<p>Kasperl returns drunk from the tavern and his wife Grethl refuses to let him in. He meets the night watchman, whom he frightens by pretending to be a ghost. He picks up the halberd and the lantern that the watchman dropped in his flight. That night, the moon is off duty and wanders through the streets. Kasperl apprehends it for wandering at night: as the moon refuses to comply, he strikes it in the face with his halberd, which destroys it. He then meets death and beats it with a stick. Finally the rooster crows. Kasperl is annoyed that the rooster can't say anything except "cock-a-doodle-doo" and kills it, then brings it back to Grethl for a meal: when she sees the poultry, she lets him come inside.</p>

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Drunkenness

Drunkard

Couple

Night

City

Village

Celestial body

Phantom

Ghost

Halberd

Poultry

Chicken

Tavern

Fantasy

Burlesque

German

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Night watchman

Moon

Death

Cock, cockerel

Apparition

Disguise

Animated natural element

Personification

Domestic scene

Versified passages

Fight

Metatheatre

Kasperl als Nachtwächter

Kasperl the night watchman

<p>The Professor discovered how to use atomic energy to power interplanetary flights. With his rocket and Kasperle, he wants to fly to Eros and trusts the Doktor (Doctor) to watch over his laboratory. The latter steals his calculations, and pairs with Death and the Devil to produce atomic energy in order to sell it. On Eros, a minor planet inhabited by beings who carefully watch what happens on Earth and are concerned about the violence of its inhabitants, the Professor and Kasperle learn that the Earth is in danger because of a new type of energy. They quickly go back and discover that the city has been destroyed. In a different version, Death and the Devil run away after being exposed by Kasperle; in another one, the wrongdoers are sent to space where they will stay forever.</p>

Kasperl als Nachtwächter

Die Atomrakete

Ein phantastisches Spiel in 4 Bildern für die Marionettenbühne geschrieben