De Nachtwacht

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A comedy in one act by Carl Theodor Körner (1791 – 1813).

The original text

Original German title: Der Nachtwächter ("The Night Watchman"), first produced in the Vienna Burgtheater in 1812.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch inter alia by Salomon Deventer (published in 1844); by G. de Vos (in 1852).

Performance history in South Africa

10 September, 1825: performed as a two-act comedy in Cape Town by the children's company Tot Oefening en Smaak, probably directed by Joseph Suasso de Lima.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_K%C3%B6rner_(author)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p 269

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