C.G.S. de Villiers - Revision history

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	==Sources==		==Sources==
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		+	[[Radio Week]], November 2, 1945.

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 * Ibsen's ''[[Rosmersholm]]'' (1925)
-* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' in the 1930s. In November 1945 the drama was translated by dr de Villiers as [[Boumeester Solness]] (The Master Builder) for radio broadcast.
+* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' in the 1930s. In November 1945 the translated drama was broadcast by [[Cape Town "B"]] radio station.
 * Mascagni’s opera, [[Cavalleria Rusticana]], performed in Stellenbosch in 1940.
 * Pirandello's ''[[La vita che ti diedi]]'' ("The life I gave you"), translated as ''[[Die Lewe wat ek jou Geskenk het|Die Lewe wat ek jou gegee het]]'', later performed by [[PACT]] and [[UTS]] in 1964.

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 * Ibsen's ''[[Rosmersholm]]'' (1925)
-* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' in the 1930s.
+* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' in the 1930s. In November 1945 the drama was translated by dr de Villiers as [[Boumeester Solness]] (The Master Builder) for radio broadcast.
 * Mascagni’s opera, [[Cavalleria Rusticana]], performed in Stellenbosch in 1940.
 * Pirandello's ''[[La vita che ti diedi]]'' ("The life I gave you"), translated as ''[[Die Lewe wat ek jou Geskenk het|Die Lewe wat ek jou gegee het]]'', later performed by [[PACT]] and [[UTS]] in 1964.

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	He directed ''[[A Doll's House]]'' in English (with [[Helene Botha]] as "Nora") in 1925 and Pirandello's comedy ''[[Liolà]]'' as ''[[The Idler]]'' at about the same time, also featuring Botha.		He directed ''[[A Doll's House]]'' in English (with [[Helene Botha]] as "Nora") in 1925 and Pirandello's comedy ''[[Liolà]]'' as ''[[The Idler]]'' at about the same time, also featuring Botha.
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		+	He directed Ibsen's ''[[The Master Builder]]'' for the [[Unie-debatsvereniging]] (starring inter alia [[Anna Pohl]] and [[Neep van der Merwe]], on 12 August, 1926).

	==Sources==		==Sources==

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 * Ibsen's ''[[Rosmersholm]]'' (1925)
-* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as and directed ''[[Boumeester Solness]]''  on 12 August, 1926  for the [[Unie-debatsvereniging]] (starring inter alia [[Anna Pohl]] and [[Neep van der Merwe]].)
+* Ibsen's ''[[Bygmester Solness]]'' ("The Master Builder") , translated as ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' in the 1930s.
 * Mascagni’s opera, [[Cavalleria Rusticana]], performed in Stellenbosch in 1940.
 * Pirandello's ''[[La vita che ti diedi]]'' ("The life I gave you"), translated as ''[[Die Lewe wat ek jou Geskenk het|Die Lewe wat ek jou gegee het]]'', later performed by [[PACT]] and [[UTS]] in 1964.
 ===Director===

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-He was a very cultivated man and served on the executive board of the [[SABC]] for 12 years. His great love was music, especially singing, and he also gave lectures on music. He produced plays for [[Stellenbosch University]] and translated plays for them, notably the works of Ibsen.
+He was a very cultivated man and served on the executive board of the [[SABC]] for 12 years. His great love was music, especially singing, and he also gave lectures on music. He produced/directed and translated plays for [[Stellenbosch University]], notably the works of Ibsen.
 He spoke six languages and translated literary works from German, Italian and Scandinavian.
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 In 1981, the [[SABC]] broadcast ''[[Dokter Con Viljee se Overberg]]'', a popular TV series based on his Overberg-stories and directed by [[Manie van Rensburg]].
-===Translations===
+===Translations into Afrikaans===
-He translated Pirandello's ''[[La vita che ti diedi]]'' as ''[[Die Lewe wat ek jou Geskenk het|Die Lewe wat ek jou gegee het]]'' ("The life I gave you"), later performed by [[PACT]] and [[UTS]] in 1964.
+Works translated into Afrikaans by de Villiers, and subsequently performed, include:
-Mascagni’s [[Cavalleria Rusticana]], translated into Afrikaans by [[Con de Villiers]] and performed in Stellenbosch in 1940;
+* Ibsen's ''[[Rosmersholm]]'' (1925)
-He translated and directed ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' ( The Master Builder) on 12 August, 1926  for the [[Unie-debatsvereniging]] (starring inter alia [[Anna Pohl]] and [[Neep van der Merwe]].)
+===Director===
 He directed ''[[A Doll's House]]'' in English (with [[Helene Botha]] as "Nora") in 1925 and Pirandello's comedy ''[[Liolà]]'' as ''[[The Idler]]'' at about the same time, also featuring Botha.

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 He translated Pirandello's ''[[La vita che ti diedi]]'' as ''[[Die Lewe wat ek jou Geskenk het|Die Lewe wat ek jou gegee het]]'' ("The life I gave you"), later performed by [[PACT]] and [[UTS]] in 1964.
-Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, translated into Afrikaans by [[Con de Villiers]] and performed in Stellenbosch in 1940;
+Mascagni’s [[Cavalleria Rusticana]], translated into Afrikaans by [[Con de Villiers]] and performed in Stellenbosch in 1940;
 In the 1920s he also did some [[Afrikaans]] translations of ''[[Rosmersholm]]''  and ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' (an [[Afrikaans]] version of ''[[The Master Builder]]'') for the society. The plays were performed by various groups over the years.

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	He translated and directed ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' ( The Master Builder) on 12 August, 1926 for the [[Unie-debatsvereniging]] (starring inter alia [[Anna Pohl]] and [[Neep van der Merwe]].)		He translated and directed ''[[Boumeester Solness]]'' ( The Master Builder) on 12 August, 1926 for the [[Unie-debatsvereniging]] (starring inter alia [[Anna Pohl]] and [[Neep van der Merwe]].)
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		+	Translations:
		+	Knut Hamsun, Viktoria 1925 and Die Groeiende aarde 1965
		+	Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm 1925
		+	Short stories and plays by Pirandello, collections of short stories: Skandinawiese vertellings (co-author A.C. Bouman) 1927, Die kortverhaal in Skandinawië 193).
		+	Grazia Deledda, Elias Pòrtulu 1950 and Die moeder
		+	Finn Havrevold, Maren se uiltjie 1961

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