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The Captain of Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer.First produced in 1931, the play tells the story, based on a true event that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker (Wilhelm Voigt) who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small town to ransom, and successfully "confiscates ...
- John Clifford Mortimer, Carl Zuckmayer
- 1971
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1931; The Captain of Köpenick), one of his most highly regarded works, is a satire on Prussian militarism. In 1933 political pressure forced him to immigrate to Austria, where he wrote Der Schelm von Bergen (1934; “The Villain of Bergen”). Other articles where The Captain of Köpenick is discussed: Carl ...
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Voigt was born in Tilsit, a town which was then part of Germany but is now called Sovetsk near Kaliningrad, Russia. In 1863, aged 14, he was sent to prison for 14 days for stealing. He was expelledfrom school. Voigt’s father taught him how to make shoes. However, Voigt continued to steal and forge and was often sent to prison. Eventually he was let...
On October 16 1906 Voigt was ready for the big adventure that made him famous. He had bought parts of a captain's uniform from different shops. He had resigned from the shoe factory ten days before. He put on the captain’s uniform and went to the local army barracks, stopped four grenadiers and a sergeanton their way back to barracks and told them ...
During the next few days the newspapers around the world reported what had happened. Everybody seemed to think it was a very amusing joke. Voigt was arrested on October 26 and on December 1 he was sentenced to four years in prison for forgery, impersonating (pretending to be) an officer and wrongful imprisonment. However, so many people seemed to h...
After Voigt had been pardoned and let out of jail he spent his remaining years travelling to many countries including United States and Canada where he told people about his great adventure. He appeared in small theatres and signed lots of photographs. A waxwork was made of him in Madame Tussaud's museum in London. In 1910, he moved to Luxembourg a...
The Captain of Köpenick Archived 2006-06-16 at the Wayback MachineMar 4, 2020 · Even Kaiser Wilhelm II is reported to have laughed out loud when he heard about the Captain of Köpenick. Inspired by the incident, a playwright named Rottländer wrote a five-act drama of Der Hauptmann von Köpenick in 1912. In 1930 Carl Zuckmeyer penned a similar drama, and in the same year Wilhelm Schäfer wrote a novel about the infamous ...
Oct 16, 2019 · On October 16, 1906, German shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt, just released from prison for forgery, purchased parts of used captain’s uniforms. In this masquerade of a Prussian military officer he arrested the mayor and the treasurer of Köpenick for suspicion of crooked bookkeeping and confiscated the municipal funds.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick ( The Captain of Köpenick) is the title of several films, plays, and television shows, all about the Hauptmann von Köpenick affair in 1906. The Captain of Köpenick (play) (1931), by Carl Zuckmayer. The Captain from Köpenick (1926 film) The Captain from Köpenick (1931 film) The Captain from Köpenick (1945 film ...
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (English: The Captain of Köpenick) is a 1997 Germany historical drama film directed by Frank Beyer, written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, and starring Harald Juhnke. It was developed from a 1931 play of the same name based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt .
