Roxy und ihr Wunderteam

Captain Gjurka Karoly’s team is celebrating their victory over the English team when the Scottish girl Roxy bursts into the footballers’ hotel room, on the run from her groom Bobby and her uncle, the Scottish sauce, ketchup and mixed pickle manufacturer Sam Cheswick. Without further ado, the Runaway Bride is stowed away in the luggage and taken to the Hungarian training camp. Of course, this diverts the men’s concentration in completely the wrong direction, especially as a girls’ boarding school on a school trip has also rented a room at the training hotel, much to the delightful surprise of their teammates. In the end, the love confusion threatens to end in a sporting and emotional defeat! But Roxy is shrewd and self-confident enough to lead not only her miracle team but also herself to victory. And so in the end it’s 3:1 for love!
The Hungarian-born composer Paul Abraham celebrated his greatest successes as the “King of Operetta” at the end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s in Berlin. When the National Socialists came to power, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 due to his Jewish roots, but was able to continue his work in Hungary and Austria for the time being. In December 1936, his operetta 3:1 a szerelem javára (3:1 for love) premiered in Budapest. Just three months later, a German-language version was released at the Theater an der Wien as Roxy und ihr Wunderteam, the title being an allusion to the celebrated Austrian national soccer team of the 1930s, which also took part in a film version of the operetta in 1938. So SK Sturm is following in a venerable tradition!