{"id":15746,"date":"2026-02-21T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?post_type=dt_portfolio&#038;p=15746"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:11:03","slug":"on-the-principle","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/project\/on-the-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;The Principle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row type=&#8221;vc_default&#8221; gap=&#8221;35&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Of the many comedies written by Bahr, this last one can best be compared to his masterpiece, the effervescently funny \u201cConcert.\u201d Carried by an excellent performance, his cheerful mood swept the audience along; one could not only laugh out loud, but also quietly enjoy the approval of one&#8217;s intellect. The surprise was all the more pleasant given that \u201cChildren\u201d and \u201cThe Little Dance\u201d, the two comedies that appeared after \u201cConcert,\u201d seemed to signal an inability to develop further. Certainly, \u201cThe Principle\u201d is also fleeting, if you will. The author does not care about a handful of improbabilities, even impossibilities; he glosses over many important things and sketches the humanitarian world-improvement enthusiast Esch, who according to the title should be the main character, with only a few very caricatured strokes. But this summarily erratic approach works at the same time with such daring \u00e9lan, such a wealth of ideas, contrasts, and meaningful psychological insights that one is happy to accept it as \u201cpoetic license.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Conrad Schmidt: Vorw\u00e4rts, 21.1.1913<\/em>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e4b10f569b4\" data-id=\"69e4b10f569b4\" data-height=\"30\" data-height-mobile=\"30\" data-height-tab=\"30\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;vc_default&#8221; gap=&#8221;35&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e4b10f569eb\" data-id=\"69e4b10f569eb\" data-height=\"30\" data-height-mobile=\"30\" data-height-tab=\"30\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<style type=\"text\/css\">#dt-btn-1 {color: #888888;border-color: #ffffff;}#dt-btn-1 > .text-wrap * {color: #888888;}#dt-btn-1:hover {color: #ffffff;background: #888888;border-color: #888888;}#dt-btn-1:hover > .text-wrap * {color: #ffffff;}<\/style><a href=\"en\/theater\/\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-m dt-btn outline-bg-btn custom-btn-color custom-btn-hover-color\" id=\"dt-btn-1\"><span>&lt; back<\/span><\/a><div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e4b10f56a9a\" data-id=\"69e4b10f56a9a\" data-height=\"50\" data-height-mobile=\"50\" data-height-tab=\"50\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the many comedies written by Bahr, this last one can best be compared to his masterpiece, the effervescently funny \u201cConcert.\u201d Carried by an excellent performance, his cheerful mood swept the audience along; one could not only laugh out loud, but also quietly enjoy the approval of one&#8217;s intellect. The surprise was all the more pleasant given that \u201cChildren\u201d and \u201cThe Little Dance\u201d, the two comedies that appeared after \u201cConcert,\u201d seemed to signal an inability to develop further. Certainly, \u201cThe Principle\u201d is also fleeting, if you will. The author does not care about a handful of improbabilities, even impossibilities; he glosses over many important things and sketches the humanitarian world-improvement enthusiast Esch, who according to the title should be the main character, with only a few very caricatured strokes. But this summarily erratic approach works at the same time with such daring \u00e9lan, such a wealth of ideas, contrasts, and meaningful psychological insights that one is happy to accept it as \u201cpoetic license.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Schmidt: Vorw\u00e4rts, 21.1.1913<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dt_portfolio_category":[182],"dt_portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-15746","dt_portfolio","type-dt_portfolio","status-publish","hentry","dt_portfolio_category-room-3","dt_portfolio_category-182","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio\/15746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dt_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio\/15746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15748,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio\/15746\/revisions\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dt_portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio_category?post=15746"},{"taxonomy":"dt_portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_portfolio_tags?post=15746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}