The Robbers (Original title: Die Räuber) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier play Julius of Tarent. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Karl and Franz Moor. The charismatic but rebellious student Karl is deeply loved by his father. The younger brother, Franz, who appears as a cold, calculating villain, plots to wrest away Karl's inheritance.
Heart of a Dog (Original title: Собачье сердце, Sobachye syerdtsye) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally interpreted as an allegory of the Communist revolution and the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind. (Source: Wikipedia) For the first time in the GDR, the play was performed at the Volksbühne. (Source: Volksbühne Archiv)
Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy by Neil Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1969. Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish wants to join the sexual revolution before it is too late. A gentle soul with no experience in adultery, he fails in each of three seductions: Elaine Navazio, a sexpot who likes cigarettes, whiskey, and other women's husbands; Bobbi Michele, an actress friend who he discovers is madder than a hatter; and Jeannette Fisher, his wife's best friend, a staunch moralist. (Source: Wikipedia)
Kaspar, the human being is a comedy written by Adolf Glaßbrenner in Hamburg. It was published in 1850. The play can be called a reading drama because it is much more like a political pamphlet than a play and can be read as an aesthetic-political declaration of war. The prologue voice, which can be equated with Glaßbrenner, calls for a revolution in poetry and the state. (Source: Wikipedia)
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"The little witch who couldn't be angry" (original title: A Bruxinha que era boa - 1958) by Brazilian author Maria Clara Machado was an en-suite Christmas project for children at the Volksbühne in December 1985. The little witch rosemary is different from the other witch students. She has blond-golden hair and can not be really mean, as it would be for a first class witch. So she falls through the witch test and does not win the missile broomstick she longed for. When she then gave the lumberjack Peter against the order of Prince Otterngift III. Doing good is locked in the pitch tower.
Albert Wendt is a German children's book author, whose plays "My thick coat" and "Princess petite feet and the seven elephants" were premiered on the Berlin Volksbühne in 1982. (Source: Wikipedia) Princess Zartfuß (petite feet), very corpulent, and her husband, Dr. Ing. Mäusel, are traveling in the volcanic mountains when the road is blocked by a boulder. Even a circus with seven elephants, a conductor and a crane driver are stuck. Princess Zartfuß has the crazy idea to hoist the elephants on the rocks and have them dance for a homemade concert.
The Russian writer and war correspondent wrote about this play himself: I am not scared by terms such as "romance novel" or even "novel about a love of war" or "love in wartime". The title of my recently published novel testifies to this: the so-called private life. Of course there is a polemical undertone in this title, because at that time you simply cannot imagine a personal life without war, a life detached from the events. (Source: ZVAB)
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The German small-town is a comedy in four acts by August von Kotzebue, which deals with the petty-bourgeois world. The mayor of the town of Krähwinkel wants to marry his daughter Sabine to the construction, mountain and route inspector substitute Sperling. The daughter, who had previously spent a year in the city of residence, met a gentleman there (Mr. Karl Olmers), of whom she is very impressed. Under no circumstances does she want to be married to Sperling because Olmers and Sabine want to get married. Shortly before the engagement with Sperling, said Mr.
Handbetrieb (Manual Operation) is a play by the Polish-born writer Paul Grazik from 1976, which was premiered in the Volksbühne in the same year. The piece shows the contradictory nature of the political and economic goals with outdated machines, which makes it impossible to achieve these goals. Through their own fears of existence, the workers are persuaded to continuously improve the results towards those responsible.