A Marchande (female merchant), in love with an employee of the shop (the Courtaud (Shorty)), believes that he is interested in her daughter. A Servante (female servant) arouses the jealousy of a Laquais (male servant). A drunk Musicien (male Musician) tells a Suisse (Swiss man) that his wife is unfaithful to him. Polichinelle tries to seduce a Grisette (Shop girl), meets a Peintre (male painter) who wanted to paint his portrait, and then joins a Troupe de Buveurs (a Group of Drinkers): they dance a divertissement and sing a vaudeville at the end of the play.

Rod and string marionette

Not specified

France

Paris

Printed

Love

Seduction

Unfaithfulness

Drunkenness

Wine

Cabaret

Valet

Comical

Satirical

First page of the manuscript of Polichinelle à la guinguette de Vaugirard.

French

Merchant (woman)

Shop employee

Maid

Swiss

Musician

Polichinelle

Grisette

Painter

Inn scene

Play with drawers

Comical foreign accent

Love story

Final song

Dancing entertainment

Conversation

Aria

Polichinelle à la guinguette de Vaugirard

Polichinelle at the guinguette of Vaugirard

The governor of Barcelona, Don Pietro, banishes Don Juan on behalf of the king of Spain, and he refuses to let him marry his daughter – whom he offers to his rival Don Philippo. Jealous, Don Juan tries to abduct Donna Marillis just as Don Philippo is about to take her to a ball – since it is carnival time. However, he is caught by Don Pietro, kills him and then flees with his servant Hans Wurst. In the woods, they meet a hermit whom Don Juan kills in order to steal his trousers. Thus disguised, he also murders Don Philippo, who went after him. The two fugitives reach a first inn, then a second one, where Don Juan invites the statue of Don Pietro, which is standing not far. When Don Pietro’s ghost arrives, Don Juan and Hans Wurst are already eating the salad. The statue summons its murderer at midnight, in the cemetery, and hands out its hand to take him to Hell.

Germany

Augsburg

Seducer

Unwelcome seducer

Assassination

Murder

Serial murder

Phantom

Revenant

Servant

Morality

Aristocracy

Nobility

Spain

Carnival

German

Augsburger Don Juan-Spiel

Don Juan

Don Pietro

Don Filippo

Hanswurst

Donna Marillis

Lipperl

Devil

Guard

Hermit

Landlady

Statue

Ghost

Apparition

Final intervention of the devil

Letter

Disguise

Comical regional accent

Murder on stage

Apparition of the Devil

Bawdy equivocation

Don Juan und Don Pietro, oder das Steinerne-Todten-Gastmahl

Don Juan and Don Pietro, or the gruesome Feast of stone

The tailor Hanswurst is trying to become a spy to arrest the infamous outlaw Schinderhannes. However, he ends up becoming part of the band of outlaws and helps his partners break into the town, which they plunder. Outlaws relate that they have robbed Jewish shopkeepers. Military officials begin to chase Schinderhannes; fights break out. Schinderhannes runs away with his lover Julie. He repents his crimes and protects his future bride, who is crossing the woods with a dowry of 300 Gulden. He even kills an outlaw from his own band to punish him for gratuitous violent acts. Hanswurst is arrested by a French constable for having stolen a farmer’s pigs. Their difficulty to communicate, as they speak two different languages, leads to many amusing misunderstandings. Hanswurst manages to flee and then betrays his leader, who is finally caught by the soldiers.

String marionette

Trained animal

Geisselbrecht Johann Georg

Frankfurt

Manuscript

Robber

Antisemitism

Nationalism

Failure of language

Dramatic

Der große Räuber am Rhein

Julie Blasius

Mayor

Peasant (female)

Peasant (man)

Porcher

Constable

Recruiter

Tailor

Address to the public

Monologue

Song

Misunderstanding

Entering with vehicle

Schinderhannes

Kasperl tracks down the poacher Mathias Klostermeier, known as ‘Hiesel’ in Bavaria, whose head has been put up for a bounty. But Hiesel meets him at Leder's inn: in a predicament, Kasperl agrees to join his gang. Shortly afterwards, Hiesel kills a gamekeeper in a duel. However, Hiesel's companions plot a robbery in Derferding, despite their leader's disagreement, as he does not want to be involved in banditry: once their plan has succeeded, they must all flee to Switzerland. Meanwhile, they are attacked by Captain Schädel and his troops, who have tracked them down thanks to Kasperl's indiscretion. The poachers are sentenced to death and taken away to be executed. During the trial, Kasperl answers questions incorrectly and the curtain falls on a brawl in the courtroom.

Landsberg am Lech

Gangster

Poacher

Forest

Wood

Justice

Judgment

Bavaria

Money

Poverty

Credit

Debt

Mathias Klostermeier ; Die unglücklichen Wildschützen ; Das lustige Elend

Der Bayrische Hiesel

Bandit

Kasperl

Waitress

Gamekeeper

Captain

Public servant

Secretary

Soldier

Hunter

Court usher

Unexpected turn of events

Word for another

Off-stage voice

Chorus

Plot twist

Ridiculous fight

Confinement

Dialect

Parodic trial

Yodel

Mathias Klostermeir

Mathias Klostermayer

Cassandro, a merchant of about fifty years old, is in need of money: he has finally decided to marry, partly to benefit from his wife’s dowry. He must go from Rome to Albano for this wedding with a woman whom he does not know. He leaves with Rocco, his apprentice, on a donkey. On the way, Cassandro stops at a famous inn in which many Romans meet, eat, drink and sing some sorts of stornelli in verse. Cassandro and Rocco then set out again to meet the bride. A storm breaks out during the trip: the donkey stumbles, Cassandro falls, and Rocco and the innkeeper who has come to help him both think that he is dead. While the two men are busy taking care of the donkey, Cassandro comes round; but he pretends to be dead to see what will happen. The fiancée arrives with her brother and mother. They also believe that Cassandro is dead, but they need to pretend that he is alive to make him sign the marriage agreement and take his money. Thus, they drag the so-called corpse and arrange it so that it can be at the wedding and stand before the notary, whose sight is bad. They change the contract so that the two parties can fully enjoy the other’s possessions. However, Cassandro “comes back to life” when it is time to sign it. The wedding still happens: although the young bride is blind in one eye and not pretty, Cassandro reaps economic benefits from it and the bride’s parents must make the best of it. The friends from the inn join in the celebration.

All audiences

Giraud Giovanni

Italy

Rome

Wedding

Journey

Death

Contract

Giovanni Giraud, Opere edite e inedite, 1842.

Italian

Shopkeeper

Fiancé

Cassandre

Sister

Apprentice

Fiancée

Mother

Brother

Notary

Innkeeper

Coachman

Poet

Music

Fall of a character

Fake death

Il viaggio sull'asino di Cassandro sposo

The trip on the donkey of Cassandro, husband

Don Juan tries to blindside his rival Don Philippo by abducting Donna Amarillis during the night. But he is caught by her father – the governor of Seville Don Pietro – whom he kills in a duel. Then he tries in vain to borrow money to an old cousin (or to his own father, whom he eventually murders in the second version). When he mentions selling his soul, Hans Wurst wants to help him out by making the devil appear thanks to a formula he learnt from a magician. However, Don Juan mocks the devil and Hans Wurst is swept into the air on a giant sausage – thankfully, he lands at the inn where his master was waiting for him. After a shipwreck, the two men reunite in a wood near Seville. There, they also meet a hermit and Don Juan forces him to give him his clothes. Don Philippo arrives and drives them out of the woods. Don Juan stabs him and leaves him for dead. Then he attempts another time to seduce a shepherdess and Donna Amarillis, who also went hunting. Don Philippo’s men are still after Don Juan and Hans Wurst, who manage to get to an inn near the church’s cemetery. Don Juan invites the statue of the governor Don Pietro for dinner, then agrees to follow his guest into the vault, where he dies in the pains of hell. As for Hans Wurst, he marries the manager of the inn.

Dresden

Parricide

Religion

Abduction

Don Juan, der vierfache Mörder, oder das Gastmahl um Mitternacht auf dem Kirchhofe

Der steinerne Gast

Pantolfius

Fury

Metamorphosis

Lazzi

Don Juan is set free from hell on the condition that he leads one thousand and three women to ruin. When he comes back on earth, the seducer appoints Kasperle as his servant, under the name Casparello. The fairy Innocentia goes after them to protect the innocence of young women. The task will prove difficult. Don Juan arrives near Barcelona, where he chances on one of his old victims, Zerline, who is now old and desperately looking for a man. Don Juan and Kasperle flee as quickly as possible when they see her. Innocentia chases them relentlessly and locks Kasperle up in a cage as he sleeps, but she falls in love with him then. Don Juan comes on and frees the prisoner. In Turkey, Don Juan seduces Fatime, a slave to the cadi Mustapha. Both the master and the servant are arrested and sentenced to death. But Lucifer appears and takes Don Juan with him in hell, for having failed to seduce one hundred and three women. Innocentia also appears and takes Kasperle with her in her palace in the clouds.

Polichinelle à la guinguette de Vaugirard

Don Juan und Don Pietro, oder das Steinerne-Todten-Gastmahl

Schinderhannes

Der große Räuber am Rhein

Mathias Klostermeir

Der Bayrische Hiesel

Il viaggio sull'asino di Cassandro sposo

Don Juan

Der steinerne Gast

Don Juan's zweites Leben

Kasperl als Garibaldi

Ein politisches Trauerspiel, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt

La Capture du fameux Fradiavolo

Adele Spitzeder

Marionettenspiel um einen Münchner Finanzskandal im Jahre 1873