Talk:Johann Nestroy

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Re SONGS. The article speaks of Nestroy's songs elaborating the theme or helping on with the plot. A truly brilliant formulation. Nestroy would have loved it. He would have worked it right into one of his plays. We can easily imagine some cobbler or locksmith who has become a "marchandmode" postulating about Mozart having written his music for elaborating the theme or helping on with the plot.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 08:50, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Re PLOTS. It can easily be shown that the plots of Nestroy's plays are not of his own making. He takes whatever is around and goes out of his way to make clear that he finds the creaking machinery utterly ridiculous. The plots just serve him as vehicles to transport his wordplay and his songs, which contain the essence of his thinking. This brings us to an interesting point. If anybody were to mention these facts in a Wikipedia article, he would do so in clear violation of Wikipedia's rules and regulations. It isn't Wikipedia's job to report any facts. It is Wikipedia's job to gives us the opinions of German Literaturprofessoren and their Honnorary Amerikanische Kollegen. And that's what it does.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 08:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Re THEME. What every theater goer will notice immediately is that Nestroy's plays are in fact operas or, if you will, operettas. What counts is the songs and only the songs. The songs do not elaborate the theme of the play. On the contrary: the play serves to elaborate the themes of the songs. And these themes are actually only variations on one single theme: Shakespeare plus. All the world's a stage, / And every single player on't is stark raving mad. And so is the spectator, Nestroy cruelly makes clear in play after play, if he takes seriously any of the miraculous solutions that Fiction (aka Religion, Science et al.) keeps dangling in front of his eyes.--BZ(Bruno Zollinger) 09:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)