Pastime (Nestroy)
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| Title: | pastime |
| Genus: | Posse in one act |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Johann Nestroy |
| Literary source: | Pastime , Berliner Posse (?) |
| Publishing year: | 1858 |
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Pastime is a farce in one act by Johann Nestroy , written in 1858. The play was submitted anonymously to the censors and allowed to be performed on January 21, 1862 without changes for the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai ; however, it was not played after all.
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The landlord Stockmauer has Felder and his servant detained in their apartment because of the rent debts until they can pay. Felder also owes the businessman Klettner, which elicits the resigned exclamation:
- "My patience has an end!" What is left there? I will have to be patient recently. " (First scene)
In fact, Stockmauer only had them put under house arrest so that Felder would not interfere with his amours again, as he has so often before. In order to drive away the quickly arising boredom, Felder decides to look for white seamstresses for an alleged fashion store. He and Bumml dress up as a lady and maid, receive the seven girls and try to keep them busy with what appears to be mending work, as well as to get closer to them. Bumml, however, is soon revealed as a man.
- Sali: “Pretending to be a girl when you are a man! Unrivaled boldness! " (Twenty-second scene)
Stockmauer comes along because he has seen the girl visit, wants to arrange supper and is also surprised and disappointed about the "gender change" - also Felder has moved. But Bumml finds the words to save the situation:
- “The salvation of Europe does not depend on it! There are other questions that are still waiting for a solution - and then you have to remember that the whole thing was just a pastime. " (Twenty-fourth scene)
Factory history
In Constantin von Wurzbach's work Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Volume XX, 1866; p. 210) the following can be read about the history of this Nestroy work:
- “A farce by Nestroy, which was already written by him in 1858, was found in his estate. It bears the title 'Here are seamstresses wanted', was adapted from a Berlin farce, titled 'Zeitvertreib', consisted of a series of scenes of conflicts between officers and seamstresses reaching the limit of what is permissible and was richly endowed with the funniest punchlines. Soon after he had completed it, he himself began to hesitate to present it, and he wrote the death sentence of the play in the margin of the manuscript with the words: 'Executed without witnesses on January 12, 1858'. Later, when he began his guest performances at Treumann, he wanted to try it, and had intended it for that in 1862. But then the concern arose that the youthful female role written for him was no longer suitable for his advanced age, and so the performance was not performed for this reason. Since it had already been handed over to the management of the Kai Theater, he only expressed the wish that this play should not be performed at all, and as a result, Nestroy's heirs demanded it to be returned from the management of the Kai Theater and is now there currently in the possession of the heirs, who have decided, in accordance with the deceased's wish, not to have the play performed. "
Even Leopold Rosner wrote in 1893 in his essay Johann Nestroy in his letters that the poet can not be about to perform this his "last" piece because he had found "too lascivious" it. Nestroy also decreed in his will that this piece must never be performed.
However, all of this is a legend: There is no note on the existing manuscript and no such provision in the will. In fact, his age could have been a reason for Nestroy not to have the play performed in 1862 - he himself was supposed to play the Bumml, Karl Treumann the fields and Alois Grois the stick man - and consideration for the family would also have been possible.
The source could not yet be reliably determined, a Berlin farce is possible, as Otto Rommel also indicates. A work of C. F. Stix Here seamstresses are sought could have had the same template, however, these were just a pointless Thaddädliade .
An original manuscript with no title, 23 sheets thick, with the note two acts , deleted and replaced by one act , has survived; also a title page, on the back of which there are notes on Chief Abendwind . The manuscript contains handwritten pre-censorship changes in red ink.
literature
- Otto Rommel: Nestroys Works. Selection in two parts, Golden Classics Library, German publishing house Bong & Co., Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Stuttgart 1908.
- Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Historical-critical complete edition, fourteenth volume, Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1930.
Web links
- Table of contents and list of people on nestroy.at/nestroy-stuecke/80 zeitvertreib
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nestroy deleted the addition and leader in the rifle corps of a provincial town
- ↑ Nestroy deleted the addition of the French horn player in the Schützen- Musikbanda
- ↑ Capitalist = at that time someone who could live on the interest of his capital
- ^ Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. P. 464.
- ^ Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. P. 513.
- ^ Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. P. 517.
- ↑ in Karl Treumann's Theater on Franz-Josefs-Kai
- ^ A b Fritz Brukner / Otto Rommel: Johann Nestroy, Complete Works. Pp. 724-726.
- ↑ In fact, the parody Lohengrin (1859) followed, as well as the antics Earlier Conditions and Chief Evening Wind (both 1862)
- ^ Otto Rommel: Nestroys works. S. LXXXIV.
- ↑ Manuscript collection of the Vienna library in the town hall , shelf marks IN 33.439, 33.438.