The devil steals the box in which Kasperl, in the previous play (<a href="https://staging.puppetplays.eu/en/oeuvres/5777/frau-kasperl-und-die-köchin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frau Kasperl und die Köchin</a>) had locked his wife, his lover and the night watchman. He replaces it with another box in which Kasperl almost gets his nose stuck when he comes to sniff if it does not contain sausages. Instead, the devil emerges and wants to take him away. But Kasperl has fun making him disappear and reappear with the magic formula "Parlucke! Parlicke" until the devil gets dizzy and cries for mercy. He insists that Kasperl follow him, who finally announces that he is going to draw his will and returns with a club, with which he kills the devil. He seals him up in the box and goes to throw it in the fire.

Glove-puppet

Not specified

Reinhardt Carl

Germany

Munich

Printed

Devil

Woman

Drinking

Eating

Hunger

Stick

Perlicke

Grandparents

Future punishment

Excessive drinking

Drunkard

Tralala

Radirullala

Hits

Comical

Farcical

Grotesque

German

Kasperl

Role reversal

Running gag

Apparition of the Devil

Blow-with-a-stick

Hidden corpse

Kasperl und der Teufel

Kasperl and the Devil

Papa (Dad) and Maman (Mum) celebrate Bébé’s (Baby) birthday. They eat cake, drink champagne, play music and are happy. Pap’s and Mam’s, Bébé’s grandparents, comment on the scene without partaking in it, for they died in a bombing.