Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern is the name of two related German plays.

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (17by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ()[].

Die erste Fassung entstand 1773, die zweite 1778. Das Stück wurde am 20. Oktober 1778 auf Schloss Ettersburg uraufgeführt. Goethe selbst spielte den Marktschreier, den Haman und den Mardochai. 1789 lag die zweite Fassung gedruckt vor.

Adapted as a German comedy also called Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern by Peter Hacks (1928-2003)[].

Also founbd as Das Jahrmarkfest

A comedy about about the conflict between art and power.

Translated into Afrikaans as Kermis op Koekenmoer by Merwe Scholtz of a sophisticated comedy (Das Jahrmarkfest) about the conflict between art and power by German playwright, author, and essayist .

1983: The translated version, Kermis op Koekenmoer, directed by Peter Kleinschmidt for CAPAB in August, with Mees Xteen, George Ballot and Elsabé Zietsman, each in various roles. Music by Marilyn Taylor, decor and costumes by Dicky Longhurst, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell.

Sources

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Jahrmarktsfest_zu_Plundersweilern#Adaptionen

https://www.eulenspiegel.com/images/verlag/medien/1597-leseprobe-plundersweilern.pdf

Neue deutsche Stücke im Spielplan: am Beispiel von Franz Xaver Kroetz [1] p. 229.

Kermis op Koekenmoer original typescript in Drama Department archives, Stellenbosch University

Kermis op Koekenmoer [original title Das Jahrmarkfest] [Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 2003. 90. 379. Note:Playscript

Kermis op Koekenmoer theatre programme, 1983.

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