Familie Lehmann

De Familie Lehmann is a Dutch play by Hermann Reichenbach (1869-??)

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Best known in its Dutch version, De Familie Lehmann. Louis de Vries made his name playing "Abraham Sender", doing it more than 1200 times, also touring the colonies.

Performance history in South Africa

1916: A production featuring Louis de Vries toured to the Dutch Indies in 1916 and was also performed to acclaim in Durban during a stop on their way back to the Netherlands.

Sources

Joseph Walk, Leo Baeck Institute. 1988. Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden: 1918–1945. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co [1]: p. 307.

Hetty Berg. 2001. Jews on Stage and Stage Jews 1890-1940. In Chaya Brasz and Yosef Kaplan. 2001. Dutch Jews As Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Brill.[2]

Spiele für den Unterricht on the website Pangloss[3], Ein Seitenweg zu Kulturgeschichte, Germanistik, Deutsch und Englisch. (Accessed 13 February, 2017)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 9

Bosman, F.C.L., Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. 1980. p 482.

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