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When Hasemann’s wife indulges their daughters, he eventually takes control of the family. The contemporary review frames the folk comedy as a portrait of parental overindulgence and the resulting household conflict.
A father’s indulgent devotion to his son helps ruin the young man, while the play contrasts him with a sturdy shoemaker’s apprentice and the son’s dutiful sister.
Commission councillor Lonei is stern with his 21-year-old son Kurt, who feels treated like a child. When Kurt fails his school-leaving examination and a bill goes missing, father and son clash; Kurt's despair leads him to throw himself into a canal, where the lawyer Reinhard rescues him. They come to recognize their mistakes and reconcile, and Kurt later passes his examination with distinction. A parallel romance links Reinhard with Paulina, Lonei's ward.
When Hasemann’s wife indulges their daughters, he eventually takes control of the family. The contemporary review frames the folk comedy as a portrait of parental overindulgence and the resulting household conflict.
A father’s indulgent devotion to his son helps ruin the young man, while the play contrasts him with a sturdy shoemaker’s apprentice and the son’s dutiful sister.
Commission councillor Lonei is stern with his 21-year-old son Kurt, who feels treated like a child. When Kurt fails his school-leaving examination and a bill goes missing, father and son clash; Kurt's despair leads him to throw himself into a canal, where the lawyer Reinhard rescues him. They come to recognize their mistakes and reconcile, and Kurt later passes his examination with distinction. A parallel romance links Reinhard with Paulina, Lonei's ward.