In Bavaria, Kaspar learns that Professor Johann Christoph Gottsched is conspiring against him. He goes to Leipzig to work as a servant, under a false name, in the house of Gottsched and his friend, the actress and theatre director Caroline Neuber. During a performance, Caroline Neuber symbolically banishes Kaspar’s character from the stage and dismisses the actor who successfully played him, Silvio. But Gottsched's ward, Lucinde, is in love with the actor: the two young people defy Gottsched's dismissal and marry in secret. In search of a new actor to play the comic role in a play by the student Gotthold Ephraim, Caroline Neuber offers the position to Kaspar, who declines and then reveals his true identity. The actress breaks up with Gottsched and hires Silvio again, as well as Lucinde. Kaspar is arrested by the Bavarian policeman Stadelmann, who has set out after him, but is finally released by Gotthold Ephraim and is praised by the entire audience.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Schmidt-Ziegler Tilla

Germany

Leipzig

Printed

Conspiring

Bavaria

Professor

Hanswurst

Literary criticism

Theatre

Reformation

Impossible love

Humour

Rationality

Women's condition

Pigtail

Wedding

Comical

German

Puppenkomödie aus dem alten Leipzig

Kasperl

Mrs Kasperl

Policeman

Johann Christoph Gottsched

Neuberin

Cook

Pasteur

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Off-stage voice

Disguise

Metatheatre

Love story

Versified passages

Philosophical dialogue

Word for another

Dance

Kaspar stirbt nicht!

Kaspar does not die!

Mouse Armstrong and his friend, the mechanic Mitch, are listening to a radio special about mankind's first moon landing. Mouse regrets that no one knows the truth: she was the first person to go to the moon, but the authorities named the human astronaut after him. To make it clear how she achieved this feat, she re-enacts the events with objects made for the purpose. We learn that Armstrong did research in Washington, where she was greeted by an old mouse who said that the history of mouse flying was ancient. Armstrong manages to get into space despite having her rocket plans stolen by a secret police agent, and ends up proving to the mice that the Moon, contrary to their belief, is not cheese.

All audiences

Stemann Philip

Bremen

Electronic text

Moon

Astronaut

Rocket

Building plans

Cosmos

Diving suit

Gas balloon

Plane

Catapult

Secret Police

Swindling

Fantasy

Die abenteuerliche Reise einer Maus zum Mond

Mouse

Improvised scene

Recounting of memories

Personification

Multiplied characters

Talking animal

Hidden character

Theatre within the theatre

Letter

Talking on the phone

Address to the public

Armstrong

Armstrong - Le voyage aventureux d'une souris vers la Lune