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THE PLAYS OF ERNST TOLLER Contemporary Theatre Studies A series of books edited by Franc Chamberlain, Nene College, UK Volume 1 Playing the Market: Ten Years of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 1976-1986 Anne Fuchs Volume 2 Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks Edited by Erica Bilder, with notes by Judith Malina Volume 3 Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre: A Documentary Record Edited by Susan Bassnett and Jennifer Lorch Volume 4 Who Calls the Shots on the New York Stages? Kalina Stefanova-Peteva Volume 5 Edward Bond Letters: Volume I Selected and edited by Ian Stuart Volume 6 Adolphe Appia: Artist and Visionary of the Modem Theatre Richard C. Beacham Volume 7 James Joyce and the Israelites and Dialogues in Exile Seamus Finnegan Volume 8 It's All Blarney. Four Plays: Wild Grass, Mary Maginn, It's All Blarney, Comrade Brennan Seamus Finnegan Volume 9 Prince Tandi of Cumba or The New Menoza, by J. M. R. Lenz Translated and edited by David Hill and Michael Butler, and a stage adaptation by Theresa Heskins Please see back of this book for the other titles in the Contemporary Theatre Studies series. THE PLAYS OF ERNST TOLLER A REVALUATION Cecil Davies Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1996 by Harwood Academic Publishers This edition published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 , Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group an informa business Copyright © 1996 by OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) Amsterdam B.V. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Davies, Cecil W. Plays of Ernst Toller: Revaluation. - (Contemporary Theatre Studies, ISSN 1049-6513; Vol. 10) I. Title II. Series 832.912 ISBN 3-7186-5614-0 (hardback) ISBN 3-7186-5615-9 (softback) Cover design: Neppach's poster advertising Karl-Heinz Martin's production of Die Wandlung.Reproduced by kind permission of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, and the Bildarchiv Preufiischer Kulturbesitz(bpk), Berlin. CONTENTS Introduction to the Series vii List of Plates ix Acknowledgements xi I Introduction 1 II The Plays 11 Die Wandlung (Transformation) 12 Masse Mensch (Masses and Man) 83 Die Rache des verhohnten Liebhabers (The Scorned Laver's Revenge) 131 Die Maschinensturmer (The Machine Wreckers) 160 III Toller's Use of Language 211 IV The Plays 264 Hinkemann 265 Der entfesselte Wotan (Wotan Unbound) 297 Hoppla, wir leben! (Whoops! We're Alive) 311 Fewer aus den Kesseln (Draw the Fires) 355 Die blinde Gottin (The Blind Goddess) 383 Nie wieder Friede (No More Peace) 408 Pastor Hall 423 V Condusion 443 Notes 450 I Introduction 450 II The Plays: Die Wandlung to Die Maschinensturmer 452 HI Toller's Use of Language 503 IV The Plays: Hinkemann to Pastor Hall 525 V Conclusion 598 Bibliography (including audio tapes and archives) 600 v vi Contents Appendices 613 A Matteo Bandello: Le Novelle, La Prima Parte, Novella 3 613 (Translated by W. I. Hyslop) B The second edition of Die Maschinensturmer 623 C Toller's contributions to the Leipziger Massenfestspiele 626 D A Hinkemann chronology 641 E Variant readings of Hinkemann's speech in the last scene 643 F Interview with Stephen War dale 644 G Nie wieder Friede. Examples of W. H. Auden's lyrics and H. Murrill's settings 649 Index 653 INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to every one involved in theatre. It consists of monographs on influential figures, studies of movements and ideas in theatre, as well as primary material con sisting of theatre-related documents, performing editions of plays in English, and English translations of plays from various vital theatre traditions world wide. Franc Chamberlain Portrait of Toller by Eugen Spiro, 1930. LIST OF PLATES (Between pp. 263-264) 1. The cage scene from Masse Mensch. Photograph by Lisi Jessen of the Volksbxihne production. 2. The cage scene from Masse Mensch. Design by Hans Strohbach for the Volksbiihne production. Photograph by Lisi Jessen. 3. The skeletons scene from Karl-Heinz Martin's production of Die Wandlung. 4. Newspaper publicity sketch by A. Amstam for Piscator's production of Hoppla, wir lehenl 5. Ernst Toller (about 1918). ix
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