One character in this play astutely notices that he's being served Beaujolais wine and says it's too cool, while another character responds to a question of whether he likes goose stuffed with chestnuts by asking if there will be red cabbage.
One character in this play astutely notices that he's being served Beaujolais wine and says it's too cool, while another character responds to a question of whether he likes goose stuffed with chestnuts by asking if there will be red cabbage. The protagonist yells at his maid Anna for using unnecessary silverware and reveals that he has made a fortune from manufacturing hair lotion – though he later receives news that his loyal employee Knechtling, who invented the lotion formula, has committed suicide. He's approached by a former circus wrestler named Sepp Schmitz, who introduces his more refined friend Willi Eisenring. This play has alternately been subtitled as a "learning play without a lesson" or a "morality without a moral" – its main character, Gottlieb Biedermann, invites two men to live in his attic despite the fact that they are stockpiling a bunch of gas canisters. FTP, name this one-act play by Max Frisch.
One character in this play astutely notices that he's being served Beaujolais wine and says it's too cool, while another character responds to a question of whether he likes goose stuffed with chestnuts by asking if there will be red cabbage.
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