Das Große Loos

(The highest bid") A German comedy in 1 act by Johann Gottfried Lucas Hagemeister (1791). (Also known in German as Das Lotterieloos.)

The original text

Published in Berlin by Petit and Schöne in 1791.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Het Hoogste Lot by Adriaan Hordijk Verstolk and published in Amsterdam by Jan Helders and Abraham Mars, 1795.

10 October Dienspligt (Iffland) and De Hoogste Lot (Hagemeister);

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Produced in Dutch by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak on 12 September in their own theatre, with the one act comedy De Spraakloze (Von Kotzebue) as afterpiece.

Sources

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14112502994&searchurl=tn%3Dhet+hoogste+lot%26n%3D100121503 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Hagemeister F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p.133.

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