Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ("Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa") is a German tragedy in two acts by Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)[1]

Also known simply as Fiesco .

The original text

Described as "Ein republikanishes Trauerspel" ("a republican tragedy"), the play is based on the historical conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi[2] against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547. It premiered in at the Hoftheaterin Bonn in 1783 and published in Frankfurt and Leipzig by**, 1783.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Fiësko, of De Samenzweering te Genua (a "Republikeinsch treurspel") a number of authors. A version by an unnamed translator was published by P. Meyer en G. Warnars, 1792 (as Volume 22 of Spectatoriaale schouwburg), one by C.M. Plumicke and Iz. de Jongh by Abraham Mars, Amsterdam, in 1800 and yet another version by Jacob Lennep in 1825 by M. Westerman en C. van Hulst.

The German silent film Die Verschwörung zu Genua[3] (1921, directed by Paul Leni) is based on the Schiller play.

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua[4] (A TV version, directed by Theodor Grädler, 1961)

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua[5] (A TV version, directed by Heinrich Koch, 1964)

In 2015 Friedemann Holst-Solbach wrote an opera in three acts called Fiesco[6], based on the play.

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