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Also found as ''[[Die Dame aus Ostende]]''
 
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''Not to be confused with "Hans Huckebein, der Unglücksrabe", a famous poem about a raven by Wilhelm Busch''
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

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Hans Huckebein, der Unglücksrabe is a German farce ("schwank") in three acts by Oscar Blumenthal (1852-1917)[1] and Gustav Kadelburg (1851–1925)[2]

Also found as Die Dame aus Ostende

Not to be confused with "Hans Huckebein, der Unglücksrabe", a famous poem about a raven by Wilhelm Busch

The original text

First performed in the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 1897 and on 15 May, 1898 in the Hoftheater, Weimar.


Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as Number 9, or The Lady of Ostend by F.C. Burnand.

Adapted and translated into Afrikaans as Die Ongeluksvoël ("The accident-prone person") by H.J.G. Gieseler. Published in Afrikaans by Nasionale Pers Beperk in 1930.

Performance history in South Africa

193*: Performed in Afrikaans as Die Ongeluksvoël in Johannesburg by the Sonop Afrikaner Kring, directed by Schalk Theron (1912-2015).

Sources

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

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

Die Nuwe Brandwag. Tydskrif vir Kuns en Lettere. Jaargang 1930. J.H. de Bussy, Pretoria 1930 [3]


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