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Olive Smsley introduces excerpts from "Freiheit in Krahwinkel" (Freedom Comes to Krahwinkel) written by the Viennese Johann Nestroy in 1848. The Company, to which Nestroy was attached as... playwright and comic actor, eagerly espoused the revolution in Vienna. It formed its own company of the National Guard, and dressed in costumes from the wardrobe and armed with property weapons, attended parades and reviews. Krahwinkel is a mythical town (and so escapes the censor's blue pencil) where revolution is about to happen. There is a censor plagued journalist, Von Ultra, as the chief revolutionary, and a pompous, inefficient and corrupt burghermaster on the other. Ultra, disguised as various caricatures of reaction, a Jesuit, a Russian prince, and the Duke of Wellington, hastens the end, and finally, led by Ultra, the forces of the establishment are defeated by his girlfriends, disguised as students. Drama is a potent weapon for the revolutionary propagandist. This is one particularly accurate and hilarious example in a long line.
Olive Smsley introduces excerpts from "Freiheit in Krahwinkel" (Freedom Comes to Krahwinkel) written by the Viennese Johann Nestroy in 1848. The Company, to which Nestroy was attached as... playwright and comic actor, eagerly espoused the revolution in Vienna. It formed its own company of the National Guard, and dressed in costumes from the wardrobe and armed with property weapons, attended parades and reviews. Krahwinkel is a mythical town (and so escapes the censor's blue pencil) where revolution is about to happen. There is a censor plagued journalist, Von Ultra, as the chief revolutionary, and a pompous, inefficient and corrupt burghermaster on the other. Ultra, disguised as various caricatures of reaction, a Jesuit, a Russian prince, and the Duke of Wellington, hastens the end, and finally, led by Ultra, the forces of the establishment are defeated by his girlfriends, disguised as students. Drama is a potent weapon for the revolutionary propagandist. This is one particularly accurate and hilarious example in a long line.
| Module code and title: | A321, The revolutions of 1848 |
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| Item code: | A321; 05 |
| First transmission date: | 26-05-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:33 |
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| Producer: | Edward Hayward |
| Contributors: | Andrew Burt; Clive Emsley; Brian Hayes |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Satire; Viennese Revolution |
| Footage description: | The programme opens with Clive Emsley, who provides explanatory background to the play Freedom in Krahwinkel, written by the Viennese playwright Johann Nestroy in 1848. Emsley explains the tradition of revolutionary theatre to which the play belongs and describes the reaction it received in 1848. The rest of the programme consists of the performance of several extracts from the play. Scenes consist largely of lighthearted political dialogue between the representatives of conservation and liberalism. Emsley provides explanatory comments between extracts. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72135 |
| Production number: | 00525_3220 |
| Videofinder number: | 3312 |
| Available to public: | no |
