Kasperl meets a communist with a red flag. The latter tries to win him over to his cause, but Kasperl, who at first thinks the communist is a bullfighter with a muleta, answers him on every point with a good-natured naivety: he thus manages to unmask the egoism of the other man, who, having run out of arguments, leaves, threatening Kasperl that he will be the first to be lynched at the next attempted putsch.

Not specified

Drexler Franz

Germany

Munich

Printed

Communism

Revolt

Revolution

Sharing

Flag

Bavaria

Debate

Inflation

Socialism

Conservatism

Satirical

Polemical

German

Kasperl

Communist

Word for another

Talking at cross-purposes

Dialect

Argument

Kasperl und der Kommunist

Kasperl and the communist

The count Franz Pocci comes back on Earth to see Munich, his good old city, once again. There, he encounters a series of characters that, each in their own way, prove the missteps of the Soviet Republic: the Demagogue–under the features of revolutionary Kurt Eisner; Death; the Jew and the Devil; then Kasperl and the Münchner Kindl (“Munich child”, figure inspired by the coat of arms of the city). At the end, a young war invalid arrives and gathers around him university students, workers: an exhilarated crowd, who, fulfilling the count’s wish, begins to awaken “the ancient force of the German people” (“die alte deutsche Volkeskraft”).

Adults

Pocci Ernst

Landshut

People and history

Revenant

Tramway

Red flag

Faust

Anti-Semitism

Catholicism

Money

Modernity

Politics

Spartacists

Nationalism

Ein Puppenspiel aus der Nachkriegszeit

Franz von Pocci

Demagogue

Death

Devil

Münchner Kindl

War invalid

Blacksmith

Student

People

Apparition

Worker

Instrumental tune

Off-stage voice

Prologue

Light effects

Philosophical dialogue

Caricature

Thunderbolt

Defecation on stage

Brawl

Versified passages

Parody of formal language

Nachtschatten

Night shadows