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Berthe tells Walther about her childhood with an old woman, a gem-laying bird and a dog, and how she stole the gems and fled. Eckbert becomes alarmed when Walther knows the dog’s name and later kills him. After the old woman reveals that she was also Walther and Hugo, and that Berthe was Eckbert’s half-sister, Eckbert goes insane and dies.
Before leaving for war, Siegfried entrusts his wife Genoveva to his servant Golo, whose nurse Margaretha encourages him to pursue her. When Genoveva rejects Golo, he stages a false adulterous encounter, and Siegfried orders her death. A mute, deaf boy saves her; Siegfried discovers Golo’s treachery and restores Genoveva’s honor.
Poor farmer Gottlieb and his clever talking cat set out to win a kingdom. Tieck's verse comedy adapts the familiar fairy tale while satirizing human nature and the theatre audience through interruptions by spectators, author and technicians.
Berthe tells Walther about her childhood with an old woman, a gem-laying bird and a dog, and how she stole the gems and fled. Eckbert becomes alarmed when Walther knows the dog’s name and later kills him. After the old woman reveals that she was also Walther and Hugo, and that Berthe was Eckbert’s half-sister, Eckbert goes insane and dies.
Before leaving for war, Siegfried entrusts his wife Genoveva to his servant Golo, whose nurse Margaretha encourages him to pursue her. When Genoveva rejects Golo, he stages a false adulterous encounter, and Siegfried orders her death. A mute, deaf boy saves her; Siegfried discovers Golo’s treachery and restores Genoveva’s honor.
Poor farmer Gottlieb and his clever talking cat set out to win a kingdom. Tieck's verse comedy adapts the familiar fairy tale while satirizing human nature and the theatre audience through interruptions by spectators, author and technicians.