Vader en Zoon
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The original text
A play about the family of Kaiser Frederik Willem I, translated from an unknown German original into Dutch as Vader en Zoon by Jan Hendrik Ankersmit (1825 - 1876)[1], and published in Zwolle by S.H. ten Cate, 1870.
It is not a translation of a number of other works by this title, e.g Roderich. Vater und Sohn by or Vater und Sohn by Gustav Frederik Esmann(1860-1904), performed in German in 1912.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1874: Produced in Dutch as Vader en Zoon by the amateur company Aurora II on 9 April in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, with as afterpiece Een Oude Rat in de Val (J. Schuitemaker).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1870 Dutch translation, Google E-book[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.468
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