Expressionist scene sketch by Gündür for a production of Arnolt Bronnen’s Die Exzesse (1923) at the Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße, Berlin, directed by Heinz Hilpert (1890-1967), 1926.
This essay was written in 1991, but for a variety of reasons, I did not publish it and moved on to other projects. Some of these reasons I explain in note 9 at the end of the essay. I have made only very minor changes to the original manuscript, and thus references to work produced after 1990 occur only in the illustrations and notes. I forgot about the essay until I discovered it in an ancient, neglected file. It is especially interesting for its description of highly imaginative student experimental performance work.
Karl Toepfer 