In this short play, Don Juan is only an excuse to stage a farcical variation on the motif of the young girl promised to an old fogey by her guardian. In fact, Kasperle is the main character of the story – he is the one to compel the two old men to agree to Don Juan marrying Zinkelinde. However, the play makes many references to the opera Don Giovanni. When Don Juan introduces himself, Zinkelinde asks him: “Ach, sind Sie vielleicht von Mozart?” (“Ah, could you be Mozart?”). Don Juan answers that he knows him well. The text of the play also includes many rewordings and quotes from Lorenzo Da Ponte’s booklet, which were undoubtedly sung on the same tunes. At the end of the play, Kasperl announces that, next time, the action will take place in Africa – all of Germany is already there, he explains as he hints at German colonial enterprises.

After the fair Hedwig is taken away from him, Don Juan seduces Zinkelinde, to the utter despair of her tutor Nuckel, who wants her to marry an old man – Purzel. Kasperle pretends to help them find Zinkelinde and puts the two old men in a box. He does not let them out until Nuckel agrees to let Don Juan marry Zinkelinde. As Purzel still tries to stop this union, Kasperle beats him with a stick.