The cook Pauline questions Guignol, a hussar, about the date of their wedding, as he has been courting her for a year. The colonel catches them and is displeased with Guignol. Guignol, in turn, reveals that he heard the colonel, while asleep, uttering vows of love to a certain Marie. Shortly afterwards, Amélie, the colonel's daughter, intervenes to ask why her piano teacher is absent.Later, the colonel receives a visit from a countess who has come to ask him why her son, Amélie's piano teacher, has been dismissed, and informs him that he has fallen ill and is in danger of dying. The colonel explains that he decided to separate them because of their young age, to prevent them from falling in love with each other. The countess replies that it is too late, then recounts an episode from the colonel's life: twenty-two years earlier, when he was known as Julien, he and a young girl named Marie were in love. But Marie's father forced her to marry a count. Realising that the Countess is none other than Marie, the Colonel decides to allow Amélie and Marie's son to marry. He leaves with them to go to the young man's bedside. Guignol, after several unsuccessful attempts, kills a cat that was threatening to eat a canary in its cage. Before leaving, the colonel tells him and Pauline that they can marry when he returns and that he will take care of the dowry: he wants everyone around him to be happy.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Josserand Louis (aka Josserand père)

France

Lyon

Josserand père Louis

Manuscript

Servant

Military

Meals

Love

Remembrance

Wedding

Comical

Didactic

French

Le Colonel (The Colonel)

Colonel

Guignol

Countess

Daughter

Cook

Canari

Off-stage noise

Military exercise

Story

Scene of recognition

Plot twist

Blow-with-a-stick

Fight with an animal

Final dance

Julien et Marie

Julian and Mary

The play is a series of short scenes. Putschenelle fights with a blind man who has hit him with his stick, throws his child out of the window, and knocks his wife unconscious. Then we see him stroking his dog Phylax. The next scene depicts two Moors dancing, which Putschenelle eventually joins in on: he knocks out both dancers. He gets on a horse, which throws him off, and the doctor arrives, and they fight with sticks. An officer recruits him to become a soldier, but Putschenelle proves too undisciplined and, when he has had enough, chases the officer with his stick. He is finally arrested and sentenced to death, but he hangs the executioner himself with a curse. The devil arrives, they fight, and Putschenelle kills him.

Germany

Hamburg

Printed summary

Stick

Animal

Horse

Infant

Father

Household

Couple

Murder

Serial murder

Soldier

Army

Discipline

Rebellion

Insubordination

Justice

Cruelty

Gallows

Farcical

German

Leben und Taten Putschenelle, der sogar den Teufel aus der Welt geschafft

Blind

Mrs Putschenelle

Child

Black Man

Doctor

Officer

Sbire

Executioner

Devil

Address to the public

Intervention of the audience

Song

Blind character

Domestic scene

Dialect

Hanging scene

Final intervention of the devil

Dance

Putschenelle ist tot, vivat Putschenelle!

Putschenelle is dead, long live Putschenelle!

Mr. Casperl, a wealthy man of private income, has an appointment with Lieutenant Säbelmaier and the wife of the secretary Federspitzen for an excursion to Lake Starnberg near Munich, but his barber comes too late and he has to leave in a hurry to catch his train, which had been announced late. In the second part of the play, the boat of the three excursionists is wrecked by a sudden storm on the lake. Säbelmaier and Mrs. Federspitzen probably managed to save themselves. Casperl has been living like Robinson for eight days in a deserted forest by the lake. He finally meets a sheep with whom he can talk about philosophy, because it is in fact the reincarnation of a professor and living proof of the truth of metempsychosis. But they argue and the sheep flees in the face of another coming storm. A hunter then finds Casperl passed out and wants to bring him to justice as a poacher, but ends up recognising him as the man who disappeared eight days ago, and Casperl concludes by recommending that the audience take the steamboat instead.

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Munich

Train

Railway

Train station

Independently wealthy person

Secretary

Civil servant

Bourgeoisie

Barber

Robinson

Shipwreck

Beer

Hunger

Lamb

Sheep

Professor

Metempsychosis

Reincarnation

Philosophy

Hinduism

Pantheism

Poacher

Loneliness

Parodistic

Burlesque

Humorous

Die Parthie nach Starnberg; Herr Casperl als Robinson

Die Parthie nach Starnberg

Kasperl

Lieutenant

Hunter

Dream

Unexpected turn of events

Monologue

Talking animal

Criticism of actors' theatre

Off-stage voice

Aria

Argument

Caricature

Philosophical dialogue

Casperl als Robinsohn

Casperl as Robinson

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.