147. Lecture Evening: Emanuel Reicher

On October 15, 1898, Emanuel Reicher read the drama "Moses" by Ludwig Klausner-Dawoe at the Urania Theater. It was a kind of rescue of a poetry that was unlikely to conquer the stages. Reicher applied his great art to the work, which is written in a somewhat old-fashioned tone. The content of the poem is Korah's rebellion against the bearer of the law, Moses. The drama is based on sentiments that we have encountered countless times in other forms. The treatment is nothing new either. We are dealing with a poet, but one who has not experienced many of the things that have happened in recent years. He belongs to the older generation and shares their feelings and sensibilities. Nor does he know how to breathe life into his characters. Nevertheless, the hours of this lecture were enjoyable for me. I had to admire Reicher's great art of presenting a four-act drama to us in such perfection with the means of a mere reciter.