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Translated into French as ''Chez les Molls ou Le Bourgemestre'' by Laurent Lourson (1963 | Translated into French as ''Chez les Molls ou Le Bourgemestre'' by Laurent Lourson (1963 | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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There are two German plays by this name.
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Der Bürgermeister ("The Mayor") by Aloys Friedrich von Brühl (1739-1793)[1] - 1786
The original text
This 5 act German play. Published in 1786 in the Waltherischen Hofbuchhandlung.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch as De Burgemeester by an anonymous author, and published by Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek, 1801.
Performance history in South Africa
1826: Performed in Dutch as De Burgemeester by the Cape Town company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 10 June, with Jocrisse in Eenen Nieuwen Dienst (Dorvigny).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Friedrich_von_Br%C3%BChl
Facsimile of the 1786 German text, Google E-Book[2]
Facsimile of the 1801 Dutch translation, Google E-Book[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 237
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Der Bürgermeister ("The Mayor") by Gert Hofmann (1931 – 1993)[5] - 1963
The original text
The play was originally written in 1962, while Hofmann was teaching German Language and Literature at Bristol University in the UK, and had its first production in January 1963, in an English version entitled The Burgomaster (translated by Donald Watson and performed by the Drama Department of the university), followed by a West End production under the new title Power of Persuasion, directed by Anthony Quayle and John Mills at the Garrick Theatre, London. It had its first German production as Der Bürgermeister on 30 November in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and as Der Bürgermeister, oder Die Macht der Oberredung in the Altelier Theater am the Naschmarkt in Vienna.
Published in German by S. Fischer Verlag in 1963.
Translations and adaptations
The play was hugely popular, and has been translated into many languages.
Translated into English as The Burgomaster by Donald Watson in 1962, and later renamed Power of Persuasion (1963).
Translated into French as Chez les Molls ou Le Bourgemestre by Laurent Lourson (1963
Translated into Afrikaans under the title Die Burgemeester by Bartho Smit. Published by DALRO (1969) and in Bartho Smit-Vertalings, 4 by HAUM Literary (1984).
Performance history in South Africa
1967: Performed in the Afrikaans translation by Bartho Smit as Die Burgemeester and directed by Fred Engelen for PACT shortly before his death in 1967 in a triple bill with Die Spel van Liefde en Toeval by Pierre Chamblain de Marivaux, and Dodedans by August Strindberg. The cast most probably included the actors in the other two pieces (Louis van Niekerk and Marius Weyers).
1972: Performed by CAPAB in the Afrikaans translation by Bartho Smit (as Die Burgemeester). Directed by Aubrey Berg with Price Coetzee as Nagtegaal, Pieter Geldenhuys as Mol and Aletta Bezuidenhout as Therese.
1973 Performed in the Afrikaans translation by Bartho Smit as Die Burgemeester by PACOFS under the direction of Pieter Fourie, starring Petru Wessels (Theresa), Franz Marx (Mol) and Carel Trichardt (Nagtegaal). Decor by Craig Curtis.
Sources
Hans-Georg Schede. Gert Hofmann: Werkmonographie[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Hofmann
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, New Series 6(1), 1968.
PACOFS theatre programme, 1973.
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.
Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.
Correspondence with Price Coetzee, November 2015.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
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