Der Goggolori

• The Goggolori, a Schratt (Tenor)
• Zeipoth, a peasant girl (soprano )
• Irving, her father, Weber and Bauer ( bass)
• Weaver, her mother (Alt )
• Aberwin, a young musician and Köhler ( bass)
• The Einsiedel (voice)
• Ullerin, Seelnonn, cupper-woman and witch (bass with a high falsetto )
• The Goggolori in another form (voice)
• Puppeteer; Farmers

The Goggolori. A Bavarian March with music is an opera in 8 images and an epilogue by Wilfried Hiller with a libretto by Michael Ende.

Action

At the time of the Thirty Years' War, the farmer Irving has made ​​a pact signed with the puck Goggolori: it provides a rich harvest, but for him is the soul of Irwings daughter Zeipoth belong. As Zeipoth is 14 years old and wants the Goggolori up his prize regret the parents the pact. But even the attempt to Ullerin ( a witch who summoned the peasants to help) to tackle the Goggolori with the plague fails. Finally Zeipoth gives the Goggolori their own death, "so that he can finally die ... "

History

The libretto is based on Michael Ende's old Bavarian folk tales from Kobold Goggolori that have been handed down primarily through the book The Goggolore (1935 ) of the scientist and writer Otto Reuther. Since the end of the topic in his poetry although freely treated, as well as motifs from the book Reuther used the heirs Reuther strained to a copyright lawsuit against Michael Ende, which was ultimately rejected by the Federal Court in 1990.

Wilfried Hiller composed the Goggolori in the years 1982-83. He dedicated the piece to his teachers Carl Orff (who had also occur the figure of Goggolori in his comedy Astutuli ) and Günter Bialas. The opera has since secured a place on the stage and performed several times in particular at the Festival Orff in Andechs Andechs Monastery. Since 2002, a puppet theater adaptation of the original production is on the board of the Munich Marionette Theatre, which is in charge of artistic Siegfried Böhmke, the Goggolori Dolls leader of the premiere.