Attentat

Attentat is a play written by German journalist and dramatist Willi Oscar Somin (1898-1961).

The original text

Published in German by Horst Büssow Verlag in 1935.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English, entitled Close Quarters by Gilbert Lennox.

Adapted from French into Afrikaans, entitled Wie is die Moordenaar?, by Pieter Fourie.

Used as the source for Två Människor ("Two People"), a 1945 film by Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer.

Performance history in South Africa

1939: Close Quarters was presented by the Little Theatre Players at the Little Theatre in August, directed by Wensley Pithey.

1964: Performed in Afrikaans as Wie is die Moordenaar? by Pieter Fourie and a student company during university holidays, the cast including himself and Ilse Eybers(and later Christene Basson).

196? Performed in Afrikaans as Wie is die Moordenaar? was presented by the Pieter Fourie Genootskap starring Marie Pentz, Pieter Fourie (who also directed), Fanie Smit and Peter Grobbelaar.

Morten Egholm. 2010. "From Working Class Drama to Academic Showdown: On Carl Th. Dreyer’s Use of His Literary Source in Två Människor [Two People] (1945)", in Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Études Scandinaves Au Canada Vol. 19 (2010) pp.128-143[1]