Anton Ackermann

Anton Ackermann Geselskap, Die

ANTON ACKERMAN GESELSKAP [COMPANY] An Afrikaans touring theatrical company founded by Anton Ackerman in 1935 as the Ackermann-Nell Geselskap with * Nell as financier. The company included Sannie Uys, whom he renamed Pikkie Uys, Hans Brits (later to be known as Don Siebritz), and Benn Potgieter. The company toured for * years, inter alia with **, Koop my Blomme ("Buy my flowers", Shaw's Pygmalion, 1940), *****

Ackermann-Nell Geselskap, Die. ("The Ackermann-Nell Company").

Founded in 1935 by Anton Ackermann and * Nell (the former the artistic director, the latter the financier).

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