{"id":736,"date":"2020-10-09T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slogi.si\/publikacija\/bela-bolezen\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T13:12:55","slug":"bela-bolezen","status":"publish","type":"publikacija","link":"https:\/\/www.slogi.si\/en\/publikacije\/bela-bolezen\/","title":{"rendered":"White disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026. Don't shake hands with anyone anymore.<\/em> (White disease<\/em>, p. 34).<\/p>\n

In 1937, during the rise of Nazism, Karel \u010capek wrote the play White disease<\/em>The Prague premiere was quickly followed by a Slovenian production (on May 22, 1937). The play was directed by Peter Malec at the Maribor National Theatre and translated by Jan \u0160ediv\u00fd.<\/p>\n

A new translation prepared by Fran Albreht was presented on the stage of the Ljubljana Drama Theatre at the end of 1937. Despite some concerns about the author's literary approaches, the critic France Koblar received the text and the staging positively and in his assessment thoroughly analyzed both aspects, literary and theatrical (Ljubljanska drama: Bela bole\u017eenje. In: Slovenec, 16. 12. 1937, no. 287, p. 7).<\/p>\n

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Ten days after the text was presented at the Ljubljana Drama Theatre, the film adaptation premiered in Prague. White diseases<\/em>. The screenplay was written by Hugo Haas, who also directed the film and played the lead role, Doctor Galen. Due to its current anti-Nazi message, the drama quickly spread throughout Europe and the world. It was translated into Hebrew, among other languages, and the premiere in Tel Aviv was followed a day later by the annexation of the Sudetenland (late September 1938). Less than two months later, \u010capek died.<\/p>\n

The writer prophetically predicted the future in the drama RUR<\/em>, written in 1920. In this game, humanity is destroyed by machines, which are first called robots, a pacifist text White disease<\/em> brings a dark picture of human self-destruction: a militant state, the rise of fascism, intensive armament, the combination of science and politics, the helplessness of the individual and much more. Readers and viewers have understood the events in this dystopia in different ways at different times, but this year they focused their attention on \u010capek's depiction of a pandemic caused by a virus from China, which sickens and kills the elderly. Today's reader shudders at words such as quarantine, isolation and Beijing leprosy, but is not indifferent to the appearance of a fanatical dictator, the depiction of defenders of the arms industry and the destructive rampage of a primitive mob.<\/p>\n

When the young doctor Galen finds a cure for a disease, he naively refuses to hand it over for use, but in return wants assurances that the decision-makers will prevent war, which is an even greater evil than the disease. In this desire, he encounters an obstacle: in the drama, \u010capek shows three figures who have power and levels this power from the least important to the most powerful decision-maker: from the director of the clinic to the large industrialist to the absolutist president of the country. The first to decide on or destroy lives is a representative of science or the medical profession. Court councilor Sigelius, who runs the prestigious Lilienthal Clinic, is the weakest and is depicted in the most one-dimensional way. The position he has achieved through family connections or nepotistic intrigues allows him to be extremely cruel to patients and staff - to everyone he has ranked lower than himself in his mind. The camp cap in a doctor's gown is servile and sweetly friendly only to "important" people. He doesn't care if patients die from Cheng's disease; he is only interested in pursuing the interests of those in power:<\/p>\n

Dv. Svetnik: This is the amen of my scientific reputation\u2026I know all too well what a disgrace this is. But I would rather suffer defeat here than allow\u2026your utopian blackmail, Galen! I would rather the whole world perish from leprosy than suffer here\u2026just for a brief moment\u2026your pacifist plague!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Galen: Look, you shouldn't say that... You shouldn't say that as a doctor!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dv. Svetnik: I am not only a doctor, sir. I, thank God, also serve my country. (p. 25)<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Sigelius serves his country by inventing various measures and decrees. He does not fight the disease with the medicine that is practically in front of his nose, but with force and by mistreating people:<\/p>\n

Dv. Svetnik: In short, in the shortest days an order will be issued that will order the compulsory isolation of the so-called lepers. This is my work, Mr. Baron. The Marshal himself promised me that he would take up this matter. \u2013 This is the greatest success that has been achieved so far in the world against Cheng's disease.<\/em><\/p>\n

Baron Kr\u00fcg: Yes, that's true... a wonderful success. But what kind of insulation do you mean?<\/em><\/p>\n

Dv. Svetnik: Camps, Mr. Baron. Every patient, every one on whom a white spot appears, will be sent to a security camp...<\/em><\/p>\n

Baron Kr\u00fcg: Aha. And there they will leave him to die little by little.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dv. Svetnik: Yes, but under medical supervision. Cheng's disease is a plague that is transmitted from sick people to healthy people. We must protect ourselves against this \u2013 the rest of us, Mr. Baron. Any sentimentality would be nothing short of a crime here. Anyone who tries to escape from the camp will be shot. Every citizen over the age of forty will have to undergo a medical examination every month. In this way, we will suppress Cheng's disease by force...<\/em> (pp. 33-34)<\/p>\n

\u010capek tako s pomo\u010djo odlo\u010devalcev kot z vpeljavo \u00bbobi\u010dajne\u00ab dru\u017eine u\u010dinkovito prika\u017ee \u00bbsociolo\u0161ke\u00ab razse\u017enosti pandemije. V dru\u017ebi se dogajajo tektonski premiki, bela bolezen kosi, posamezniki pa – po Voltairu – obdelujejo svoj vrt. Vsaka nova situacija prina\u0161a nove izzive. O\u010de usodno bolezen razume kot prilo\u017enost, ki jo je uspel izkoristiti:<\/p>\n

O\u010de: Ra\u010dunski ravnatelj pri Kr\u00fcgu \u2013 Kdo bi si mislil, ko sem pred tridesetimi leti nastopil pri Krugu, – da se povzpnem kdaj do ra\u010dunskega ravnatelja! To je velika kariera, mama; res je, dovolj sem se nagaral, po\u0161teno sem slu\u017eil. \u2013 vedeti mora\u0161, da si je za to mesto brusilo zobe pet kolegov in vsi so pomrli, vidi\u0161. In vsi za to belo boleznijo. \u010clovek bi skoraj rekel \u2013 ni\u010d, samo tako mi je pri\u0161lo na misel \u2013 \u010ce pri\u0161teje\u0161 k temu \u0161e to, da se nama poro\u010di tudi h\u010di \u2013 njen \u017eenim je vendar \u017ee dobil slu\u017ebo \u2013 In fant stopi v urad, br\u017e ko napravi izpite \u2013 Ve\u0161 mama, povedal ti bom, kot \u010dutim: Bog bodi zahvaljen za to gobavost!<\/em><\/p>\n

Mom: Please! How can you say something like that!<\/em><\/p>\n

Father: If it's true! Look, she helped us \u2013 and many other people too \u2013 one has to be grateful to fate, mother. If it weren't for this disease, I don't know, we wouldn't be as good as we are now. That's how it is.<\/em> (p. 27)<\/p>\n

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree:<\/p>\n

Son: Well, what? With all the exams, a person couldn't squeeze in anywhere anyway. Maybe this will be a little better now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Father: When he takes all the fifty-year-olds to hell, what?<\/em><\/p>\n

Son: That's right. If only this could last a little longer.<\/em> (p. 17)<\/p>\n

Dr. Galen is unsuccessful in his demand for world peace and fails to obtain assurances from politicians and their countries that they will establish permanent peace and disarm. As his demands fall on deaf ears, he only heals the poor, while the rich continue to die of a deadly disease.<\/p>\n

The next person from whom, after a clash with the head of the clinic, Dr. Galen experiences an unreasonable refusal is Baron Kr\u00fcg. The large-scale industrialist has extraordinary power in his hands, based on social influence and wealth. He also has a kind of ethical compass and wants to do what is right, but he cannot overcome his character. Unconditional obedience to his superior is a higher value for him than his ethos or acting for the good of humanity. Such obedience, which is necessary for the functioning of the military structure, was only a few years after its creation. White diseases<\/em> also invoked by the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n

When the marshal finally comes to his senses in the face of death and wants to change the course of events that are leading to disaster, it is the crowd that destroys itself. A violent, formless, bloodthirsty mass, in which the individual drowns in anonymity, acts without hesitation or thought. The mob kills self-sacrificing people who want to work for the good of their fellow man. What's more, it also deliberately destroys their work, which would bring people happiness. If we think about how many times humanity has paved its way to suffering with violence, the outcome is quite realistic. Positive initiative is ultimately stifled: primitivism, war chaos and violence win.<\/p>\n

Katarina Kocijan\u010di\u010d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leta 1937, v \u010dasu vzpona nacizma, je Karel \u010capek napisal dramo Bela bolezen. Pra\u0161ki praizvedbi je hitro sledila tudi slovenska uprizoritev (22. maja 1937). Dramo je v mariborskem Narodnem gledali\u0161\u010du re\u017eiral Peter Malec, prevedel pa jo je Jan \u0160ediv\u00fd. Nov prevod, ki ga je pripravil Fran Albreht, so na odru ljubljanske Drame predstavili konec leta 1937.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3984,"template":"","categories":[11],"tags":[],"avtor":[358],"izpostavljamo":[],"letnik":[359],"naslov":[145],"prevajalec":[360],"zbirka":[],"class_list":["post-736","publikacija","type-publikacija","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prevodi-dramskih-besedil","avtor-capek-karel","letnik-359","naslov-bela-bolezen","prevajalec-albreht-fran"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBela bolezen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karel \u010capek, prevod: Fran Albreht. 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