To the beautiful view
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| Title: | To the beautiful view |
| Genus: | Comedy in three acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Ödön from Horváth |
| Publishing year: | 1926 |
| Premiere: | 5th October 1969 |
| Place of premiere: | Schauspielhaus Graz |
| Place and time of the action: | about twelve hours |
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The comedy To the beautiful view is one of the first plays by Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938). It was written in 1926, but only premiered in Graz in 1969. According to a statement by Horváth's brother Lajos, the model for the Pension zur Schönen Aussicht was a windy pension in Murnau and the characters had real role models.
action
The play takes place in a rundown hotel that is on the verge of bankruptcy. Several people with dubious pasts have stayed here as staff, but apart from one permanent guest there have long been no paying hotel guests.
In this situation, Christine appears, who was the lover of the hotel manager Strasser the previous summer and had a child from him and asked him for help and support in many letters. The hotel manager, the guests and the staff treat her with contempt and abuse her as a whore. Together they devise a plan to free Strasser from his maintenance obligations, with all the men claiming that they too had slept with Christine last summer. When she told the hotel company towards the end of the play that she had made money in the meantime, she was courted by the men present. But she decides to leave the hotel again and to do it alone.
Quotes
Ada Baroness von Stetten sentence "Because I'm actually quite different, but I so rarely get to it." Has been slightly modified for the title bar of the of Jan Delay texted and together with Udo Lindenberg recorded pop songs quite different .
Film adaptations
- Austria 1970: ORF ; a recording from the Schauspielhaus Graz ; Directed by Gerald Szyszkowitz; Image direction Hermann Lanske
- FRG 1972: SDR production; Directed by Hans Hollmann
Individual evidence
- ^ Horvath: Wahlheimat Bayern ( Memento from March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Elisabeth Tworek, EXTRA-Lexikon der Wiener Zeitung , last changed on March 1, 2005.
- ↑ On the beautiful view (third act) in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ↑ Quite different in the songbook on Udo Lindenberg's website
- ↑ In search of the gin of life . Axel Henrici, stern.de , March 28, 2008.