The House in Montevideo

by Curt Goetz · first published 1945

The House in Montevideo (German: Das Haus in Montevideo) is a 1945 German comedy play by Curt Goetz. A strait-laced father of twelve discovers that his long-lost sister Josephine, who he had cast out of the family for having a child out of wedlock, has made a career as Maria Machado, an opera singer in Montevideo in Uruguay, and has now died, leaving some real estate as dowry to his eldest teenage daughter, Atlanta, who was named after the ship on which the couple was married at sea. The bulk of her considerable fortune, though, would go any female in her brother's household, who would suffer "a tragedy similar to hers", that is, give birth to an illegitimate child, on the condition that this occurs before the 19th birthday of Atlanta next year. The father thus tried to make some immoral suggestions to the fiancee of his daughter, to no avail.

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