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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 17, 1968
German theater company performs comedy at KU
Last night the German touring company, Die Brucke, presented a special performance of the Gotthold Lessing comedy, "Minna von Barnhelm" to several hundred persons in the University Theatre.
Franz Kafka's "Das Schloss" (The Castle) by Max Brod will be performed tonight.
Both productions are in German and are presented by the theatre department in conjunction with the department of German.
Die Brucke began its tours in South America ten years ago and has since visited 50 countries on six continents in seven trips. Dieter Brammer and Joost Siedhoff, who direct the company, began in 1958 with only themselves as performers.
Their presentation of "Minna von Barnhelm" brings a comic twist to a familiar plot.
An impoverished and disgraced ex-Army major refuses to
Amateur chutists to begin training for first skydive
More than 200 KU male students and a few coeds attended the first meeting this year of the KU Sport Parachute Club in the Kansas Union last night.
Club officials explained how those who attended could make their first jump Saturday. The club offers a 5-hour training course before the first jump can be made.
The initial five jumps use a line attached to the aircraft to open the student's chute. The sixth jump is free fall without the aid of the static line to pull the ripcord.
Prospective parachutists from KU will meet behind the Military Science building at 9 a.m. Saturday to travel to the drop zone and airfield near DeSoto where the training is conducted.
marry his fiancee (Minna von Barnhelm) because of his lowly position. In order to preserve his honor, he also refuses money from a former subordinate which might solve his difficulties.
Although the plays are in German, the majority of the audience seemed to enjoy and understand the humor. Many were students of German, from other colleges and high schools, as well as persons from German-speaking countries.
Tonight Die Brucke will perform "Das Schloss," which also pursues a familiar, if somewhat darker theme—that of unexplained guilt.
The Major cannot desert a lady in need and proposes immediate marriage. Without going into other complications, her eventual acceptance coincides with the arrival of a letter vindicating the Major and restoring him to honor.
The pleas of his fiancee and friends alike are useless against the Major's stubborn honor, until the girl hits upon the ruse of telling him that she has been disinherited for his sake.
Though one KU student did not understand any of the German dialogue "the company transcends the language barrier through the superb use of gestures, facial expressions, and movements in their characterizations," said Holmes Osborne, Bates City, Mo., senior in the theater department.
The cast maintained a consistent high level of acting with freshness, spontaneity, and evident discipline.
"Die Brucke travels light with minimal scenery and props," acclaimed the New York Herald Tribune, "but it has rich costumes, a straightforward acting style, and clear speech."
Letter-writing campaign urges help for Biafra
More than 50 letters urging senators to support the Biafran struggle have been drafted by KU students, Ken Frazier, Creve Cœur, Mo., senior said.
The Lawrence Chapter of the Committee to Keep Biafra Alive is sponsoring the letter-writing campaign from its headquarters in the Kansas Union.
The committee said orchestra members will pick ticket today in their dress tails and carrying instruments.
All were in evidence last night.
Student and faculty sympathizers with the new nation's cause hand-write the letters to senators, especially those on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Frazier said. He explained that the letters are handwritten because it is the committee's understanding that form letters and petitions "are largely ignored" by the legislators.
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Committee said yesterday it will hold the "most dignified and unusual picket line in history."
Letters urge the senators to apply economic pressure to opposing Nigeria, which receives $12 million in U.S. aid annually. They also request that supply planes be made available for airlifts to Biafra, Frazier said.
There are also prospects that the musicians will play as they picket. The musicians are striking against the St. Louis Symphony Society for higher wages.
Unusual picket plan by St. Louis musicians
This week's concerts were cancelled because of the strike.
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