Kasimir and Karoline

I wanted it to be a ballad of quiet sadness, alleviated with humor

In 1932, when my play was performed in Berlin, the press almost unanimously called it a satire of Munich and the Oktoberfest. I do not want to dwell on this misunderstanding of my intention, this confusion of the story with the location.

It is not a satire at all, but the ballad of the unemployed driver Kasimir and his fiancée. I wanted it to be a ballad of quiet sadness, alleviated with humor, in other words, with this banal certainty: death awaits us all.

Ödön von Horváth

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