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

Casper goes to the magic factory to learn magic tricks. The magician shows him some, but Casper is so crude that the magician soon doesn't know what to say, whereupon Casper calls him a donkey. They fight, one with his stick and the other with his broom. Casper defeats the magician. A policeman comes to arrest him, but Casper knocks him out and hangs him on the gallows. His wife blames him, they argue and fight.

Young audiences

Sonneberg

Magic

Silliness

Triviality

Vulgarity

Violence

Justice

Police

Gallows

Assassination

Rebellion

Household

Couple

Broom

Ironic

Le Magicien

Policeman

Word for another

Comic Equivocation

Stichomythia

Versified passages

Brawl

Domestic scene

Hanging scene

Murder on stage

Casper will Zauberer werden

Casper wants to become a magician

After a prologue in which Casper announces, among other things, that he is going to cut off the ears of children who are not well-behaved, the performance begins. Casper announces that, out of boredom, he wants to become a soldier. He shows his insubordination towards the non-commissioned officer who undertakes to train him by beating him with sticks. The non-commissioned officer sends him to the devil, who arrives: Casper kills him. He returns to his wife, announcing that he will be a general. She hits him with a broom, takes his stick back and they fight.