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Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern is the name of two related German plays.


Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (1773/1778) by Goethe

A comedy about about the conflict between art and power., written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ()[], the first version was written in 1773, the second in 1778. The piece was first performed at Schloss Ettersburg on 20 October 1778, with Goethe himself in the roles of the "Marktschreier", "Haman" and "Mardochai". The second version published in 1789.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern () by Peter Hacks

The original text

An adaptation by Peter Hacks (1928-2003)[1] of Goethe's original as a German comedy also called Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern

(Also found as Das Jahrmarkfest).

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Market Day At Plundersweilem by Julian Hilton (published in Gambit International Theatre Review volume 39/40).

Translated into Afrikaans with the provisional title of Kermis op Koekenmoer by Merwe Scholtz of a sophisticated comedy about the conflict between art and power.

Performance history in South Africa

1983: The Afrikaans version, Kermis op Koekenmoer, directed by Peter Kleinschmidt for CAPAB in August, with Mees Xteen, George Ballot and Elsabé Zietsman, each in various roles. Music by Marilyn Taylor, decor and costumes by Dicky Longhurst, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell.

Sources

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Jahrmarktsfest_zu_Plundersweilern#Adaptionen

https://www.eulenspiegel.com/images/verlag/medien/1597-leseprobe-plundersweilern.pdf

Neue deutsche Stücke im Spielplan: am Beispiel von Franz Xaver Kroetz [2] p. 229.

Kermis op Koekenmoer original typescript in Drama Department archives, Stellenbosch University

Kermis op Koekenmoer [original title Das Jahrmarkfest] [Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 2003. 90. 379. Note:Playscript

Kermis op Koekenmoer theatre programme, 1983.

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