Florestant – a young married man – left his wife in their house and went to see Urinette – a prostitute. However, neither Urinette’s touch nor his own imagination succeed in animating the young man. After several unsuccessful attempts, Urinette – desperate and furious – leaves Florestant alone and ashamed.

Glove-puppet

Adults

France

Paris

Printed

Vaudeville

Slang

Prostitution

Brothel

Adultery

Eroticism

Comical

Erotic

Félicien Rops, frontispiece for the Théâtre érotique de la rue de la Santé (1864).

French

Young man

Prostitute

Monologue

Scene of copulation

Situation comedy

Sung scenes

Posture corporelle comique

Comedy of language

Un caprice

A whim

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.

String marionette

Not specified

Gailler Gabriel

Germany

Munich

Scandal

Stock exchange

Bank

Embezzlement

Swindling

Money

Bavaria

Beer

Politics

Society

Peasantry

Popular class

People

Poverty

Misery

Bankruptcy

Satirical

German

Marionettenspiel um einen Münchner Finanzskandal im Jahre 1873

Waiter

Peasant

Shepherd

Police officer

Employé municipal

Kasperl

Flying machine

Spectacular turn of events

Inn scene

Catastrophe

Conversation

Political allegory

Argument

Dialect as a social marker

Caricature

Brawl

Adele Spitzeder