Pachter Feldkümmel von Tippelskirchen

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Pachter Feldkümmel von Tippelskirchen is a German comic play in five acts by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819)[1].

Original German Text

Published as a "Fastnachtsposse" (a farce for Shrovetide") in Leipzig 1811, in later editions (Leipzig Kummer 1812, Stage, 1815) called a "Fastnachtsspiel" ("a play for Shrovetide"), and in much later versions simply a "Lustspiel" ("comedy").

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Pachter Veldkomijn van Tippelskerken, of Het Door List Verijdelde Huwelijk by J. S. van Esveldt Holtrop. Performed in Dutch at the Hollandschen Schouwburg, Amsterdam and published in Amsterdam by H. Gartman in 1814. (F.C.L. Bosman, 1928, lists the title as Pachter Veldkomyn van Tippelskerken, of Het door List verbroken Huwelyk)

South African performances

1826: Performed in Cape Town on 31 March under the title Pachter Veldkomyn van Tippelskerken, of Het door List verbroken Huwelyk by Door Yver Vruchtbaar in the African Theatre, with De Verzamelaar, Of De Onverwachte Ontmoeting (Anon.) .

Sources

http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/index.html?c=autoren_werke&ab=Kotzebue,%20August%20von&l=de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue

Facsimile version of the German Text of Volume 15 of Deutsche Schaubühne; oder dramatische Bibliothek der neuesten Lust-, Schau-, Sing- und Trauerspiele (Google E-Book)[2]

Facsimile version of the Dutch Text (Google E-Book)[3]

Henny Ruitenbeek. 2002 Kijkcijfers: de Amsterdamse Schouwburg 1814-1841. Uitgeverij Verloren[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: p. 252

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