<p>The tailor Bock lodges a complaint with the mayor Salzmaier against Kasperl, his tenant, for night-time disturbances. Salzmaier wants to put him in prison, but Kasperl, warned by his clerk friend Spritzler, pretends to be Garibaldi, entering the Tyrol leading 50,000 men. He takes up residence in Salzmaier's house, flirts with his wife Margarethe and drinks so much beer... that everyone recognises him: the play ends with a general brawl.</p>

String marionette

Young audiences

Pocci Franz von

Germany

Munich

Printed

Excessive drinking

Beer

Spousal abuse

Italy

Army

Balkan War

Seduction

Comical

Burlesque

Satirical

German

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

Greffier

Kasperl

Madame Kasperl

Tailleur

Aubergiste

In der Ferne das Garibaldische Armeekorps

Inn scene

Political allegory

Parody of formal language

Word for another

Nearly

Dialect

Macaronism

Disguise

Brawl

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Kasperl as Garibaldi

<p>While all poor people on the outskirts of Munich deposit their savings in Adele Spitzeder's bank, sometimes even selling their businesses to live on their income, Kasperl is looking for a job. Through his brother Baldhauser (also known as Baldes), a door-to-door salesman, he was placed as a doorman at Adele Spitzeder's house. He introduces the bank's customers to the bank office, where she receives them with her proverbial frankness. But at the end of his first day on the job, the police come and arrest the banker for fraud and close the place down: Kasperl beats down the poor people who come to claim their money. The fourth act or epilogue is a picture of country life: following a quarrel with his wife, Kasperl's other brother, Melchior, goes drinking with the town crier. Kasperl and Baldes enter the stage to conclude the play with a song.</p>

Not specified

Gailler Gabriel

Scandal

Finance

Stock exchange

Bank

Embezzlement

Swindling

Money

Bavaria

Politics

Society

Peasantry

Popular class

People

Poverty

Misery

Bankruptcy

Marionettenspiel um einen Münchner Finanzskandal im Jahre 1873

Serveur

Peasant

Berger

Police officer

Employé municipal

Flying machine

Spectacular turn of events

Catastrophe

Conversation

Slang

Argument

Dialect as a social marker

Caricature

Adele Spitzeder