Jan F.E. Celliers
Jan F.E. Celliers. (1865-1940). Playwright and celebrated early Afrikaans poet and literary figure.
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Biography
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
A member of the management of the AHTV and founder member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Not exceptionally successful as playwright, but like most of his time wrote to create and supply the new Afrikaans literature with a canon of serious works.
His plays include Liefde en Plig (“Love and Duty”- 1909), Martje (1911), Heldinne van die Oorlog (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and Reg bo Reg (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922).
In 1893 he also recited a dramatic piece called Jan Onverschillig ("Careless John") at a meeting of the Rederykerskamer Onze Taal, in Pretoria.
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Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.6,8, 20, 24, 34-37, 455, 483, 485
P.J. du Toit. 1988. Amateurtoneel in Suid-Afrika. Pretoria: Academica
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