Play by Helmut Qualtinger & Carl Merz 

Herr Karl

and its First Performance with a woman as the leading part, translated by Melanie Kutschera. It is a 1 hour-long monologue somewhere between play and cabaret, written in 1961 by Helmut Qualtinger and Carl Merz. The one-person play, which was first filmed for Austrian television with Qualtinger as the character (director: Erich Neuberg, first broadcast on 15 November 1961) and then performed on numerous stages, caused a great deal of controversy in Austria.