Die schwarze Maske
The source lists the principal characters as Silvanus Schuller, Benigna, Arabella, Rosa Sacchi, Jedidja Potter, François Tortebat and others.
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The source lists the principal characters as Silvanus Schuller, Benigna, Arabella, Rosa Sacchi, Jedidja Potter, François Tortebat and others.
In late-1860s Silesia, drayman Wilhelm Henschel promises his dying wife he will not marry their servant Hanne. After her death he breaks the vow and marries Hanne, whose out-of-wedlock daughter joins the household. As townspeople spread suspicions about Hanne and Henschel’s marriage, guilt and despair overtake him.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
A neglected and abused peasant girl lies on her deathbed and experiences a vision of divine powers welcoming her into the afterlife.
Berlin cleaner Mother Wolff steals a valuable beaver coat to relieve her debts, after already selling a poached roebuck. When the coat’s owner reports the theft, a politically preoccupied police official ignores the evidence, and Wolff escapes suspicion. The naturalistic thief’s comedy uses everyday Berlin dialect.
Cobbler Fielitz and his wife discuss setting fire to their home for insurance money. When a blaze occurs, justice official Von Wehrhahn blames their neighbor Gustav, despite suspicions about the Fielitzes. They profit from the crime, but Fielitz eventually confesses and his wife collapses and dies.
The source lists the principal characters as Silvanus Schuller, Benigna, Arabella, Rosa Sacchi, Jedidja Potter, François Tortebat and others.
In late-1860s Silesia, drayman Wilhelm Henschel promises his dying wife he will not marry their servant Hanne. After her death he breaks the vow and marries Hanne, whose out-of-wedlock daughter joins the household. As townspeople spread suspicions about Hanne and Henschel’s marriage, guilt and despair overtake him.
When the Faun throws Enrico’s church bell into a lake, the bell maker despairs. Elf Rautendelein enters the human world and restores his strength. They fall in love, and Enrico abandons his wife Magda, who kills herself by jumping into the lake. Hearing the bell ring underwater, Enrico rejects Rautendelein. She becomes Ondino’s wife; later, as Enrico is dying, she visits him once more and kisses him.
A neglected and abused peasant girl lies on her deathbed and experiences a vision of divine powers welcoming her into the afterlife.
Berlin cleaner Mother Wolff steals a valuable beaver coat to relieve her debts, after already selling a poached roebuck. When the coat’s owner reports the theft, a politically preoccupied police official ignores the evidence, and Wolff escapes suspicion. The naturalistic thief’s comedy uses everyday Berlin dialect.
Cobbler Fielitz and his wife discuss setting fire to their home for insurance money. When a blaze occurs, justice official Von Wehrhahn blames their neighbor Gustav, despite suspicions about the Fielitzes. They profit from the crime, but Fielitz eventually confesses and his wife collapses and dies.
In a Berlin tenement, Jette John steals and substitutes infants in an attempt to keep a baby as her own, while conflicts among a former theatre manager's family and aspiring actors unfold nearby. The thefts and deceptions are exposed, ending in Jette's suicide.
Heinrich, a bellfounder, loses his newly completed bell when sprites overturn its wagon and it sinks in a mountain lake. Nursed by the half-child, half-fairy Rautendelein, he falls in love with her, abandoning his old standards and bringing about his wife's death.
An ensemble drama portrays Silesian weavers as a collective protagonist in their 1844 uprising against the conditions of industrial change and economic hardship.