The Government Inspector

• Anton Antonovich Skwosník - Dmuchanówski, City captain
• Anna Andreevna, his wife
• Marja Antonovna, his daughter
• Luká Lukich Chlopów, school inspector
• His wife
• Ammos Fyodorovich Ljápkin - Tjápkin, Judge
• Artemi filippowitsch Semljaníka, curator of the institutions for the poor
• Ivan Kuzmich Schpékin, postmaster
• Landowner: Pyotr Ivanovich Dóbtschinski
• Pyotr Ivanovich Bóbtschinski

• Fyodor Andreyevich Ljuljuków
• Ivan Lasarevich Rastakówski
• Stepán Ivanovich Korobkin

• Swistunów
• Púgowizyn
• Derschimórda

The Inspector General (Russian Ревизор ) is a comedy in five acts by Nikolai Gogol. Gogol wrote the comedy 1835. 1836 it was published. The premiere took place on 19 April 1836 in St. Petersburg at the Alexander Theatre held the first performance in Moscow in May 1836 the Little Theatre. The piece still one of the most played in the repertoires of theaters, also in Germany.

Content

In a small Russian town, the message is disseminated, an auditor was incognito on the way into town. All officials of the city, especially the city's main man as the head, afraid of this visit. Finally, each of them has something to hide: they can be lubricated, bribe, or do not fulfill their duties.

At the same time a young man, Chlestakow, descended from St. Petersburg in a guest house. For two weeks he lives there and still has not paid any invoice, but can always write everything. The rumor comes to quick, the young man was the auditor.

Soon it comes to the meeting of the two parties. Chlestakow thinks he would be paid the same because of unpaid bills and disengages. He screams around and complains that the food does not taste anyway. The City captain is completely intimidated by this outburst, and even more convinced that we are dealing with a proper state officials. He calms Chlestakow and thinks that he must play the incognito games. Chlestakow told here but his true story: that he was recalled by his father from St. Petersburg because he has not brought there in the office to nothing there. With the home it can be a little time, however, because he has absolutely no desire to go home. However, he had no more money. The city's main man quickly slipped him 400 rubles as a bribe. He also offers him to live with him in the guest room. Now Chlestakow various sightseeing tours offered by the city, while some money it is slipped over again. He thinks only the people here were very good-natured and generous, then understands but at some point that they probably confused him with someone else. Nevertheless, he plays the game more joyful, engaged even with the daughter of the town captain. Shortly thereafter, he makes his escape. While officials celebrate the event in the city, the postmaster occurs, which opened a letter from Chlestakow to a friend. This Chlestakow makes fun of the people in the city and the dizziness to fly. However Chlestakow is long gone - and even worse: The real auditor waiting ...

Interpretation

Gogol's comedy closes in Russia in the new direction, which ( creates mind Leiden) with Griboedov " Gore ot uma " had already turned away from classical drama and goes a whole step further by also including the previously ever-present love motif only parody way. The comedy gets the structure of the comedy of errors in Gogol. The fact that the overall course of the piece is based on this constant confusion, the work receives a compositional unity. The comedy is based on that the deception is not recognized by the characters of the play, but is determined by the viewer early. The deluded people are indeed the " deceived deceiver " which was to laugh in earlier comedies, in Gogol there are not but individuals, but the whole corrupt society of contemporary Russia. Thus Gogol's comedy is also used for social comedy, the city depicted is a model for the whole of Russia. Gogol himself found that this comedy "became the rallying point for all possible shortcomings " was. Through their exaggerations and distortions it is also the grotesque. We get " insight into the perversity of the world in which we ourselves live." The " laugh at himself " loses the character of mere ridicule, as it has a " cleansing effect ". The laughter is " credited the strength to laugh to make the tragedy of existence bearable " ( Ionesco ). The City captain and the officials who must at the end of the piece recognize their deception, have lost their former safety. Although they have been deceived by Chlestakow, the supposed auditor, but since the whole thing seems to be inconceivable in the silent final scene of all, one is more inclined to the whole attributed to the devil, who had " his hand in the game ." Here is a principle of Gogol's world view is evident, namely that "all lies and deceit " is. Nothing is as it seems, one is mistaken continued in what is the other. The confusion as a problem of identity.

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Productions

• 2008: The Government Inspector - Director: Tilman Gersch - Theater Göttingen
• 2009: The Government Inspector - Director: René Schnoz - NAUGHTY: Freilichtspiele Chur;
• 2009: The Government Inspector - Director: Sebastian Nübling - Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2010: The Government Inspector - Director: Peter Kube - Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam
• 2010: The Government Inspector - Director: Susanne Ebert - Games chamber Paderborn
• 2011: The Government Inspector - Director: Sabine Hahn - ensemble show precisely Comedia Theater in Cologne
• 2011: The Government Inspector - Director: Steffen Mensching - Rudolstadt
• 2012: The Government Inspector - Director: tungsten Apprich - Theater Baden -Baden
• 2012: The Sparkomissar (after " The Government Inspector " ) - Director: Peter Carp - Theater Oberhausen
• 2012: The Government Inspector - Director: Benno bush - amateur theater Sondershausen
• 2012: The Government Inspector - Director: Herbert Fritsch - Residenz Theater Munich
• 2013: The Government Inspector - Director: André Turnheim - State Theatre Linz