Scheible was a German publisher and bookseller, who was particularly known for his review Das Kloster (the Convent) – published in Stuttgart from 1845 to 1850. It dealt with all forms of popular arts using the German language. Several puppet plays were published in it. Faust and Don Juan appeared in these plays. Scheible published three different versions of Don Juan. The manuscript summarised here comes from a theatre in Augsburg. Scheible says that he almost never changed the text – only to correct the unreliable spelling of the manuscript. In any case, he achieves a pioneering work in the gathering of puppet plays on Don Juan with this publication.

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.