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Revision as of 11:15, 9 July 2023
Jan Alleman is an Afrikaans expression referring to the common man.
Sometimes also used as an Afrikaans translation for Everyman.
(Not to be confused with "Allemand", the French word for "German")
A number of theatre and film texts have used the term in their titles, including:
The term has also been used as the name of a character in some works, e.g. the play Putsonderwater by Bartho Smit]],
The name or the4 surname, has also been used as a pseudonym on occasion, for example by the theatre caretaker J. Stigling when he appeared on stage as R.S. Alleman.
Sources
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