should prevent me from continuing the course I have started. I will march from here directly to Chihuahua , stay there for two days, five days to Coahuila , is ten days. We set out at once, steam up the river to Belleville and Revilla, then we turn into the Sabina River , which runs towards Coahuila. We wait for her where it splits into two arms. That's about twelve miles from Coahuila. Then I'll be master of the land again. "(Textbook, p. 88)
Assessment of the situation by the Prussian king (36th scene):
- “My cousin Max crushed this Juárez between Napoleon's intrigues and the army of the rebels. Carl Sternau kidnapped. Shameful crimes against the family of the Rodrigandas. Illegal appropriation of the Rodrigandian possessions by the Spanish and Mexican Cortejos. The thunder is supposed to be ... The Mexican events are of the greatest importance for the history of Prussia and Europe . I will send you a secret message to Juárez, who seems to me to be the key figure of the whole thing ... "(Textbook, p. 96)
Solemn declaration by Kurt Helmers at Sternau's salvation from a South Sea island (40th scene):
- "Ladies and gentlemen! Before we part, I have a grave and sacred duty to perform. This island is not shown on any map and lies in the wide seas without a name or ruler. Germany , the fatherland of three people from our assembly, has never ousted a people from their country or deprived them of their property. The prince has many, but not a single master; it owns only itself, but no colony . But the time will come when it has both, and only to confirm my conviction, I will take possession of this small island, worthless in itself, in the name of the expected German emperor for my fatherland and give it the name "Rodriganda". Raise your glasses. High Germany! "(Textbook, p. 108)
Performances
In Hannover
The play "The forest rose or the persecution around the world" was premiered as a parody of this genre on October 23, 1977 in the Hanover theater at the " Ballhof ". Discovered for the stage by Wolfgang Grüter, edited by Götz Loepelmann and Astrid Fischer-Windorf.
In Mönchengladbach
Another arrangement of the forest rose for the stage under the title “Rodriganda Castle. A chase around the world. Revue von Karl May ”was carried out by Astrid Fischer-Windorf, Götz Loepelmann, Wolfgang Trevisany and Gerhard Weber .
This play was premiered on November 16, 1985 in the Schauspielhaus Mönchengladbach. In addition, a detailed program was published in paperback with a cast list, the texts of the piece, information on Karl May and the historical context of the text basis.
In Radebeul
Since then the piece has been performed more often, including in Radebeul 1996.
swell
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the novel
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the people and places of action
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the play
Text book
- Karl May: The forest rose or the pursuit around the world. A melodramatic arc of images . Stage version, edited by Götz Loepelmann and Astrid Fischer-Windorf. With figurines by Erika Landertinger, Hildesheim: Olms Presse, 1977.
literature
- Franz R. Stuke: Forsthaus in the Hunsrück . In: KMG-Nachrichten No. 109, 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl May: My life and striving , p. 202.
- ↑ Hermesmeier / Schmatz see parallels to the life story of "Carmen Sylva", who was a Hessian princess called "Waldröschen". (Hermesmeier / Schmatz : "Waldröschen". Queen of Romania. In search of the origin of a novel . In: Karl May & Co. No. 114/2008.)
- ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Pohon_Upas
- ↑ http://d-nb.info/890776016
- ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Waldröschen_(Radebeul_1996)