Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern is the name of two related German plays.

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (17) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ()[], the first version was written in 1773, the second in 1778. The piece was first performed at Schloss Ettersburg on 20 October 1778, with Goethe himself in the roles of the "Marktschreier", "Haman" and "Mardochai". The second version published in 1789.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern () by Peter Hacks (1928-2003)[]

Goethe's original adapted by Peter Hacks (1928-2003)[] as a German comedy also called Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (also found as Das Jahrmarkfest).

A comedy about about the conflict between art and power.

Translated into Afrikaans as Kermis op Koekenmoer by Merwe Scholtz of a sophisticated comedy (Das Jahrmarkfest) about the conflict between art and power by German playwright, author, and essayist .

1983: The translated version, Kermis op Koekenmoer, directed by Peter Kleinschmidt for CAPAB in August, with Mees Xteen, George Ballot and Elsabé Zietsman, each in various roles. Music by Marilyn Taylor, decor and costumes by Dicky Longhurst, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell.

Sources

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Jahrmarktsfest_zu_Plundersweilern#Adaptionen

https://www.eulenspiegel.com/images/verlag/medien/1597-leseprobe-plundersweilern.pdf

Neue deutsche Stücke im Spielplan: am Beispiel von Franz Xaver Kroetz [1] p. 229.

Kermis op Koekenmoer original typescript in Drama Department archives, Stellenbosch University

Kermis op Koekenmoer [original title Das Jahrmarkfest] [Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 2003. 90. 379. Note:Playscript

Kermis op Koekenmoer theatre programme, 1983.

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