HUMOR AND HISTORY TOGETHER
There is a peculiar place in Munich, the Museum of Curiosities, the great playwright and the Bavarian comedian 20's, Karl Valentin (February 9, 1882), who left a young carpenter to pursue acting. He worked alongside his partner Liesl Karlstadt action. In its nearly 400 sketches humorously addressed the issue of human paradoxes and imperfections in his later years criticized Valentin hard Nazi policy, but with so much skill and good humor that could never be accused of anything. Some critics consider it a precursor of the 'theater of the absurd. " The said museum (144 cents per entry) is in Isartor, one of the four points that made the medieval city wall. One can climb a spiral staircase and go laughing a lot with the sights, for example: Valentin ice sculptures, which are no more than a bowl of water 'drum of spirits', which supposedly plays at midnight when no one can hear, a 'door for the curious' that leads to nowhere, a large nail embedded in the wall where the young man bravely Valentin 'hung' the carpenter (luckily for us) ... Finally a comfortable café welcomes lovers of antiques and Valentinian theater with a phrase in Bavarian dialect: "Kimm, geh ma heit Falentin-Musäum ins." ----------------
Posted in The Zeitung, Journal of the Goethe-Institut Lima , No. 9, March 1996, 23.
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