Die Zauberin Sidonia

Die Zauberin Sidonia ("The sorceress Sidionia") is a four-act historical German play by Heinrich Zschokke (1771–1848).

The original text
Published in Berlin by Friedrich Maurer, 1798. Appears to have first been performed in 1797, and was often performed in the early 19th century, inter alia in the Deutsches Theater Dusseldorff under the expanded (and variable) title of Das rächende Gewissen, oder: Die Zauberin Sidonia in 1806, and  Die Zauberin Sidonia, oder: Das rächende Gewissen in 1810, 1811  and 1928.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Toveres Sidonia Martinus Gerardus Engelman (1772-1823) and published in Amsteldam by H. van Kesteren, 1799.

Performances in South Africa
1851: Performed in Dutch, in the translation by Engelman, on 23 October 1851 by Tot Oefening en Vermaak in the Garrison Theatre, with as afterpiece De Kalkoen van Breda, of Menig Voordeel Komt Onverwacht (Van Ray), as a charity performance in aid of those who suffered as a result of what was then known as the "Kaffir War" of 1851.

1851: Repeated in Dutch by Tot Oefening en Vermaak on 13 November, again in the Garrison Theatre in Cape Town, this time with De Geveinsde Zotheid door Liefde (Regnard) as afterpiece.

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