<p>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.<br /></p>

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Schmidt-Ziegler Tilla

Germany

Leipzig

Printed

Conspiring

Bavaria

Professor

Hanswurst

Dialect

Literature

Literary criticism

Theatre

Reformation

Forbidden love

Humour

Rationality

Women's condition

Pigtail

Marriage

Comical

German

Puppenkomödie aus dem alten Leipzig

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Policeman

Johann Christoph Gottsched

Neuberin

Cook

Pasteur

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Off-stage voices

Disguise

Metatheatre

Love story

Versified passages

Philosophical dialogue

Word for another

Dance

Kaspar stirbt nicht!

Kaspar does not die!