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100 1 _aGaus-Bachmann, Adele,
_d1869-1945
245 1 4 _aDer Teufelsschlosser
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-10
508 _aRichard Illner, Alpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
520 _a"Der Teufelsschlosser" by Adele Gaus-Bachmann is a verse drama in three acts written in the late 19th century. Rooted in the Vienna Stock-im-Eisen legend and set in the late medieval city, it follows the gifted locksmith Martin Mux after he strikes a Faustian bargain with a devil in a red cloak to secure fame and mastery—on the condition that he banish love from his life. The work explores ambition versus compassion, the moral cost of success, and how denying love corrodes personal and civic bonds. The opening of the play shows Mux, locked out at Vienna’s Rotenturmtor, meeting the Devil (the Rothmantel) and agreeing to thirty years of prosperity if he eradicates love from his actions. He triumphs in a public contest by crafting the famed lock for the “Stock-im-Eisen,” is hailed as master, and immediately turns cold, forsaking his sweetheart Lene and courting his master’s daughter Agnes. Act II jumps forward: amid revelry, a vision of Love pleads with Mux, but he rebuffs every appeal to compassion—he refuses aid to an injured dog, a blind beggar, and the impoverished Lene, and he cruelly dismisses Joseph, a one-handed former journeyman who secretly loves Mux’s daughter Lisbeth. Lisbeth and Joseph confess their love and plan to meet; Lisbeth then begs her father’s consent and, forced to choose, declares she will follow Joseph into poverty, asking only for her father’s blessing as the scene breaks. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cRegensburg: J. Habbel, 1906
653 _aAustrian drama -- 20th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/derteufelsschlos00gaus/
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77667
999 _c118387
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