Valentine wonders .
Oktoberfest show booth (Valentin)
Munich, cabaret Charivari 1920
The flute plays Bertolt Brecht, Karl Valentin, the tuba. The rush hour on the bell is Liesl Karlstadt.
It is no surprise that the recommendations or the fantastic and bizarre explanations of the rush hour-show booths at the Oktoberfest Karl Valentin numerous suggestions for funny scenes delivered, with original and parody often not very likely to have such distinguished from each other ...
Get in his scene "Oktoberfest Show" with a "big lady" and a "Fakir" or "muscle phenomenon typical show booth attractions in appearance.
" The attraction program with Miss Lilly Wiesi Wiesi, the greatest woman ever to be shown in Europe, the Dame is 2-3 m tall and weighs 280 pounds (...).. their size maintain, eats the lady only elongated food such as asparagus, macaroni, rhubarb and Salzstangerln. drinks could be drinking bubbly hot as the hot fluids are ingested in the mouth due to the long esophagus usually cold in the stomach and lead to stomach cold. (...)"
"In the second division they see 'Tafit', the man with the giant ears. (...) At the age of 12 years and 16 months he was in the teaching of a Neapolitan shoemaker in Ceylon. In his more than 40 years working as a shoemaker's boy, in which he characterized by laziness, insolence and licentiousness, his master was given the opportunity to pull him in incessant way in the ears, (...). As a result of many years of expansion of the ears, this same have accepted such enormous dimensions as you now have the opportunity to admire. Due to the enormous bulge of the ears has to Mr. Tafit the sound recording capability increased so much that Mr Tafit grow, as the saying goes, the grass in the dark listening. The crushing of a flea is heard from Mr. Tafit like a cannon shot. When storm winds, can Mr Tafit not venture into the street, because the ears would catch the wind and him from harm could not protect. In his giant ears produces annually 12 cwt Mr. Tafit ears fat, which he always gives to a car lubricant manufacturers, and recorded in the proceeds of that has a very nice extra income. Mr. Tafit is the favorite of all ladies. It is built entirely normal except for the two ears - it's no illusion - no dizziness - all real. (...)"
In the last section - Valentin Wau, the muscle phenomenon - the man with the iron stomach. - The invulnerable Fakir It is heavy iron objects such as railroad tracks - concrete piers - Crooked turn Artelleriesäbel heavy on his arms and muscles. (...) He is able to eat ordinary coal. - Proper and genuine he will drink hydrochloric acid (drinks and shakes) - this is the usual nervous twitch, which must occur after drinking poison, but it will be over again in a few minutes. (...) Valentin Wau, the invulnerable Fakir, he's able to can be sharp objects such as needles, nails, etc. pushed by any body part with all their might. A hat pin him now, we pushed through the nose. (...) In his closing attraction itself is Mr Valentin Wau lay on the floor and is occupied by a car with five people, run over . Let (...)"
access, access, ladies and gentlemen, is just the beginning - the beginning of the new idea no one should leave the festival site without having attended our imagination.. (...)
to spot the chapel is the last character you do not have long to wait -. the most beautiful places are still available -. you are now paying discounted prices - that is to checkout - access, - The artists go into the theater - the chapel is the last character and the show begins.
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Text Source: Karl Valentin: All works in eight volumes, ed. Bach by H. Maier and M. Faust. Munich, Zurich 1995th Volume 3: Scenes, p.26-30
Source: Elmar Buck: Vision - room - scene. Paintings, prints, sculpture, poster, photograph, film in the Theatre Archive Schloss Wahn, Cologne University. Kassel 2001, S.430f
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