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Revision as of 06:17, 14 September 2021
J.H. Meyer (born 1899) was an Afrikaans playwright.
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Biography
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He started out writing poems as a schoolboy, but later shifted to plays. Using the nom de plume of Meyhendi Zhann he wrote a number of pieces, most of them unpublished. The best known are the detective melodrama Wanneer Plig Moet Swig ("When duty must give way", a 2nd edition published 1935) and Gedwarsboom ("thwarted") behandel die gevolge van ’n konflik na aanleiding van standverskil. Hy skryf verskeie ander ongepubliseerde dramas.
Published by Nasionale Pers (the 2nd printing in 1935).
Sources
Sabinet, the South African Libraries Catalogue.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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