A sick man has visions; under the watchful and worried eye of his chambermaid, he talks to himself and believes that he is seeing a woman and a masked ball. A woman dozing in her living room has a fever dream in which she sees the man she has loved. Her daughter, who is looking after her, struggles to bring her back to her senses.

Shadow theatre

Not specified

Bernus Alexander von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Spiritual union

Love

Vision

Separation

Past happiness

Fever

Dream

Lyrical

Melodramatic

Dora Polster and Doris Wimmer, flat figures and scenery for the first scene of Vormitternacht.

German

Schattenspiel der Seele

Sick person

Home-nurse

Daughter

Duplication

Apparition

Vormitternacht

Before midnight