Der Hofmeister

A five-act dramatic comedy that follows the troubled employment of a young tutor hired to instruct a privileged boy, exposing tensions between private instruction and social ambition. Scenes juxtapose domestic manners, vanity among patrons, the tutor’s insecurity, and conflicts with household servants. The play satirizes class hypocrisy and the commodification of education while tracing how limited agency and financial pressures shape behavior. It mixes lively comic episodes with darker observations of exploitation and moral contradiction, arranging conversational set pieces and confrontations that build toward a pointed critique of elite private upbringing.