Winnetou II - Ribanna and Old Firehand
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| Title: | Winnetou II - Ribanna and Old Firehand |
| Genus: | Outdoor play |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Wulf Leisner |
| Literary source: | Karl May : Winnetou II |
| Publishing year: | 1966 |
| Premiere: | July 9, 1966 |
| Place of premiere: | Kalkberg Stadium , Bad Segeberg |
| Place and time of the action: | Wild West , late 1860s |
| Director of the premiere | Wulf Leisner |
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The open-air game Winnetou II - Ribanna and Old Fire hand on the novel Winnetou II of Karl May was in 1966 by Wulf Leisner as a play on outdoor stages written on 9 July 1966 under his direction in Kalkberg Stadium in Bad Segeberg under the Karl-May festival premiered .
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First episode: In the valley of the "White Hindu"
A deeply cut canyon. The valley of the "White Hindu" on the upper Mississippi .
Mounted Indians come from the background of the valley. They are poncas . Their leader, Hawk Eye, is an old, white-haired warrior. He wears a chief's feather. Hawk Eye is expecting Tim Finnetey. He comes up with a plan to bring the Poncas rich booty.
Tah-sha-tunga, the chief of the Assiniboins , and his warriors are on their way here. Also Intschu-chuna , the chief of the Apaches . They are expecting Winnetou , Intschu-chuna's son. Firehand is with them and Ribanna , the beautiful daughter of the chief of the Assiniboins. They all come unsuspecting to this valley, which is to become a death trap for them. Finnetey only demands Ribanna for himself.
Finnetey was once a guest of the Assiniboins and coveted Ribanna, the proud daughter of the chief. But Ribanna chose Old Firehand. Even Winnetou stepped back from him. Since then, Finnetey has been seeking revenge. Hawk's Eye sees through him. Finnetey incites the warriors and kills Hawk Eye. He proclaims himself chief of the Poncas under the name Parranoh. The poncas ride off with him.
On the heights of the rocks the warriors of the Assiniboins are visible. In a long train they climb into the valley. All the people described by Finnetey enter the scene in an impressive ceremony.
The chief of the Assiniboins gives a great speech: “The great hunt is over! Manitu gave us rich booty and the warriors of the Assiniboins will now return home to the tents of their tribe. My eyes see Intschu-chuna, the great Apache war chief, they see Old Firehand, the brave white hunter and his wife Ribanna, the daughter of my heart, the 'Rose of Quicourt'. May Manitu bless this hour! For Winnetou and the son of Ribanna and the great white hunter will return home. It has been three moons since they rode to bring the sacred clay from the red earth in Wyoming to the Assiniboins' tents. You have returned. "
Two tabs appear. It's Winnetou and Harry, the son of Firehand and Ribanna. Harry is 14 years old, blonde and similar to his father except for his lightly tinted skin. Harry reports: The peoples of the Navajos and the Nojoras have unearthed the hatchet. “Our way led through the hunting grounds of the enemy tribes. We had to fight! Winnetou saved my life! ”Intschu-chuna hands Winnetou, who will soon be his successor, the silver box.
Finnetey appears. He wants revenge for the shame he has suffered. He pulls his Colt and fires a shot. At the same moment the warriors of the Poncas appear everywhere on the heights. They carry their weapons ready to attack. War cries arise. Ribanna urges peace. Finnetey shoots Harry full of hatred. At the last second, Ribanna has jumped in front of Harry and receives the fatal bullet.
While the Poncas are storming into the valley, the Assiniboins and the group of chiefs and whites have jumped into the cover of the rocks and return the gunfire of the Poncas. At that moment the Apache war cry resounds from the heights. They are at the back of the poncas, engaging in combat with firearms and tomahawks . The surprised Poncas back down and break through to the valley entrance. Finnetey chases away. The shots of Winnetou and Firehand no longer reach him. The poncas flee. The Apache's cry of victory resounds from all sides.
Harry, Winnetou and Tah-scha-tunga swear to avenge Ribanna's death on the cowardly murderer. Tah-scha-tunga throws his precious chief's cloak over Ribanna. The warriors of the Assiniboins and the Apaches form a long alley way into the background of the valley. While the mourning sounds, the procession of warriors starts moving with Ribanna and disappears at the exit of the valley.
Second episode: In the Kanawha Valley
A deeply cut wooded valley gorge on Young Kanawha. Two riders come from a side valley. It's Edward Frank and Sebastian Droll . While Frank leads the horses to the fir trees, Droll blurs the hoof marks. Three figures are visible in the valley entrance: Sam Hawkens , Will Parker and Dick Stone, the so-called “shamrock”.
The five talk lively in Saxon and examine each other in a humorous way. They hear hoofbeats and quickly disappear behind an overhanging rock plateau, from which they can see the valley well, even without being seen. The tabs appear. It's a group of poncas with Tim Finnetey. He wears an Indian buffalo skirt and leggings . His face, under the hood of a chief, is painted with war colors like that of the Poncas .
Parranoh and his people await a gold shipment from the big city in the east to Fort Scott, which they want to ambush. A rider approaches. It's Walser, the gold transport scout. He notices the red ones too late to be able to turn back. The Poncas surrounded him in seconds with their weapons raised. Parranoh threatens and blackmails Walser to reveal the route and the guarding of the transport.
The group of five overheard everything and are outraged by the planned attack. You want to stay in the background and intervene to fight if necessary. The transport appears in the background of the valley. Walser rides ahead. At the side of the wagon is Captain Mervil, followed by two mounted dragoons in the rear .
The carriage drivers and the dragoons dismount. At that moment a rider becomes visible in the valley floor. He wears typical western clothes. However, clothes and weapons look brand new. The captain of the dragoons blasphemed the Sunday hunter. The rider warns of an attack. Walser insists on the rest. There is a dispute and fight between the rider and the Walser.
The Poncas, led by Parranoh, rush into the valley. The Dragoons are completely surprised. It is no longer possible for them to take their rifles off their shoulders. While the Poncas are pushing the dragoons against the rock face, Sam, Stone and Parker have secretly sneaked into the cover of the car on the far side of the car and got into the carriage from behind.
When Parranoh pulls open the door of the car, Sam stands grinning in the doorway with two pistols raised. Stone and Parker's gun barrels loom from the carriage windows. The poncas turn around, startled. The Dragoons took this opportunity to tear their rifles off their shoulders. The poncas turn to flee.
It turns out the rider is Old Shatterhand . Winnetou appears high up in the rock. He wears the clothing and insignia of the Apache chief and the eagle feather in his head of hair tied up. He lifts the silver box in greeting. Shatterhand rushes to meet him and asks him about his sad, serious expression. Winnetou torments that the murderer of his father and the Ribannas are still alive. Shatterhand assures him that he will stay on the trail of the murderer with him and is convinced: retaliation will reach him!
The Apache warriors appear on the heights. A group of horsemen appears. Firehand and Harry ride to the middle distance of the valley. There is a brief skirmish between Shatterhand and Firehand. Sam Hawkens, Stone and Parker join them. They followed and overheard the poncas. Their diabolical plan: Parranoh wants to ride alone into the settlement near the oil wells of New Venango and secretly open the gates to the Poncas at night. The chief of the Poncas is not a red. He is a white man! He has two deep scars: It's Tim Finnetey! Winnetou has found the trail of the white killer.
Shatterhand wants to warn the settlement. Winnetou vows to take revenge on Parranoh. The Apache warriors sing the war song. Everyone jump on the horses and gallop towards the exit of the valley.
Third episode: Rocky gorge near the New Venango oil settlement
In the valley of Bee Creek. A basin near the New Venango settlement. The silhouettes of some oil towers are visible on a plateau . Four men come over a rock. It's Emery Forster and three of his engineers, Fletscher, Bulcher and Warren. Forster wants to simply let the excessively abundant oil run off in order to drive up the price.
Tabs become visible in the valley entrance. They are Shatterhand, Winnetou, Firehand, Hawkens, Harry, Frank and Droll. They want to warn Forster about the Poncas, the cruelest relatives of the Sioux . They are planning a raid on the settlement.
Finnetey rides up. He wears the typical trapper clothes . Fletscher, Bulcher and Warren surround him unobtrusively and cut him off on the way back. Forster exposes him as Mister Finnetey. Shatterhand, Winnetou, and the group of Westmen draw closer while Fletscher and Warren disarm Finnetey. He is tied to a tree. His game is over. Harry would like to kill Finnetey with the knife, Firehand judge him according to the law of the prairie. Winnetou warns: “The eyes of the pale faces have become blind from hatred and their cleverness has given way to feelings of vengeance! The chief of the Apaches sees death penetrate through the gate and doom rise from the mountains! The valley is flaming with the embers of the fire and the water is red with the blood of the slain! The poncas will come and take the hunters' scalps . But Winnetou is ready to fight and will sing the song of the dead on the corpses of his enemies! "
Finnetey utters the Poncas war cry. From the heights down and over the rocks, the Poncas storm into the valley. A group of poncas on horseback gallops through the entrance to the gorge.
Harry raised the gun to shoot Parranoh. A warrior lunges at Harry with his tomahawk raised. Shatterhand knocks down the ponca. With their backs against each other or leaning against tree trunks, the people of the West defend themselves with all their might against the onrushing Indians. Parranoh is freed in seconds. Winnetou is torn down from behind with a lasso. Sam, Firehand and Harry as well as Frank and Droll are overwhelmed. Forster and his people are also bound and gagged.
Led by the medicine man , the Poncas formed a circle around the prisoners. In the blazing glow of blazing fire they begin, stamping rhythmically and swinging torches, the “dance of great tortures”. Parranoh ends the dance with a grand gesture. The elders of the Poncas sit down with Parranoh on the rock plateau for a big consultation. The warriors formed a wide semicircle. Gallows humor can be felt in the conversation of the bound.
Parranoh announces the result of the great consultation: “You are going to die. All! But you should get a chance. You know the red man loves to play with death ... Two of you should fight. For everyone! ”He describes the conditions of the double duel.
Winnetou calmly awaits the "hundredfold thunder", which suddenly leaps towards Winnetou and raises his arm in a fatal blow. Instead of backing away, the Apache runs towards him, wounds his right arm and knocks the knife out of his hand. Winnetou also throws away his knife. Shatterhand uses a feint to trick his opponent into poking at him. He dodged the thrust at lightning speed and hit the "brave buffalo" on the temple with his fist. At the same moment Winnetou dislocated his opponent's arm and thrust his fist into the pit of his stomach. Both opponents lie unconscious on the ground.
Parranoh wants to give the prisoners freedom, but not life! Shatterhand pulls the knife out of Sam's sleeve and cuts his ropes. Winnetou frees Firehand, Firehand Harry. Everyone immediately take up their arms. The warriors want to pounce on them. At that moment, bright, blaring trumpets sound and war cries can be heard: The riders of Fort Randall and Winnetous Apaches! At full gallop, firing their colts at the poncas, the dragoons rush into the valley. Stone and Parker followed them. At the same time, the Apaches intervened in the fight. They storm from the heights into the valley. The completely surprised Poncas turn to flee.
Parranoh wants to open the floodgates and throw fire into the settlement. Forster and his people rush away. A violent detonation ensues: the flames beat meters high from the oil towers. The chains of fire jump up everywhere and approach the valley. The oil towers collapse on fire.
Winnetou rushes at Parranoh with his tomahawk raised. He pulled his knife. They fight hard on the ridge. The knife falls from Parranoh's hands, and Winnetou's Tomahawk hits him at the same moment. With a cry of death, he falls into the fiery abyss.
Drums and war songs of the Apaches set in. The wall of fire has gone out. The ruins of the oil towers are still burning like huge torches. Firehand is grateful: “The murderer Ribannas fell at the hand of the Apache! Winnetou's white brother will never forget it! "
Winnetou says goodbye to Shatterhand: “The hour to say goodbye has come. The murderer Intschu-chunas is still alive. The great Spirit commands us to part. But Winnetou will always ride by the side of his white brother! Winnetou drives hostility away, friendship keeps you here! Goodbye Love will unite us again! Howgh! "
He rides off, the others set off for Mankizita, Firehand's rock castle.
Others
- For the first time, Ribanna was on stage in one piece. (She died in the first picture, however.)
- Ernst-Erich Buder had to step in as Winnetou for a few performances at the end of the season.
- Rolf E. Schenker was there for the first time.
Press coverage
“'Winnetou II' a complete success. The audience went along enthusiastically. Wulf Leisner created a very impressive dramatization . The best Karl May play and the most cohesive staging that has ever existed in the rock theater on the Kalkberg (...) The play is exciting, but also contains lyrical and humorous parts and gives the show a broad, but broad, Indian dance and fights seamlessly worked into the piece. "
source
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki for the premiere
Text book
- Wulf Leisner : Winnetou II (Ribanna and Old Firehand). An open-air play based on a story from Karl May's novel "Winnetou II" , Norderstedt: Distribution and publishing house of German stage writers and stage composers, no year (1966)
literature
- Rudolf Benda: The Ur-Ölbrand (About a catastrophe that May could have served as a model) . In: Communications from the Karl May Society No. 31/1977, p. 29 f. ( Online version )
- Peter Essenwein: Old Firehand - From Mankizita to Silbersee , in: Karl-May-Rundbrief No. 35/1990.
- 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. 86 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gunther_Schüler
- ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Gerd_Teller
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Parranoh
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tah-scha-tunga
- ↑ Quicourt is the old name of the Niobrara River .
- ↑ Leisner: Textbuch, p. 8 f.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Harry
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kanawha
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kleeblatt
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Merril
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/New_Venango
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Emery_Forster
- ↑ Leisner: Textbuch, p. 45.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Fort_Randall
- ↑ Reinhard Marheinecke u. a .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 89.