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Automatenbüfett [digital videodisc] / Anna Gmeyner ; inszeniert von Barbara Frey ; a production of the Burgtheater Wien ; TV-Director, Catharina Kleber.

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Berlin, Germany : Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd, [2023]

Technological innovations -- Germany -- Drama.

Middle class -- Germany -- Drama.

Motion pictures, German.

Germany -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama.

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+!e1 booklet (14 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).

Die Theater Edition.

ZDF theater edition.

Anna Gmeyner's play "Automat" dates from 1932 and was inspired by the technological innovations of her age as well as by the reactionary attitudes of the bourgeoisie. The provinicalist Adam saves the beautiful stranger Eva from suicide by drowning and takes her along to the restaurant owned by his feisty wife. Eva's arrival is an attraction to this largely male community and the shrewd Adam knows how to use it to further his plans. Barbara Frey and Martin Zehetgruber had designed the eponymous automat, which provides a looming backdrop to sometimes cringeworthily funny and sometimes heartrendingly sad encounters between the outstanding cast. The play proved a draw in major theatres in Hamburg, Berlin and Zurich before its author was forced to flee in the face of persecution by the National Socialists. This production is a true rediscovery.

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