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, as is the case here, Don Juan appeared in these plays. Scheible published three different versions of Don Juan. The manuscript summarised here comes from a theatre in Ulm – it is the third and last version he published. Scheible says that he almost never changed the text – only to correct the unreliable spelling of the manuscript. In any case, with this publication, he achieves a pioneering work in the gathering of puppet plays on Don Juan.

Don Juan is displeased with his servants and employs Hans Wurst. He goes see his father to beg for money, but the latter lost everything and reprimands him, while also suggesting that he live with him again. Don Juan kills him. In the following scene, Hans Wurst meets his sister in the woods – she is on her way to Paris, where she wants to report her brother as a father-killer to the king. Don Juan hears her and murders her. Then he asks Hans Wurst to find the hermit who lives in the woods to take his trousers, so that he can flee incognito. The hermit, who vowed never to change his clothes, refuses. Don Juan kills him too. Then they go to a cemetery, where Don Juan wants to summon spirits. His father’s ghost appears, Don Juan invites him over for dinner (at six in the evening) and, on this same evening, the ghost invites him back. As they agree to the meeting with a handshake, lighting flashes in the sky – Don Juan is damned. Devils carry him to Hell.