Kasimir und Karoline - Schedule, Program & Tickets

"And love never ends" is the motto of Horváth's "Ballad" at the Munich Oktoberfest in the early 1930s. However, the love between Kasimir, who received his notice as a chauffeur that day, and Karoline, who does not want to let go of her higher ambitions, ends in the third of one hundred and seventeen scenes with the words: "I like me!" And so it came true the sentence about love that never ends, which at first just sounds malicious, becomes more and more constant as the piece progresses.

The fact that love is seen and used in this piece primarily as a vehicle for social ascent and descent only makes it more enduring in a certain sense. But not more consistently, because every new ride to an (even) better life must be used immediately and there is no time to look back: "What is dead is dead and there are no ghosts, especially not between the sexes."

Karoline, who for a moment made it from a chauffeur who had been ousted to a position as a councilor of commerce and finally ended up with a cutter from the children's department, tries with calculation what obviously cannot be achieved with feeling: "People without feelings have it much easier in life."
The coldness that Horváth's characters show in this play from 1932 will be needed in the future.

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