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Tandi, a Kalmyk prince travelling through Europe, and Count Camäleon both seek to marry Wilhelmine, daughter of Captain von Biederling. A returning visitor reveals Tandi is the Biederlings' son, apparently making the pair siblings, but a later revelation shows Wilhelmine is the daughter of a Spanish count and the infants were switched. Tandi and Wilhelmine can marry, while Diana's efforts to avenge the Count's betrayal end in a knife attack.
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, leaves her fiancé Stolzius for the officer Desportes, who abandons and exploits her. As Marie’s life collapses, Stolzius joins Desportes as a servant, poisons him, and dies himself; Marie becomes a beggar, while the opera’s final vision depicts the collective violence of the army and society.
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, is drawn into affairs with officers whose exploitation and social ambitions leave her disgraced and abandoned. The play criticizes the treatment of middle-class women by soldiers and the social constraints surrounding them.
Private tutor Läuffer enters a dependent position in a wealthy household and falls in love with his employer’s daughter. After compromising her, he flees and tries to build a life of extreme self-denial.
Tutor Lauffer teaches the children of a retired major. After an affair with his student Gussie leaves her pregnant, he flees and later castrates himself to avoid repeating the scandal; he is then accepted as a model teacher and entrusted with Germany’s youth.
Tandi, a Kalmyk prince travelling through Europe, and Count Camäleon both seek to marry Wilhelmine, daughter of Captain von Biederling. A returning visitor reveals Tandi is the Biederlings' son, apparently making the pair siblings, but a later revelation shows Wilhelmine is the daughter of a Spanish count and the infants were switched. Tandi and Wilhelmine can marry, while Diana's efforts to avenge the Count's betrayal end in a knife attack.
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, leaves her fiancé Stolzius for the officer Desportes, who abandons and exploits her. As Marie’s life collapses, Stolzius joins Desportes as a servant, poisons him, and dies himself; Marie becomes a beggar, while the opera’s final vision depicts the collective violence of the army and society.
Marie, a merchant’s daughter, is drawn into affairs with officers whose exploitation and social ambitions leave her disgraced and abandoned. The play criticizes the treatment of middle-class women by soldiers and the social constraints surrounding them.
Private tutor Läuffer enters a dependent position in a wealthy household and falls in love with his employer’s daughter. After compromising her, he flees and tries to build a life of extreme self-denial.
Tutor Lauffer teaches the children of a retired major. After an affair with his student Gussie leaves her pregnant, he flees and later castrates himself to avoid repeating the scandal; he is then accepted as a model teacher and entrusted with Germany’s youth.