Die blaue Maus. 2. Teil (1913)

In the first part of the story, Brummer, a notary from the sleepy little town of Tuchel, met and fell in love with the vivacious Fritzi Lustig, stage name “The Blue Mouse,” at an entertainment venue during a business trip to Berlin. Now the two have lost touch. Chance, together with the help of a money-grubbing tenant and Brummer’s indulgent wife, Clara, brings them back together—of all places in provincial Tuchel, where Fritzi is introduced to the Brummers as their saucy daughter! It goes without saying that the lively Fritzi’s antics there soon throw not only the family but the entire town into turmoil—whether in the kitchen, as a night watchwoman, or at the swimming pool. For example, she shakes up the town’s stuffy Young Women’s League by dancing a tango in front of Tuchel’s virgins as a maid dressed in a little white gown of innocence and bearing a lily stalk as her emblem. In doing so, she performs it in a highly “sinful” manner, with the tango regarded as daring at the time (1913), and threatens to endanger Tuchel’s morals and propriety. “One situation piles upon another, one joke upon another, and a chase after madcap antics that is delightfully funny, yet does not shy away from the allure of the risqué.”