<p>A painter named Schmierpinsel is at an award-winning ceremony. In his absence, Casperl, his servant, pretends to be the painter to a lady who wants to have her portrait made. Casperl takes a down payment, then paints a donkey’s head and hits the outraged woman with the canvas. Upon his return, Schmierpinsel is called at the police station. After his statement, the police chief, Karrnpichler, interrogates Casperl. The latter smears paint on the police chief's face before throwing him out.</p>

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Portrait

Painting

Originality

Genie

Cheekiness

Prestige

Stammering

Outrage

Drink

Wine

Beer

Interrogation

Tavern

Farcical

Satirical

German

Ein malerisches Lustspiel

Kasperl

Lady

Police Superintendant

Monologue

Song

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Brawl

Address to the public

Comic stuttering

Slaps

Casperl als Porträtmaler

Casperl portrait painter

<p>Cockatrice is made aware that he must not look at himself in a mirror, otherwise he will die. As he wants to admire his own beauty, he runs away and visits a painter to get a portrait of himself painted. To flatter him, the painter portrays him like an English gentleman. Blind-Boy finds Cockatrice and takes him away with him without paying the painter. Blind-boy tells Cockatrice that Columbus the Parrot and himself met a very old man named Old Man Adam, who owns a donkey, a table, and a stick which have magical powers. All three of them go to Old Man Adam’s house, and Old Man Adam gives them the objects as presents as they will lose their magical powers should they not change owners.</p>

Not specified

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Marina di Pisa

Magic

Enchanted object

Wealth

Forest

Meals

Donkey

Mirror

Narcissism

Runaway

Magical words

Thief

Father

Fantasy

Comical

English

Cockatrice

Basilic

Blind Boy

Blind

Parrot

Columbus

Pretty Polly

Painter

Adam

The Magic Donkey

Table

Stick

Hidden character

Blind character

The Painter and the Three Magics

Le Peintre et les trois objets magiques