The devil steals the box in which Kasperl, in the previous play (<a href="https://puppetplays.eu/en/oeuvres/5777/frau-kasperl-und-die-köchin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frau Kasperl und die Köchin</a>) had locked his wife, his lover and the night watchman. He replaces it with another box in which Kasperl almost gets his nose stuck when he comes to sniff if it does not contain sausages. Instead, the devil emerges and wants to take him away. But Kasperl has fun making him disappear and reappear with the magic formula "Parlucke! Parlicke" until the devil gets dizzy and cries for mercy. He insists that Kasperl follow him, who finally announces that he is going to draw his will and returns with a club, with which he kills the devil. He seals him up in the box and goes to throw it in the fire.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Reinhardt Carl

Germany

Munich

Printed

Devil

Demon

Don Juan

Woman

Drinking

Eating

Hunger

Stick

Perlicke

Grandma

Damnation

Excessive drinking

Drunkard

Tralala

Radirullala

Hits

Blows with a stick

Comical

Farce

Grotesque

German

Kasperl

Role reversal

Running gag

Devil's apparition

Blow-with-a-stick

Hidden corpse

Kasperl und der Teufel

Kasperl and the Devil

Mrs Kasperl comes to ask her husband for money when Kasperl finds a cook to whom he has promised to marry her and who has just brought him a sausage and some wine. The two women argue with Kasperl and start fighting. Kasperl knocks them both out and locks them in a chest. Alerted by the noise, the night watchman comes to question him. Kasperl explains to him that the two women had a quarrel over some plums inside the chest, offers some to the watchman and closes the lid on the unfortunate man who has put his head in it. Then he leaves, announcing that he will throw the chest into the water...

Sausage

Wine

Shrew

Couple

Household

Married life

Adultery

Kitchen

Glutton

Plums

Quarrel

Infidelity

Satirical

Madame Kasperl

Veilleur

Argument

Domestic scene

Frau Kasperl und die Köchin

Mrs Kasperl and the cook

In this expanded version of the play, Kasperl introduces himself to the Sultan as a botanist and impresses him with his knowledge of radishes (which go well with beer), so much so that he is hired into his service. But he is unhappy with his situation in a Muslim country where the consumption of alcohol is forbidden (except for the Sultan, in secret). He decides to flee with the slave Mimikatzi, who is being held in Schuriburi's seraglio. Kasperl offers to rid the Sultan of the mosquitoes he has to complain about and beats him to death with his stick. Night falls: Kasperl and Mimikatzi flee.

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Turkey

Despotism

Cruelty

Pipe

Black

Orientalism

Muslim

Beer

Botany

Radish

Mosquitoes

Seraglio

Harem

Music

Parodistic

Konstantinopolitanisches Lustspiel

Sultan

Geôlier

Esclave

Tambour

Turc

Disguise

Word for another

Monologue

Murder on stage

Allusion to current literary events

Running away

Criticism of actors' theatre

Address to the public

Epilogue

Versified passages

Confinement

Kasperl in der Türkei

Kasperl in Turkey

Ondina Peteani was born in Trieste on 26 April 1925. As a teenager, she began to associate with the Fontanot family and attended communist meetings. At the age of seventeen, she chose to become an underground activist of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). She soon began to carry out her first resistance actions under the pseudonym "Natalia". During a police operation in a mountain refuge, Ondina managed to save herself with the help of comrade Cvetko. In June 1943, all the members of the resistance group to which Ondina belonged, Ondina herself, her mother and her sister were imprisoned because of a double agent. After the armistice on 8 September, they are all freed by the people. The informer turns out to be Ondina's sister, Santina, because she had a love affair with a young fascist. Santina is executed. Fighting against the Germans begins and the resistance fighters succumb after a fierce struggle. Ondine and comrade Stecchi are sent in pursuit of the traitor Blechi, who has caused the death of many resistance fighters after infiltrating among them. The comic sketch with the glove-puppets begins: Blechi notices the presence of Ondina and Stecchi and disguises himself as a priest so as not to be recognised, thus managing to escape. When he meets Ondina, he disguises himself as an old man, but she recognises him and Blechi is caught and killed. In 1944, Ondina is deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp as a political prisoner. She survives despite the physical and psychological hardships. The horror she experienced in the camp did not erase her conviction that she had to fight for resistance and freedom.

Kasperl und der Teufel

Frau Kasperl und die Köchin

Kasperl in der Türkei

Konstantinopolitanisches Lustspiel

È bello vivere liberi!

Progetto di teatro civile per un’attrice, cinque burattini e un pupazzo