Das Große Loos

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(The highest bid", also known in German as Das Lotterieloos.) A German comedy in 1 act by Johann Gottfried Lucas Hagemeister (1762-1806).


The original text

Performed in the Königliche Nationaltheater in 1791 and published in Berlin by Petit and Schöne in 1791.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Het Hoogste Lot by Adriaan Hordijk Verstolk and published in Amsterdam by Jan Helders and Abraham Mars, 1795.

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 10 October in their own theatre, with Dienspligt (Iffland).

Sources

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14112502994&searchurl=tn%3Dhet+hoogste+lot%26n%3D100121503

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Hagemeister

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p.133.

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